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December 2013
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With 2013 winding down, we know that many of you have shifted your attention to 2014. This month, we bring you many assets to help with your look forward to 2014.

We've seen a chaotic year in our government. We've seen a steady rise in US markets with increasing uncertainty in US consumer markets and cascading concerns starting to be voiced for 2014. Are you prepared for these and other risks? Are you maximizing profits and productivity across your business and continuously looking for innovation in your business processes? Have you tested your business model by analyzing the data in your business?

This month, we're proud to highlight several items that we've been working on since we were with you last month...  
  • Cogent Publishes Case Studies... Telling our story  
  • 34th Annual SIM IT Trends Study... Trends affecting you 
  •  Adding More to the QlikView Story... Getting more from QlikView 
  • Unlock the Power of Self-Service BI...
  • Social Marketplaces Can Generate Cash... But How? ... 

Don't hesitate to let us know if you would like to chat with us on how we can help you use technology to help your business thrive. 

Case Studies Released to Tell Cogent's Story  

Cogent Company has had many successful engagements that have not only informed our teams on how industries are changing but also helped us understand how to adapt our solutions and service offerings to meet our clients needs. To give our prospective and current clients a better idea of what we are up to, we're releasing the following groups of stories about some of our engagements: 

Cogent doesn't offer products. We offer problem solving services. It's hard to describe what we can do. Case studies offer our prospective and current clients some idea of the types of problems we've solved in the past. We look forward to discussing how we can help you at your convenience. You can always reach us at [email protected].  

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34th Annual SIM IT Trends Study Released

The 34th Annual Society for Information Managemet ("SIM") Trends Study was presented at SIMposium 2013 in Boston. 2014 will mark the SIM IT Trends Study's 35th anniversary! There is a wealth of information in the Trends Study about what's going on in IT with budgets, salaries, hiring, investments, cloud, shared services, and performance measurements, as well as what's on the minds of IT leaders and what concerns their organizations. Six hundred and fifty SIM members from 484 organizations participated in the study. The slide deck can be downloaded here

Cogent Partners with nPrinting to Add Value to QlikView Solutions     

Cogent Company is pleased to announce that it has partnered with nPrinting, the most advanced report generation, distribution and scheduling application for QlikView on the market. "Cogent has been offering nPrinting solutions for several months," said Marc Hoppers, Cogent Company's Founder and Managing Partner, "and we've seen the value that it can provide our clients." Click here to learn more.  

Turning Social Networks into Marketplaces 
Cogent's research team has assembled some thinking on the power of social networks in our modern economy. The new social media stats for 2012, according to the social strategist Cara Pring on her blog The Social Skinny some of the new social media stats for 2012 sites get 137.6 million unique visitors per month in the US alone. In 2013 other social networking sites will start providing an ecommerce component and for good reason: 62% of adults worldwide now use social media, and social networking is the most popular online activity. 

Therefore, 2013 has been and will be all about connecting the dots and getting a 360 view of very much empowered customers who want a lot. To find out more about our thinking, click here. To download Cogent's latest research paper on ecommerce and online marketplaces, click here.
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Unlock the Power of Self-Service BI 

Many of our clients are moving towards getting their users to be more self-sufficient in their consumption of data and the use of that data for wise decisions. In a report from Gartner, they say, "The first step to delivering self-service BI is to recognize that 'we're doing it wrong'-and have been for the past decade." This Gartner report goes on to discuss the best practices for firms attempting to move more towards a 'self-service' model for data around decisions.  

 

We would like to make this Gartner report available to you. Please click here to download this report. Then, email us what you think you're doing well and what you could be doing better.   

 

In This Issue
The Power of Stories
Latest IT Trends Study
Adding Value to QlikView
Turning Social Networks into Marketplaces
Unlock the Power of Self-Service BI

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