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In This March Issue
Efficient Summary Reporting
Synergy BI's Graduate Programme
White Paper: When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Need Insight!
Technical Trends Shaping Business Intelligence
 
HOT TIP
 
Learn how to Set a Date Prompt to have a Different Default Date in Cognos 8 Report Studio
 
Hot Tip Provided by Andrew Klein, Synergy BI Consultant.
 
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Featured Articles Plus Techniques from IBM Cognos Support for Supported IBM Cognos Customers. 
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Efficient Summary Reporting
 
Dirk Grobbelaar
According to Dirk Grobbelaar, Senior Consultant at Synergy BI, Summary reporting is obviously necessary and provides much needed insight into the performance of the organization. However, the one major and persistent issue related to summary reporting is the time taken to produce the results.
 
In this article, Dirk looks at some options one can consider to speed up the time taken to produce the summary reporting results.
 
Synergy BI's Graduate Programme
 
From the recent survey taken at our IBM Cognos 8 v 4 Technology Update session, it became apparent that not many of our customers are aware of Synergy BI's Graduate Programme, now in its 5th year...
 
                         Graduate Programme
 
White Paper:  When the Going gets Tough, the Tough Need Insight
Performance Management in a Weak Economy

 
There are no times like tough times to make the case for performance management software. This white paper reviews the many hurdles faced by organizations in a down economy and explains how performance management solutions- such as those from IBM- can provide the kind of deep information and insight that decision-makers need to lead their companies through critical challenges.
 
Technical Trends Shaping Business Intelligence 
 
There is no better example of the power of technology to shape behavior than business intelligence (BI). The use of business intelligence to inform, analyze and enable has been the driving force behind the use and expansion of this powerful tool for managing information. Technology, however, never stands still, and there are many interesting trends, at all layers of the BI technology stack, that will shape business intelligence in the near future.  

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