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Ease Cognos upgrades, deployments, version control/change management, reporting, and automated BI testing.

MotioCI

1Overview

MotioCI provides Cognos authors and administrators with new capabilities including: faster upgrades, change management & version control, faster deployments, automated testing, improved cleanup, and analytics asset management.

MotioCI

2Features

Remove the Pain from Upgrading Cognos Analytics

Cognos Analytics gets ever better with each release, but without MotioCI, upgrades can consume weeks of preparation and testing. We simplify your Cognos upgrade so you can enjoy the benefits without the anxiety and loss of time.

Using our Inventory, Version Control, Automated Testing and Mass Update capabilities, your team can:

  • Z Identify and safely delete the cruft
  • ZAutomate and streamline testing and validation
  • ZAccelerate the repairs
  • ZAvoid a production freeze

Safely Eradicate the Cruft from Your Cognos Environment

Your Cognos environment naturally becomes polluted with unwanted or redundant assets over time as users create content. This cruft leads to problems like:

  • ZExtended Upgrade cycles
  • ZTime lost on irrelevant assets
  • ZConfused and Frustrated Users
  • ZBad Business Decisions
  • ZSlower start up times
Your team can quickly and easily — identify and safely delete the broken, unnecessary, or duplicate items — examine for design anomalies and best practices — investigate potential performance issues.

Safely Eradicate the Cruft from Your Cognos Environment

Your Cognos environment naturally becomes polluted with unwanted or redundant assets over time as users create content. This cruft leads to problems like:

  • ZExtended Upgrade cycles
  • ZTime lost on irrelevant assets
  • ZConfused and Frustrated Users
  • ZBad Business Decisions
  • ZSlower start up times
Your team can quickly and easily — identify and safely delete the broken, unnecessary, or duplicate items — examine for design anomalies and best practices — investigate potential performance issues.

Relieve the Anxiety of Cognos Testing

Testing and Validation are constant processes in any analytics implementation; when done manually these processes consume large amounts of time and rarely lead to quality results.  By automating both, we eliminate expensive, interruptive, and stressful manual error prone cycles from your team, enabling them to focus on producing new analytics to run and grow the business.

Automated BI testing reduces:

  • ZErrors
  • ZCost
  • ZCycle and Delivery Times
  • ZBad Business Decisions

MotioCI now effortlessly integrates with Cognos, on average substantially reducing testing duration from weeks to days. This time-saving feature boosts efficiency and instills confidence in your project’s success.

Eliminate the Hassle from Cognos Deployments

Reduce the time, effort, risk, and number of people involved with your deployments.  MotioCI allows you to connect multiple environments and safely promote targeted content between them.  Removing the need for server access to move files provides your team with the ability to make one-click deployments.

We make deployments:

  • ZTraceable
  • ZFlexible
  • ZSelf-Service
  • ZSafe and Reliable

Eliminate the Hassle from Cognos Deployments

Reduce the time, effort, risk, and number of people involved with your deployments.  MotioCI allows you to connect multiple environments and safely promote targeted content between them.  Removing the need for server access to move files provides your team with the ability to make one-click deployments.

We make deployments:

  • ZTraceable
  • ZFlexible
  • ZSelf-Service
  • ZSafe and Reliable

Demystify Changes in your Analytics Implementation

Your business never stops, consequently, neither does your analytics. You must have control and auditability for best practices, especially for self-service use cases.  Our tools allow you to monitor every aspect of the changes made and maintain a sustainable and healthy environment.

Version Control provides:

  • ZChange Management
  • ZCheck-In/Check-Out
  • ZRecovery
  • ZComparison

Don’t Just Git-It

DevOps is more than “Just Git It”. It’s a set of principles that allow developers to create a repeatable, reliable release process. Avoid the pitfalls of inferior free solutions with MotioCI’s capabilities. With MotioCI, developers have the ability to:

  • ZAutomatically capture every change with zero-touch version control
  • ZEvaluate the efficiency of data through testing
  • ZManage analytic resources
  • ZMeet corporate regulations and standards through Git integration

3Case Studies

Read a case study to learn how our customers found success with Motio!

Have No Fear, An Easy Cognos Upgrade Is Here

The team at CoBank relies on Cognos for its operational reporting and main financial reporting system. Keeping Cognos upgraded allows them to maintain integration with their other BI tools and systems. The team consists of 600 business users with a handful developing their own reports in the “My Content” space.

Telus - Agile In Telecommunication

Telus Increases Speed and Efficiency of Cognos Releases

TELUS, a leading national telecommunications company in Canada, had a strong desire to accelerate the growth and performance of their IBM Cognos environments. However, they had hundreds of report…

CIRA transitions to an agile business intelligence methodology

CIRA Chooses MotioCI To Achieve Agile Business Intelligence

The Business Intelligence (BI) team at CIRA uses an agile approach to develop and deliver information to their lines of business. Implementing MotioCI has supported their shift to an agile methodology, enabling CIRA to rapidly push time-sensitive data to its business users. MotioCI has increased the efficiency of the CIRA BI development process and decreased the amount of time required to troubleshoot issues.

IBM BI Agile Self-Service BI Case Study

MotioCI Enables Agile and Self-Service BI at IBM

MotioCI enabled IBM business teams to manage their own content deployments while providing governance.By automating many of the manual administration and support tasks, IBM was able to reduce these costs significantly with MotioCI.IBM Leverages Motio to Save Money…

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Catlin Insurance Group Improves BI Management & Control with MotioCI

Reduced time spent on development and release to production. Enabled governance and control while providing autonomy and self-service. Allowed control over data quality and performance monitoring Improved business user experience with less errors getting passed to…

MotioCI Testing Ensures Accurate and Consistent Data at Ameripath

By providing visibility into “who’s changing what,” MotioCI enabled Ameripath to quickly identify root causes of issues and led to much quicker identification and resolution of issues, increasing both productivity and quality.Ameripath’s BI Challenges Ameripath has…

MotioCI Saves Corrupt IBM Cognos Content Store

MotioCI Saves Corrupted IBM Cognos Content Store at DaVita HealthCare

With the importance of keeping patient data secure, DaVita’s security configuration is a top priority. MotioCI deploys security and configuration settings between environments. This eliminates manually re-creating security configuration settings, which would leave…

CIRA transitions to an agile business intelligence methodology

Providence St. Joseph Health Achieves BI Development Standardization with MotioCI

With MotioCI, Providence St. Joseph Health achieved its standardization and control requirements over report development. This improved their efficiency & consistency in getting accurate data in the hands of its user base.Eliminated broken reports, bad data,…

MotioCI Saves Corrupt IBM Cognos Content Store

CU Saves Time and Money on Debugging with MotioCI

The University of Colorado had a complex BI ecosystem that encountered lots of changes to the environments, and lacked visibility and automation in its deployment and testing methods. CU was spending tens of thousands of dollars, per event, to discover and fix…

Texas Tech University Safeguards Cognos BI Content with MotioCI

Texas Tech University realized the importance of version control in their BI environment when an unfortunate event happened- reports got deleted and the only way to recover them was to restore their entire content store. Unfortunately this content store restoration…

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