August 2004 Online Extras

An assortment of articles, presentations and content exclusive to Baseline online.

Calculating costs of an Electronic Document Management System.
Like Cincinnati Children's Hospital, most major health-care operations have some type of electronic medical records (EMR) system. To determine the costs of infrastructure and operations of such a project, download this Baseline Project Planner.

Calculator: The Cost of Upgrading to Gigabit Ethernet
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This Calculator (Tool: The Cost of Upgrading to Gigabit Ethernet) will help you figure out just how much it will cost to upgrade your network to Gigabit Ethernet.

Supplier Relationship Management
Put Bending Toward E-Spending
Supplier-relationship management software can streamline the way an organization buys products and services, by replacing inefficient paper trails and letting it take advantage of price breaks in companywide supplier contracts.

Be sure to check out our Dossiers on three vendors offering supplier relationship management:

• SAP ("No Longer 'Horrible'")
• PeopleSoft ("Takeover Tensions"), and
• Ariba ("Survivor Story").