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IBM Virtual Finance Forum 2011

June 9, 10am - 4pm ET

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Greetings!

Welcome to the June Edition of Synergise.

As I prepare for each monthly edition of Synergise, I am astounded as to the number of articles, blogs and white papers discussing one major theme - that of 'Why Business Intelligence Projects Fail'. A major topic threading its way through all of these discussions is that of aligning business and IT. At the risk of seeming repetitive, I'll continue to include articles on this topic in our newsletter - I have learnt from being a parent...it'll eventually sink in. Of course I'll also include BI successes - we've always got a lot to learn from those too!

It would be great to include your experiences, comments or suggested topics in the Performance Management space in our newsletter - and don't forget that you can use the links to Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter to have your say.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Kind regards,
Priscilla

	Three Types of Executives in Performance Management
An organization cannot consider embracing analytics-based performance management methodologies without the involvement of its executive team. But what type of involvement from them is needed? Read More>>

IBM Cognos White Papers

Time to Build the "Last Mile" to Full Financial Value

In this white paper David Axson delves into what he considers to be the three key things you should do in 2011 to close the gap and deliver dramatically enhanced value and quality. Set your sights on being able to guide your organization to new levels of competitive differentiation and achievement.

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Three Capabilities to Fuel Today's Dynamic Planning and Forecasting

If you want to move beyond the traditional finance role and play a more visible, pro-active role in supporting business decision making, read this white paper today.

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The Role of IT in Business-Led Data Governance

Kelle O'Neal emphasizes the importance of aligning business and IT so organizations can fully benefit from data management.

	Case Study: Increasing profits, slashing expenses at Primerica
"After seeing IBM Cognos BI in action, we knew it was a great way for us to move forward with our plans, it offered us the full range of business .... " Read More>>

	Case Study: Teachers' Credit Union can make better decisions faster with IBM Cognos enterprise planning software
"Our finance team could see the value of the information they were working with, and they felt that others in the organisation could use it to help them make better, more informed decisions," says Colin Thomas, IT Manager, Teachers Credit Union. "In turn, this would assist us in our product development and improve the services we could offer our members." Read More>>

Case Study: British Arab Commercial Bank enhances insight across the entire business

"Analysts in our finance team had to collect data from all these systems and compile it into complex spreadsheets to calculate even the basic daily, monthly and annual figures," explains Crispian Denby, Chief Financial Officer at BACB. "There was increasing demand for better management information in other areas too, such as customer profitability analysis, and we knew that a spreadsheet-based process simply wouldn't be a practical option. We needed a real business analytics solution."