Export Development Canada chooses MotioCI to successfully aid in establishing new Cognos Best Practices.
Dallas, TX (December 10, 2007) - Motio Inc., a global leader in BI extensions and customization announced today that EDC, A leader in helping Canadian enterprises manage risk and capitalize on trade opportunities around the world, has chosen Motio to ensure that their Cognos application meets the high level of consistency and accuracy required for their BICC initiative.
Recently, the EDC Business Intelligence team sought out a new and improved version control and testing functionality for their Cognos 8 environment. And in recognition of the growing need for configuration management and Cognos established corporate standards, EDC chose MotioCI to handle its ever important BI reporting content. MotioCI is designed to proactively highlight report problems at an early stage thus enabling report authors to quickly identify and resolve issues - dramatically reducing the time associated with the traditional defect detection, reporting, and re-work phases. MotioCI brings value directly to EDC through its inherent best practices for Cognos BI, and ability to trace the lineage of each report, see its entire revision history and view what portions/changes where made by whom, quickly resolving traditional BI uncertainties.
In addition to version control, MotioCI has also demonstrated value by providing much needed Continuous Integration within EDC's recently established Cognos 8 environment. With the added ability to proactively discover issues and continuously verify reporting content, EDC's team has highlighted visibility into "who's changing what" in the BI environment as a whole at any given time. MotioCI also enables EDC's BI team members to quickly identify root causes for these issues leading to much quicker identification and resolution of issues, increasing both productivity and quality.
"Our purchase was mostly based on the need to have a good change control system in place. MotioCI does this very well and has more functionality than we were looking for, which is an extra bonus." Jim Dorrance, Manager of Business Intelligence, EDC.
When EDC described the need for better BI management, Motio presented the product solution "MotioCI". The recognized leader in extending the functionality of BI platforms such as Cognos, Motio provides a range of products which enable companies to provide tailored BI implementations, integrate with external security systems, and empower BI Competency Centers. As a Cognos Technology Partner, Motio has been helping Cognos customers customize and extend the functionality of their BI implementations for over 5 years. In the maturing BI market, their products and services embed emerging best practices into their clients' BI infrastructures enabling them to achieve best-in-class operations and reduced time and expense.
EDC is Canada's export credit agency, offering innovative commercial solutions to help Canadian exporters and investors expand their international business. EDC's knowledge and partnerships are used by 6,400 Canadian companies and their global customers in up to 200 markets worldwide each year. EDC is financially self-sustaining and is a recognized leader in financial reporting, economic analysis and has been named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers for seven consecutive years.
