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Motio PI Professional is packed with powerful time-saving features. Motio PI Professional adds on to its free counterpart by providing a variety of ways to manage bulk updates to Cognos Analytics, giving you back time and peace of mind against potential mistakes.

Motio PI is a FREE community driven tool which enables Cognos Analytics administrators, report authors and power users to perform everyday tasks that are traditionally tedious and time consuming. Examples include:

• querying for all Cognos Analytics content which matches specified criteria
• documenting all of your users’ security settings
• validating reports after changes have been made to a model
• recovering lost/deleted Framework Models
• documenting schedule recipients.

Motio CI™ integrates with Cognos Analytics through each stage of the business intelligence life cycle-from the initial development process to testing, to deployment and on-going maintenance. Motio CI provides higher performance, quality, and manageability of Cognos Analytics through its unique blend of capabilities inversion control, release management, and automated testing. Avoiding mistakes is crucial for a properly functioning Cognos Analytics environment. But you’re human, and mistakes will happen. Without rollback capabilities, you need to come up with some sort of workaround to be able to access prior versions of BI assets. This might look like saving each revision of a report in a separate folder, creating backups, etc. These methods, however, can bloat the Cognos Analytics environment, are inefficient, and are not a fool proof way to safeguard your BI assets. Motio CI is your protection plan for Cognos Analytics. With its version control feature, you can rollback to any previous version of content, protect your work as you develop, and even recover deleted items

You use IBM Cognos Analytics to help your business to make decisions. But as you can imagine, the more you use it, the more your BI environment degrades. As you add more users, and more reports are accumulating it’s easy to imagine what this does to your BI system. Duplicate reports, reports that are rarely run, and infrastructure problems all lead to a slower, unresponsive environment. Instead of working with slow, laborious Cognos Analytics content, clean it up (and keep it clean) with Report Card. Report Card is a software solution that runs tests (both proactively and actively) on your platform and provides information on how to improve performance. The information delivered is measurable, so you can see exactly when something went wrong

Easily deploy content between environments, and audit or track changes in IBM Planning Analytics. If you would like to resolve the problem of complicated workflows and innocent mistakes becoming roadblocks then Solterre could be just the thing you are looking for.