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Greetings!
Welcome to the May edition of
Synergise.
Synergy's
consulting team has grown from two consultants in 2003 to more than fifty
in 2010. In this newsletter, Morne le Roux, one of Synergy's consultants, offers an interesting
perspective into the day in the life of a BI consultant.
This month's newsletter is jam packed with White Papers - there's sure to be
one of interest to you.
The FIFA World Cup 2010 is just around the corner now. It is wonderful to see the South African
flags flying high and to witness the excitement as we build up to this exciting
occasion. While there will no doubt be
some 'inconveniences' experienced during this time, keep your heads held high
and never lose sight of what a fantastic, once-in-a-lifetime experience this
will be - embrace it in every possible way.
...Ladooma!
Happy reading!
Sincerely,
Priscilla Doig
Marketing Manager
Synergy Business Intelligence |
 | A day in the life of a Business Intelligence (BI) Consultant | |
What's it like being a consultant in the information technology (IT)
industry? That's something anyone considering a career in this
environment should ask themselves. In this article, Morné le Roux,
Senior Consultant, Synergy Business Intelligence provides an interesting
perspective - one which highlights the skills you'll need as well as
the experiences you are likely to have working in the front line of
advanced technology.
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| Business and IT Alignment for BI - Fact or Fiction? |
 ...Can business and IT ever align on BI? Can business ever be satisfied
with IT for delivering successful and effective BI applications? Is
there such a thing as BT (Business Technology, the phrase that Forrester
coined and promotes) in BI? ... |
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Business Intelligence Strategies: Keys to Success
| With business intelligence strategies getting so much attentio n, why is
there a problem with delivering on the promise of BI projects?
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| White Paper: Enterprise Reporting: A Sound Step to Superior Performance
Management |
Report  ing has long been a
core activity for getting valuable information out to users. The time
has come to take it to the next level: to make possible a broader,
richer and higher quality view of the data so users can make important
decisions fast and with confidence. Using enterprise reporting, an
organization can progressively address immediate reporting needs, use
business intelligence (BI) capabilities to acquire greater insight,
extend BI to more users and prepare a platform for the future that
includes the implementation of performance management. |
| White Paper: Strategic Considerations for Evaluating Enterprise Performance
Management Solutions | Learn how those who take advantage of evolving enterprise performance
management solutions will gain a truly sustainable competitive advantage
throu  gh timely access to strategic information. |
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White Paper: Best practice approaches to planning, budgeting, and forecasting
|  As part of an ongoing research program, the Beyond Budgeting Roundtable
(BBRT) teamed with the American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC)
to conduct a study entitled "Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting: A
Best Practices Snapshot."
The study examined five industry-leading
companies that each used markedly different approaches to planning,
budgeting, and forecasting. While each of the companies'
approach was different, the study identified ten best practices that
were continued in and vital to the overall success of these
best-in-class organizations.
This white paper will outline these best
practices and illustrate each lesson learned. |
| White Paper: Spreadsheet-based planning in today's economy: Why you're up against the
wall |
Relying on the unreliable...  Companies spend countless hours each year developing the business plans, forecasts, reports and analyses that they depend on to drive strategic
decisionmaking and manage performance. It is critical that this information be accurate and timely, but it must also be easy to modify, given today's tumultuous
economy. Yet, most organizations continue to rely on spreadsheets, tools that do
not enable planning or managing performance with accuracy, completeness, speed and efficiency.
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