Who Can You Trust?

Monitor-maker ViewSonic did not see this one coming. A network administrator it once employed was arrested last month for hacking into the monitor-maker’s network and wiping out critical files. It could have been worse. The former employee, Andy Garcia, 39, of Montebello, Calif., could have been more destructive. He also

Making Provisions for Change

With today’s tight corporate budgets, few businesses are committing to the millions of dollars that a full-blown identity-management system can require. This resistance frustrates some integrators and consultants, who predict that companies will pay much more in the end when they finally try to connect all the pieces of software

Gotcha! Watch Your Steps With Scan-Based Trading

Did you know that: Synchronizing data is no baby step The matching of product data moving inside suppliers’ and retailers’ supply-chain systems is required before companies can even think of trading cards for bucks based on scanning bar codes at the checkout lane. This means not just getting product codes

A Year in the Life of a Greeting Card

Janice Travis parks her shopping cart in the card aisle of a sprawling Albertson’s grocery on Stagecoach Road, west of Evergreen, Colo. She drops her coat and purse in the cart, adjusts her glasses on her nose, and squints at the expansive racks of American Greetings cards, looking for the

Mark of a Pro

Two days before Thanksgiving, the Cherokee County (Georgia) Sheriff’s Department recovered the body of Roberto Alvarez from the bottom of a four-acre pond at Towne Lake Hills Golf Club outside Atlanta. He had drowned while attempting to collect errant golf balls that had splashed down between Holes No. 4 and

Stages of a Card’s Life

This Is Your Life THEN THERE WERE TWO Only two giants are still standing in the greeting-card business. Hallmark and American Greetings Inc. garner 45% and 40%, respectively, of the $7.5 billion greeting-card market. A WOMAN’S HEART   Only two giants are still standing in the greeting-card business. Hallmark and

Rich Web Clients

What is it? We’re not talking about wealthy Internet customers. This is about providing computer users with the same “rich” features in their browser that they get with Microsoft Windows. It includes such functions as dragging icons between folders, resizing windows inside the browser, sorting data easily and the like.

Sympathy for Egreetings

“Teen-agers and young people are a hard sell,” muses a former American Greetings executive. “For them to come to a store specifically looking for a greeting card is too much hassle. Sending a greeting card is something they’d rather do on the Internet. The trouble is, they’ve gotten used to

Informatica: Driven to Extraction

Where analytics is seen as a data-output service, Informatica came to the scene playing off its strength on the other end of the data warehouse—the migration technique known as extraction, transformation and load (ETL). Since the quality of any analytics program is innately tied to the quality of the underlying

On Time, for Real

Voice Of Experience: Rick Beers CorningDirector, Supply-Chain TechnologyCorning, N.Y.www.corning.com MANAGER’S PROFILE: At Corning since 1973, Beers has a long history in the manufacturing and supply-chain fields. He oversees supply-chain technology strategy and deployment across Corning’s businesses. Emphasis in the future will be broadened to include business-value modeling. THE REALITY OF