Newsletter - December 2008
Investment in TM1 can lift barriers and help achieve business potentialFor any business there are usually 6 key opportunities in any BI, planning and forecasting initiative:
In today's market, sentiment is driving focus on productivity - cost control, forecasting, planning and general controllership. More must be achieved with less. Businesses must also better understand and gain intelligence about market conditions and how best to respond. Business intelligence can be the difference between your success and failure and we want to support you in any way we can. For starters, we are offering you the opportunity to undertake a review of your TM1 implementation to ensure that it can support you, your team and your business success. These reviews will be conducted at significant reductions to our usual scheduled rates. National Greenhouse and Energy ReportingThe National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007 was passed in September 2007 establishing a mandatory reporting system for corporate greenhouse gas emissions and energy production and consumption. The first reporting period under the Act commenced July 2008 with reports due in July 2009. Read more about how we can help you control the cost of compliance
Upgrades & Roadmap - Your Options & OpportunitiesIBM Cognos TM1 9.4 has been released and can be downloaded from the Cognos support site for registered customers (userid and password required). For a detailed review of new features read the TM1 New Features Guide. Consider your upgrade options - from version 6, 7, or various flavours of 9 – What are your options and how does this affect you? It’s been a year since the IBM, Cognos & TM1 acquisition. The product road map has much more clarity. What does this mean for your organisation? Now is an appropriate time to discuss the opportunities this may create for you. Please feel free to contact us to find out more.
Einstein, an early adopter of Business IntelligenceEinstein's classic logic puzzle! There are 5 houses and 5 owners. Each owner drinks a different beverage, smokes a certain brand of cigar, and keeps a certain pet. There are 15 further hints. Who owns the fish? It is said that only 2% of us can solve it. Are you up to the challenge? Read all the clues and take the challenge here. We have been providing BI solutions since 1998, so for fun we viewed this as a typical business intelligence or data mining challenge, where all the information required is available, but the means to derive and present the answers is not that obvious. We broke the problem down into the Business Intelligence building blocks - a cube, comprising dimensions with each dimension comprising elements. You have the answer or given up? - Checkout the solution here. Recovery Now! ProgramWe are currently running a program called Recovery Now! While the program probably does not apply to you directly we wanted you to be aware of what we are doing and why we are being public about it. We want you to be aware of this because it is only through your continued loyalty and partnership with us that we are able to offer this program to businesses that are struggling. Recovery Now! offers CALUMO 11.0 product free for an extended period to businesses hardest hit by the credit crunch. As one of few Australian BI software developers we are in something of a unique position to make this offer. As a user of business intelligence, you know the positive impacts it can bring to organisational focus when properly executed. We are being public about the program as a call to action to other companies. Recovery Now! is about Australian business “getting on with it” and helping their colleagues in business. It’s the most effective way we see that we can help companies in acute need. It's about how to assist, and in the process raise optimism and positive sentiment. Australian business needs to continue to act and move forward with a sense of openness and optimism rather than being insular and carrying fear of the unknown. We are confident that other companies, thinking similarly, can devise their own innovative ways to help drive greater optimism across the economy and the community. In summary then, thank you for your ongoing support. Please feel free to raise this program within your own company as a spur to greater optimism. If you would like further information please contact us.
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