Baseline articles from March 2003

Baseline archives from March 2003

Can You Trust Your Vendor?
March 1, 2003... For the next year, you're going to be joined at the hip with the consultants redesigning your network. You know they can do the job. But can you trust them with the piles of confidential data you'll be sharing during the project? Defining...

By the Numbers: March 2003.
March 1, 2003... Security in the Web Technology products are increasingly vulnerable to attack, says a recent Symantec report. The Internet security firm documented 2,524 new vulnerabilities last year, 82% more than in 2001. One reason for the uptick may...

DPI Scrambles After Credit-Card Theft.(Data Processors International )
March 6, 2003... When Data Processors International (DPI) revealed in February that an "unauthorized outside party" ran off with more than five million Visa and MasterCard account numbers and expiration dates, it got an instant wakeup call. Not only were...

Calculating Costs: Switching to Scan-Based Trading.(Brief Article)
March 10, 2003... In a typical retailer-supplier relationship, the retailer manages stock it owns--it purchases goods from suppliers and settles discrepancies in inventory, invoices and promotions periodically through the sales cycle. Scan-based trading (SBT),...

Past-Forward.(Agilent Technologies, H&R Block, St. Mary's Mercy Medical Center)
March 12, 2003... Time may heal all wounds, but it doesn't necessarily make for healthy companies. News regarding three of Baseline's recent Case Studies proves that sometimes things get worse before they get better. Poor Agilent Technologies (Case 055,...

Scan-Based Trading Still A Work In Progress.
March 13, 2003... It's electronic commerce come to the checkout counter. Yet if there's any form of conducting business electronically that can change the relationship between retailers and their suppliers, it's trading goods based on the bar codes being scanned...

Project Map: Troubleshooting the Six Sigma Way.(Brief Article)
March 19, 2003... Six Sigma has become a mainstay at some companies as a management approach for improving everyday business processes--but even these proponents still may not have considered its potential in technology departments for software development. ...

Why Real-Time Analytics May Not Pay.
March 24, 2003... SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- Turning your company into a "real-time" enterprise may not be really smart. That is the case, says the consulting firm Gartner, even though one of the few bright spots in corporate spending on technology is putting systems...

Gartner: Half of All Projects Are Doomed.(Brief Article)
March 24, 2003... SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- Half of all projects involving outside consultants fail to deliver what companies expect, according to another survey by the Gartner consulting firm. Gartner released the results of its study on Monday at its Spring...

Gartner CEO: Tech Spending Rebound Next Year.(Michael Fleischer)(Brief Article)
March 25, 2003... SAN DIEGO, Calif.--The technology spending recovery is coming--next year, says Gartner chief executive Michael Fleischer. "We see a high probability of significant improvement coming to the technology sector in 2004," Fleischer told...

SAP Says It's No. 1 for CRM.
March 25, 2003... SAN DIEGO--SAP AG of Germany maintains it has overtaken Siebel Systems as the world's largest seller of customer relationship management systems. That's the contention of co-founder and Chairman Hasso Plattner, expressed in a live...