Monthly Archives: December 2003
A Guide to Data Quality Management
Direct marketers have long reckoned with cleaning dirty databases loaded with duplicate names, misspelled addresses and other shortcomings. Today, companies in more diverse industries—from...
Perception Is Reality
The job of information technology is to inform. This means that IT professionals must be involved in the debate over how IT tools shape...
Making Voting a Simpler Exercise
While Ed Cone, senior writer for Baseline, was deftly delving into the ways that former governor Howard Dean is employing Web technologies to capture...
Sign E-Mail to Regain Control
It makes sense to pull the burden of overcoming spam off users backs and shift the responsibility for spam to senders. I agree that...
Portfolio Management Tools Mature
Like the stars of the night sky, project spending stands out in the enterprise technology budget: Both are obvious targets for observation and analysis...
PeopleSoft, IBM Tightening Supply Chain Links
PeopleSoft Inc. and ibm are taking different routes to help companies manage complex supply chains—the former with a software upgrade, the latter with a...
Analytics Tools Mine Text
With predictive analytics at the core of many marketing initiatives, software developers are adding predictive capabilities to text mining so that enterprises can act...
Benioff Keeps Salesforce.com on Top
In just four years, Salesforce.com Inc.s high-profile chairman and CEO, Marc Benioff, has guided the upstart hosted CRM provider to 8,200 customers, more than...
Oracle Revs Up the Rhetoric
The war of words between Oracle Corp. and PeopleSoft Inc. over Oracles $7.3 billion hostile takeover bid for its enterprise software rival heated up...
Vendors Look to Standardize Product Data
Product lifecycle management software developer UGS PLM Solutions, in conjunction with its major automotive customers, has created JT Open, a community to evangelize the...