Baseline articles from September 2002

Baseline archives from September 2002

Calculating Costs of an E-Commerce Site.(Brief Article)
September 4, 2002... This scenario shows the total costs of starting up a Web site for selling products commercially and obtaining payment. The example assumes a company is trying to set up (a) a single corporate site that sells products directly to customers; and,...

Calculating Costs of Implementing an Electronic Medical Data Network.(Brief Article)
September 4, 2002... This chart and timeline show the total costs of implementing a network to exchange medical claims data electronically, from the perspective of a health care provider. The example is based on a midsize hospital that must integrate connectivity,...

Deploying a Supply Chain Management System.(Brief Article)
September 4, 2002... This chart shows the total costs of implementing a system for managing the purchase and move-ment of goods from supplier to consumer. The example is based on a general-merchandise retailer that is integrating a large number of new software and...

Upgrading from SAP R/3 to mySAP.(Brief Article)
September 4, 2002... This timeline and chart show the tasks and labor costs involved in upgrading a core enterprise application system from a client/server architecture to a Web-based one. The example is based on a large manufacturing company that, like Osram...

Cleansing and Migrating Data.(Brief Article)
September 4, 2002... This chart and timeline show the total costs of cleansing multiple databases and migrating the information to a data warehouse. The example is based on a manufacturer that is reengineering its business processes and must upgrade almost all of...

Deciding Whether to Build or Buy Order Management Software.(Brief Article)
September 4, 2002... These charts walk through the process of deciding whether to build a series of ordering applications in-house or to buy them. In this scenario, a continuous-flow manufacturer wants to improve its order fulfillment and inventory-tracking...

Setting Up an Electronic Marketplace.(Brief Article)
September 4, 2002... A group of companies with $40 billion of goods and services to trade wants to cut operational expenses by using an electronic exchange. This hypothetical, independently run marketplace provides supply chain services for a specific industry....

How CIOs Reach the Top.
September 4, 2002... Every year, senior managers participate in a corporate beauty contest--and few technology executives make the final list. A Baseline analysis finds that only 37 chief information officers ranked among the highest paid officers of Fortune...

When IT Success Taps Team Spirit.(Column)
September 9, 2002... I filled a transitional role as chief information officer of SunTrust Banks: I had one foot in the past and one in the future. I really enjoyed being with the people, seeing what they were doing and managing the tangible processes. That's the...

The Disconnected Cop.(New York Police Department's use of IT)
September 10, 2002... Murders in New York had fallen to fewer than 675 in 2000, from 2,262 in 1990. Then, a group of homicidal bombers plowed commercial airplanes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, killing nearly 3,000 people. In an instant, stopping...

The NYPD Player Roster.
September 10, 2002... Raymond W. KellyCommissionerKelly, former senior managing director of global corporate security at Bear, Stearns & Co. and the former commissioner of the U.S. Customs Service, was named NYPD commissioner in January. He set as one of his first...

Cray: Making Good on Flops.
September 10, 2002... The Cray name has always been synonymous with "supercomputer." In fact, up until the early 1990s, close to 80% of the supercomputers in the world bore the name Cray on their massive refrigerated steel hulls. But the market looks much...

The Birth of CompStat.(New York Police Department's statistical system of tracking crime)
September 10, 2002... They just wanted to go home. And they had to figure out what to name the file, before they could close down the computer and head out into the snow. Yet Gene Whyte, John Brancato, Richard Mehia and John Yohe of the New York Police...

NYPD Base Case.
September 10, 2002... Headquarters: One Police Plaza, New York, NY 10038 Phone: (646) 610-5000 Business: The NYPD patrols the five boroughs of New York City. It is the nation's largest police force, with 40,000 sworn members Top Technology Executive:...

Law-Enforcement Tech: Online Resources.
September 10, 2002... Below is a list of links to reports, congressional studies and sites dedicated to understanding and improving the state of the nation's law enforcement technology as it relates to crime fighting, the New York Police Department, the FBI and the...

Gotcha! Extending Existing Systems.
September 10, 2002... Did you know that: If you want to do more with the information in your existing systems, you are opening a can of worms If you want to do more than scrape data off the screen of your older applications and put a Web face on them,...

FBI Bureaucracy Hobbles Tech Adoption.
September 11, 2002... In the same month the twin towers fell, supervisors at the FBI's Computer Analysis Response Team ordered 83 copies of a software program that reveals the contents of images and files deleted from hard drives on personal computers, as well as...

Calculating Costs of Securing a High-Rise Building.(Brief Article)
September 23, 2002... A high rise may seem an oasis of calm compared with the bustle of city streets: The entrances are finite and population controlled; cameras and card readers record movement; and the range of activities taking place is limited. But a basic...