Greetings!
Welcome to the March edition of Synergise.
In this newsletter, we're proud to share the news of our recent accolade from IBM and to keep you informed as to what Synergy is doing to ensure we continue to offer you great service and support as an IBM partner. If you're a little overwhelmed by the IBM website and where to get all your IBM Cognos information, check out the latest IBM Cognos SupportLink article titled: ' Knowledge Search Best Practices'. I've included a direct link to the article in this months newsletter... I would welcome any feedbackon articles or topics you would like to see included in our newsletter. Happy reading! Sincerely,
Priscilla Doig
Marketing Manager
Synergy Business Intelligence |
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Accolade for Synergy BI |
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Just a year into its relationship with IBM, Cognos specialist Synergy Business Intelligence is already making its presence known by securing the 2009 IBM award for 'Top Business Partner in General Business' category. Cognos was acquired by IBM in 2008.
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Synergy BI re-certifies with IBM Cognos |
Just what kind of effect does the consolidation of vendors have on resellers? In an IT industry characterised by significant merger and acquisition activity in recent years, that's a question which many resellers have had to face up to. In the case of Cognos partner Synergy BI, when IBM took over Cognos in 2008, it was necessary to make several investments in order to maintain its position as a certified Service and Support Partner. These investments, says managing director Christo Bredenkamp, have left Synergy BI better equipped to address the needs of the market.
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Putting the 'I' back into BI
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Just exactly how is business intelligence used in the field? Philip Lautenbach, Senior Consultant at Synergy BI, shares his thoughts
on whether BI investments are
delivering on their full potential, or whether users are merely scratching the
surface and limiting the value that can be created from investments in
the technology.
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The Importance of Being Accurate - Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting: A Critical Business Process |
 ...The pressures on CFOs are increasing in this age of governmental regulations, financial markets and the internal need to provide accurate financial data more quickly. These pressures are rising so much that CFOs are re-examining the structure and operation of their organizations. Beyond their most basic job function of being responsible for all things financial, both internal to the company and external, they are being challenged to partner with operational areas to drive consistency and efficiency across the entire organization. |
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Kimball University: Three ETL Compromises to Avoid |
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Why neglecting slowly changing dimensions, failing to capture metadata and overlooking scope creep can be the undoing of a dimensional data warehousing initiative.
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White Paper: Building the Case for Business Intelligence ROI
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The recent economic conditions have significantly impacted the budgets
of most every business in the world. Even those that are thriving are
more conservative about spending for fear of deeper and extended
recession over the coming months and years.
This has made it more
difficult than ever to gain funding for business intelligence (BI)
initiatives. For these initiatives to garner their fair share of the
limited funding available in this economy, it is important to build a
case that documents how investing in BI addresses not only the common
fears created by this downturn but also how it is critical to capitalize
on the (hopefully) inevitable recovery. This paper describes 6 tactics
to strengthen the case for BI investment in this environment.
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Growing Short-Term Business Intelligence Solutions into Long-Term Success |
Business intelligence (BI) implementations can provide great insight and bring enormous benefits, like sales enhancements or cost reductions, to companies during harsh economic conditions. However, most organizations are only focused on finding solutions to help them get through the immediate business pain rather than working toward the future.
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Do you have a tip or technique you'd like to share with other Synergy BI customers of IBM Cognos products?
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