Greetings!
Welcome to the July edition of
Synergise.
Have you taken a look at the IBM Cognos Support Portal? This portal is packed with useful information and you can customise it to your Product interests and support needs.
Happy reading!
Sincerely,
Priscilla Doig
Marketing Manager
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Simple Steps to Becoming an Analytic Organization
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 Not treating data quality as an IT issue and
taking critical enterprise info out of employees' heads are two of the keys...
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Leading metal supplier and
fabricator introduces efficiency,
ease of use to financial planning
with IBM Cognos 8 BI and TM1
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 "IBM Cognos gives us so many opportunities to grow the business. Our
business becomes more complex all the time and daily we are asked to do
more, accomplish more with less. With IBM Cognos TM1 we are able to do
more with more. We can provide the highest level of service to our
customers internally and externally with greater functionality and
efficiency - even though we have fewer resources devoted to reporting
and analytics."
- Dino DePaolis, Finance Director at McNICHOLS
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| Fighting the Tide: IBM/Cognos BI Users reduce overhead, increase Operating Profit
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Aberdeen Group recently examined how
companies of all sizes are using BI tools to adapt to the market pressures of
the worst recession since the Great Depression. They discovered that despite
adverse conditions, some companies are using BI to not just support, but
actually to grow their business through the lean years. The highlight of the report is the performance of IBM/Cognos adopters versus
the industry average. Among larger BI vendors included in the survey, only
IBM/Cognos BI users experienced significant growth of operating profits on
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Kimball University: Extreme Status
Tracking For Real Time Customer Analysis
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 Article by Ralph Kimball
Customer interactions create a wealth
of timely data that marketing departments are eager to exploit. The customer
status fact table provides a central switchboard for using this fast-moving
data.
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Chicago
School to Offer Degree in Predicting the Future
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The Chicago-based DePaul University will offer what it
says is the nation's first master's degree in predictive analysis, the school
announced on Wednesday in conjunction with IBM, which will provide resources
for the program.
"We realized there was a need to create
a program that prepared students in careers in data analytics and business
intelligence," said Raffaella Settimi, an associate professor at DePaul's
College of Computing and Digital Media, who helped craft the program.
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Data Quality is a Business Issue: Getting Back to Basics, Part 1
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 There is a growing trend by
businesses to sponsor IT-led data quality and governance initiatives as
companies extend their end-to-end business processes and expand their business
intelligence and analytic initiatives. Accompanying this trend has been a sharp
increase in information technology (IT) methodology and technology-centric
applications, solutions and initiatives to address data quality and management
concepts. Many of these efforts have met with mixed results.
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