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In This August Issue
Process-Oriented BI: Navigating the Road of Continuous Improvement
Why does data modeling take so long?
IBM Cognos Case Studies
Featured BLOG:...Are you turning Ugly Data Into Cute Information?
Predictive Analytics:...Beyond the Predictions

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Dynamic Date Dimensions in Cognos 10

  

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Welcome to the August Edition of Synergise.   

This edition is packed full of case studies and useful tips and techniques.  

 

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Process-Oriented BI:  Navigating the Road of Continuous Improvement

Defining process-oriented business intelligence is simple. Providing the roadmap for how to achieve process-oriented BI is more complex and requires careful planning and continuous navigation while en route.

 

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Why does data modeling take so long?

Too much of the time spent developing data models is consumed by requirements and business rules.  

 

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IBM Cognos Case Studies

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust, a specialist NHS body responsible for mental health, learning disability and substance misuse services across the North East of England, has invested in a business intelligence and data warehousing system...

 

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ROLAND Rechtsschutz introduces transparency into planning processes with Cognos TM1.

Manual workload reduced by approximately 90 percent...

 

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Find out how California Natural Products (CNP), a world class food manufacturer, was able to cut time used to analyze and report data by 3 weeks as well as cut reporting costs by 50% with IBM Cognos Express ...

 

CNP cuts financial reporting by 20 days with IBM Cognos Express
CNP cuts financial reporting by 20 days with IBM Cognos Express

 

See how Uponor empowers users and cut IT costs by $400,000 annually by leveraging IBM Cognos Express...

 

Uponor cuts $400,000 annually by upgrading to IBM Cognos Express
Uponor cuts $400,000 annually by upgrading to IBM Cognos Express

Featured BLOG:  Are you turning Ugly Data Into Cute Information? 

Jim Harris at Obsessive-Compulsive Data Quality blog writes ...
Defect prevention and data cleansing are two of the required disciplines of an enterprise-wide data quality program... 

Predictive Analytics:  Beyond the Predictions

There are limits to the usefulness of predictive analytics as we have applied them to date. It is no longer sufficient to simply try to predict an unimpeded future. We must hedge our predictions with probabilities and be aware that a variety of reactions to those probabilities might be in order.