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In This March Issue
IBM Cognos 10 Intelligence Unleashed Launch Event
Video: Why Business Intelligence Projects Fail
BLOG: Designing your BI Comptency Centre
IBM Cognos Customer Case Studies

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Cognos 8 Report Studio

 

When creating a data item in a query in report studio (or editing an existing field) it is sometimes useful to be able to add a comment either for yourself or another developer as to why you have done something. 

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 #/* insert your comments */#

 

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Greetings!

 

Welcome to the March Edition of Synergise.  Frustrated with your budgeting process?  Check out the Customer Case studies section where there are plenty examples of customer sucesses in this space!

 

Also, if you're based in Johannesburg or Cape Town, don't forget to attend the Official South Africa launch of Cognos 10 later this month!  Details below.

 

Happy Reading!

 

Kind regards,

Priscilla and the Team at Synergy BI

IBM Cognos 10 South Africa Launch ... Intelligence Unleashed


At this event, which takes place on the 22nd of March in JHB and 24th of March in Cape Town, you will get to see IBM Cognos 10 in action.
 
 

Register today for this event and see IBM Cognos 10 for yourself. 

Why Business Intelligence Projects Fail 

 
Recent user research results give insight into why BI implementations often fall short of expectations, and how to avoid this happening.
Recent user research results give insight into why BI implementations often fall short of expectations, and how to avoid this happening.

BLOG: Designing your BI Comptency Centre

 
Jill Dyché talks about designing a competency center.
 IBM Cognos Customer Case Studies

 

These case studies focus on Cognos Express. 


Benenden Healthcare Goes Live with IBM Cognos Express Budgeting  and Forecasting
Benenden Healthcare were looking to replace their manual spreadsheet-based budgeting process with a more efficient collaborative solution...  

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Mercury Medical a Healthcare Manufacturer Improves Reporting and Analysis with IBM Cognos Express   

 

 

This paper explains how after choosing IBM Cognos Express Mercury's users can now create the most critical reports that they were previously relying on a Legacy Reporting Platform to produce.  

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McCormick and Schmick's Restaurants Gains New Insight into Dining Trends and Financial Performance with IBM Cognos Express 

This paper explains how McCormick & Schmick's implemented IBM Cognos Express to create a set of automated dashboards that integrated both GL and POS data from the company's individual stores. This helps them drive better decisions based on more complete and current information.

 

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Fast Growing Company, Mayflex, Chooses IBM Cognos Express to Deliver Essential Business Intelligence and Planning Capability.  

This paper explains how Mayflex chose IBM Cognos Express to produce sales budgets and forecasts, and to consolidate balance sheets, profit and loss, and cash flow statements. Continue reading to learn how Mayflex delivered essential business intelligence and planning capability with IBM Cognos Express. 

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