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Dysfunctional Business Intelligence Teams
Information Management Blog:...Those Nasty "Hairball" Analytics Projects
White Paper: Data Driven Marketing
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Welcome to this month's Synergy BI newsletter.

July proved to be an exciting month for Synergy as we were awarded IBM Premier Partner Status - you can read all about this award as well as find out more about the IBM Finance Forum in this edition of Synergise. 
 
Well done to every Synergite involved in helping us attain the impressive IBM Premier Partner status!
Synergy Awarded IBM's Top Partner Status
 
IBM Premier Partner Status LogoSynergy is pleased to announce that it has been awarded IBM 'Premier' partner status, the highest level of accreditation available to IBM Business Partners. 

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Upcoming Event: IBM Finance Forum 2010
 
IBM Finance ForumWhen it comes to information, quality is more important than quantity. In fact, many finance departments are so overloaded with information, they can't effectively gain the insight they need to move their business forward.

Customer's attending the IBM Finance Forum 2010 will discover how to turn that information into insight. 
Dysfunctional Business Intelligence Teams
 
Patrick Lencioni's popular best-selling book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, contrasts the characteristics of dysfunctional and productive teams. It is an easy-to-understand model that reflects the experiences we've had with business intelligence (BI) teams over the last eighteen years.
Information Management Blog:  Those Nasty "Hairball" Analytics Projects: Usually There's A Data Warehouse At The Core
 
Sometimes I feel like Ol' Doc Jim.

As Forrester's lead analyst on data warehousing (DW), my core job often involves diagnosing enterprise analytics practitioners' DW aches and pains. I try to cultivate a reassuring bedside manner and give them something for both immediate and long-term relief from their problems.
 
White Paper: Data Driven Marketing
 
This report examines how organizations are using data to impact marketing performance and marketing effectiveness. It highlights best practices from 272 organizations to identify how best-in-class organizations use data to achieve superior performance.

On-Line demo: Deliver self-service reporting that satisfies casual users and professional report authors
 
See how you can deliver better reporting to more people, and spend less time doing it.
 
These days, it seems that everyone wants reports.  But the last thing you want - or need - is to have to build all of those reports. 
The right reporting solution for IT and your users is IBM Cognos 8 BI Reporting.

Watch this brief demo, and you'll see a solution that's so simple to use, it's intuitive for anyone who is familiar with Windows and knows how to use a Web browser.  Yet it's powerful enough for professional report authors to build, maintain, secure and deploy all the reports they need.
 
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