New in MotioCI™ 2.1...

Impact Analysis. This new feature in MotioCI™ 2.1 grants you the power to see the impact of a promotion into an upstream Cognos environment by first testing it in a temporary location.  Diff the successes and/or failures to analyze the impact of the new deployment before you commit to it.

One-click, Automated Deployment. MotioCI™ provides a powerful new feature called Promotion Groups, which enables content deployment to multiple Cognos environments at once (e.g. deploy from QA into 5 production environments, all at once). Admins can associate multiple Cognos Environments with a single Promotion Group, then make the group the target of any promotion.  Flexible options let you promote individual revisions of a single artifact, all artifacts in a given folder, or all artifacts associated with a given baseline (label).  The days of having to zip and promote Cognos artifacts are over.

Promotion History. For increased governance and traceability, MotioCI™ records every promotion made between Cognos environments. The promotion history feature provides a detailed digest of all changes related to any promotion.  See when a promotion occurred, who initiated it, as well as the details on all promoted content in the source and target environments with this new feature.

You now have access to all your Cognos environments with the Unified View feature in version 2.1. Toggle between Cognos  environments and view everything within each instance in one MotioCI™ session.

Make smarter decisions with the Reference Tracking feature.  Expose the complex dependencies between Cognos objects.  Comprehend what will be affected BEFORE you make a change to a Cognos report.  This feature reveals which Cognos objects reference or are referenced by other Cognos objects.

Major features from 2.0...

Studio Integration & Exclusive Locking.    MotioCI™ offers exclusive locking for BI artifacts directly within the IBM Cognos® Studios. From within ReportStudio, a report author can “check-out” a report, make changes to it, then “check it back in” along with comments describing their changes.  Other authors can still view the report and will receive automated messages alerting them to any change of state in the lock. New buttons directly within the Cognos Studios makes it very intuitive for the BI authors to participate in this process.

Version Any Type of Artifact, Anywhere in the Content Store.  The Version Control module in MotioCI™ is like nothing else in the market. Any Content Store object can be automatically versioned.  In addition to BI artifacts such as Reports, Events, and Analysis objects, MotioCI™ can also version Cognos administration objects such as Dispatchers, Report Services and Data Sources, as well as security related concepts such as Groups and Roles.  This versioning can be applied to any area of the Content Store, including both ‘Public Folders’ and ‘My Folders’.

Version Framework Models.  For the first time, IBM Cognos users can have one product to version artifacts inside and outside of the Content Store.

Version All Properties.  Moving far beyond the simple versioning of studio specifications, MotioCI™ can version any property on any object inside of IBM Cognos.  Of the hundreds of properties MotioCI™ can version, a few examples are policy sets, names, descriptions, tool tips, can burst, package path, and owner.

Full Featured Labeling. This feature allows users to identify snapshots of Cognos content.  These labels can then easily be promoted, reverted, and exported for easy release management. 

Integration with Defect Tracking Systems.  MotioCI™ is easily integrated with 3rd party defect tracking systems such as JIRA, IBM Rational ClearQuest, and Trac.   As authors check-in new revisions of BI content, they can conveniently reference tickets in the external defect tracking system, and MotioCI™ will automatically update the ticket to cross reference it with the associated revision in version control.   This cross linkage provides great traceability between defects / change requests and the BI content modifications which occurred as part of their resolution.

Zero-Touch Version Control™.  As changes are made to any IBM Cognos artifact, MotioCI™ automatically tracks these changes and versions the specifications as well as any other altered properties.