Dramatically Cut Costs with Motio™ ReportCard

ReportCard identifies unnecessary and duplicated reports that cause potential performance issues. Reduction of report count and improvement of report performance results in time savings. In addition, ReportCard pricing is over 60% less than the alternative.

ROI scenarios from ReportCard:

*We'll assume that the alternative documentation cost to ReportCard is:  $30 per hour, per resource (a conservative estimate)

After using ReportCard you've eliminated a number of reports as well as increased the report performance, giving back 15 minutes per day for each business user:  

The cost of training new IT employees is a direct factor to the number of reports, the cost savings using ReportCard are shown in the calculation below:

Training new business users also directly correlates to the number of reports, here's the calculation:

 *The above examples are based on assumed variables

About ReportCard:

• ReportCard is a cloud-based tool that gathers analytics about your BI Implementation.
  • Identify inefficiencies hindering overall performance
  • Determine the overall state of your BI environment
  • Measure BI outputs against company standards 

How does ReportCard do it?

• ReportCard comes with a series of community-driven rules to grade your reports, such as 
  • Find query counts
  • Find reports without prompt pages
  • Match reports on duplicate queries
  • Find reports with the same name, etc.
• Upload a Cognos export archive (zip file) to test
• Select any number of rules which should be applied to your Cognos content
• Execute
• Analyze the results and create a plan for improvement

ReportCard benefits:

• Pro-active method of identifying issues before they become serious problems during critical periods
• Remove space-wasting content in Cognos by determining its quality and value to the BI environment
• Reduce time & budget costs by eliminating redundancies
• Collaborative user community expands rules and contributes the latest testing needs for the BI space
• A cloud-based application means a safe and secure SaaS offering that allows analysis on day one

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Creating a ReportCard Test Suite

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ReportCard Rules Details 

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