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CT Event Announcement
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Synergy and IBM Cognos invite you to join fellow
Finance Professionals at our Financial Performance Management event in
which you will learn more about harnessing the potential of technology to develop
a dynamic, risk-based performance management process.
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HOT TIP
Learn how to enable Concurrent Query Execution to
improve report
run performance in Cognos 8.
Hot Tip Provided by Philip Lautenbach, Synergy BI Consultant |
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IBM Cognos Supportlink |
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Featured Articles Plus Techniques from IBM Cognos Support for Supported IBM Cognos Customers. |
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Greetings!
Thank you for subscribing to Synergise.
I do hope that this months newsletter will be both informative and engaging as we focus on the importance of Financial Performance Management and offer additional guidelines and insights into implementing a BI solution that offers the organisation that much spoken about R.O.I.
Enjoy!
Sincerely,
Priscilla Doig
Marketing Manager
Synergy Business Intelligence |
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Financial Performance Management: More relevant than ever |
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The time has probably never been more appropriate for businesses to take into account the importance of financial performance management as part of their arsenal of decision support tools. Since financial performance and the bottom line remains perhaps the most essential indicators of business health, tools that track and report on company-wide fiscal information are indispensable.
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Understand your
client's business to create more value from BI
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Achieving sound value from business intelligence requires more than
just well-designed and deployed software. If we are to assist our
customers to get the most from their BI spend, we need to go a step
further and deliver business consulting over and above technical
deployment.
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An Introduction to Lean Business Intelligence |
 I have yet to meet a business intelligence (BI) team that has too little on its plate. In this article, we will look at some of the drivers creating all this work and offer a set of principles that can be used to become more efficient and effective while still focused on delivering value. |
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The Performance Manager
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The Performance Manager, Proven Strategies for Turning Information into Higher Business Performance, strengthens the partnership between decision-makers and the people who provide the information that drives better decisions.
It suggests 42 decisions areas, or information sweet spots, to help you understand your data, plan, and monitor your performance. Decision areas are organized by eight major company functions (e.g., Finance, Marketing, Sales, HR, IT, etc.), plus an over-arching section for Executive Management. Start on your path towards better performance with The Performance Manager.
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Leading Change in Business Intelligence
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If there was a standard list of core competencies for leaders of
business intelligence (BI) initiatives, the ability to manage complex
change should be near the top of the list. Of course, you need to
understand the business, data, the technologies, architecture, program
management and project management; but if you can't get people on board
with the change and using the information, why bother?
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