Baseline articles from May 2003

Baseline archives from May 2003

Gotcha! Making Wireless Communication of Data Work.
May 1, 2003... DID YOU KNOW THAT: ? You need to be sensitive to changing bandwidth In order to manage costs, the mobile application you deploy should be capable of working with a variety of wireless networks, from a WiFi local area network, with its...

Roadblock: The Business Unit CIO.
May 1, 2003... THE OBSTACLE When a diversified company decides to unify technology across business units, power is rearranged. Some people lose it (field executives) and others gain (often the corporate chief information officer). There's plenty of...

The Right ROI Is "Return on Individual".
May 1, 2003... Information is what you gather, distribute and present. Information on the most critical business processes and assets your company has. So products can be sold and decisions made. Obvious, right? Then, ask yourself: What is your...

Symbol Technologies: Takes A Licking.
May 1, 2003... SYMBOL TECHNOLOGIES1 Symbol PlazaHoltsville, NY 11742(631) 738-2400www.symbol.com/mobile TICKER: SBLEXCHANGE: NYSE EMPLOYEES: 6,200 Jerome Swartz Chairman, Chief Scientist Credited with more than 150 patents, he cofounded...

Spin Unspun.
May 1, 2003... "Do more with less." That tag line to Microsoft's ad campaign for its Windows Server 2003 seemed like an apt pitch in an era of tight budgets. After all, it set the bar for how users could expect to apply the new operating system. But when...

SAP's Silent Database.
May 1, 2003... When software giant SAP AG executives went on a road show late last month to pitch investors in New York, London and Hong Kong, the company outlined its "best of suite" strategy, but neglected one part that would interest cash-strapped...

Primer: The Virtual Database.
May 1, 2003... *What is it? A way to manage many different data sources as though they were all in one place. Sometimes called "virtual centralized database" or "federated database." *Who came up with it? Depends on whom you talk to. The desire to manage...

Diagnosis: Disconnected.(Industry Overview)
May 5, 2003... All the health crises since 2001-anthrax, West Nile, smallpox vaccinations and now SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)-are starting to blur together for Dr. Tom Safranek, state epidemiologist for Nebraska. Although SARS, a...

PeopleSoft Aims To Eliminate Middleware.
May 6, 2003... LAS VEGAS--PeopleSoft Tuesday began a process of taking every day tasks away from corporations' information technology staffs, so that constrained budgets could be spent on new software products rather than maintenance and operation of existing...

Workplace Culture and Project Readiness.
May 15, 2003... You're the lead manager on a new enterprise software rollout. The technology won't be hard to implement, but something still worries you. Perhaps it's that the project seems so... covert. Or that three of the business sponsors have already...

Calculating Costs: Standardizing Mobile Sales Systems.
May 16, 2003... You are a consumer packaged-goods giant. Four divisions, hundreds of popular products, hundreds of thousands of employees, $23 billion in annual revenue, respectable operating margins... and unimpressed Wall Street analysts. You can always be...

Fanatical Focus on Integration.
May 22, 2003... Ed Toben knows all too well the conflicts and roadblocks that have stood in the way of efforts to integrate systems at PepsiCo. As the chief information officer of consumer-products giant Colgate-Palmolive, Toben faced many of the same...

MySQL Acquires SAP's Open-Source Database.
May 27, 2003... MySQL AB said Tuesday it will take over SAP's open-source database effort, merging the code to create an enterprise edition under a new brand name. MySQL, an open-source database developer based Sweden, will become a partner of SAP for...

Project Map: Evaluating Project Management Practices.
May 28, 2003... We originally planned this article to show how to set up a project management office. True to the rules of running a project, however, our plans changed once we began refining our scope. We quickly realized that the form a project management...

QUIZ: Do You Need a Virtual Database?
May 29, 2003... Take this quick quiz to assess your company's need for a virtual database. 1. Enterprise portals are key to our corporate strategy. DISAGREE AGREE 1. 2. 3. 4. 2. Our company is active in mergers and acquisitions. DISAGREE AGREE...