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In the basement of Automatic Data Processing’s labs in Roseland, N.J., server farms pound on IBM’s WebSphere application server. Even on weekends, when VP of Internet and client/server development Yen-Ping Shan would go to supervise, the payroll-processing company’s servers and the machines throwing transactions at those servers are humming. This
Security Attacks Rise, Breaches Kept at Bay Who’s Attacking? Infrastructure: From Whom to Buy? Fancy Isn’t Frivolous: HTML vs. Text E-mail Web Services Wait Storage Support Sells For a detailed view of this month’s statistics, download the PDF file.
Microsoft on Tuesday plunged into a new software pond—and laid the rumors to rest—when it officially announced plans to field a customer relationship management suite. Microsoft unveiled its CRM strategy a couple of weeks earlier than it had told third-party resellers. Last week, software distributors told Baseline that Microsoft executives
Outside of the few hundred developers at Microsoft who have seen prototypes of Microsoft’s forthcoming MSCRM customer relationship management suite, relatively few have seen what Microsoft’s small- to mid-market offering will look like. But according to copies of some of the MSCRM marketing materials that Microsoft has made available to
Baseline’s coverage of Kmart’s supply chain debacle provoked a welter of letters from readers eager to comment on the discount retailer’s slide into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection: I saw this company in trouble years ago! Employed as a loss-prevention manager for a local store, I became aware of a “manager-laden”
Have IBM and Lotus execs inhaled too much pixie dust? Late in January, Big Blue staged its annual Lotusphere conference at Walt Disney World for customers of its Lotus software unit. Right next door to Epcot, Lotus general manager Al Zollar tried to convince people that Lotus’ strategic value wasn’t
When Microsoft unveils its plans and strategy for its MSCRM customer relationship management software offering next month, the software giant will have a lot of explaining to do. A number of Microsoft’s CRM “partners” say that Microsoft still has not told them of its plans to enter the CRM market.
Is the battle over Web-services development platforms finally poised to move beyond rhetoric and deliver real return on investment? With Microsoft’s official unveiling Feb. 13 of Visual Studio .NET, its long-awaited and long-delayed development-tool suite, the war of words is likely to shift into a new phase. Until now, developers
Click here for PDF schematic of NEHEN’s network The founders of the New England Healthcare EDI Network (NEHEN) quickly realized that the prospect of overhauling legacy systems would present a considerable barrier to their charter: creating a system for exchanging medical data that complied with the Health Insurance Portability and
Emotional intelligence in a business leader is one of those qualities that’s easy to recognize but hard to define. This may be because it’s not so much a single quality as a facility for motivating people and effecting change within an organization. Following are 18 competencies that comprise emotional intelligence,