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How to Quickly Pinpoint Data Differences in Your Complex Cognos Reports

Motio Skills Session:

How to Quickly Pinpoint Data Differences in Your Complex Cognos Reports

How much time and effort do you spend analyzing the causes for your failed complex Cognos reports? These complex Cognos reports are filled with multiple components (queries, visual containers such as lists, charts, graphs) and the more components that you have, the harder it will be to locate what is contributing to those errors.

In Episode 15 of our Motio Skills Session series, we show you how MotioCI can provide you with insight into exactly where your data differences lie in complex reports. This will save you a lot of time spent on trying to figure out which components are causing your Cognos reports to fail. We’ll cover:

  • Testing the components of your complex reports
  • Pinpointing the data differences of components in your complex reports
  • Using Data Component testing for your Cognos upgrades
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Before Your Cognos Upgrade, Clean Up The Menacing Duplicate Reports

Motio Skills Session:

Before Your Cognos Upgrade, Clean Up The Menacing Duplicate Reports

Are you preparing to migrate over to a new Cognos environment? Before you do, it's important to transfer only the most useful Cognos objects to ensure your new Cognos environment is running strong and efficient. But how do you sift through all the duplicate reports and other unneeded content that has accumulated over the years?

Watch our webinar to explore how ReportCard can locate similar/duplicate reports to minimize the scope of your upgrade.

We’ll cover how ReportCard allows you to:

  • Identify duplicate/similar reports, so you can determine what to keep
  • Maintain Cognos performance optimization before and after the upgrade
  • Minimize the scope of the upgrade when you only move the content worth keeping
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Theia Webinar: Knowledge is Power When You Have the Right Data at the Right Time

Theia Webinar:

Knowledge is Power When You Have the Right Data at the Right Time

Universities of all sizes are facing the challenge of cultivating their data into actions. They need to find data that helps them improve key metrics such as student retention rates, alumni donations, and so on. But with such an abundance of information, how would a university even begin to sift through mountains of reports and spreadsheets to achieve KPIs?

Watch our webinar to explore how Theia can bring your data assets into one seamless experience- allowing you to uncover what will lead you to greater success.

We’ll cover how Theia allows you to:

  • Utilize a single entry point for your university’s data
  • Search and find those elusive data assets hiding in various platforms
  • Look at data from different sources to answer key questions, all in one screen
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Motio Skill Session 13: Streamline Qlik Workflows with Version Control and Deployment

Motio Skill Session:

Streamline Qlik Workflows with Version Control and Deployment

How many times have you spent tweaking and editing an object in Qlik only to find that it doesn’t work? It can be really frustrating to spend time making changes until the object was in its previous state or working as you desired.

In Episode 13 of our Motio Skills Session series, we give you insight into the true value of version control and streamlining deployments for your Qlik environments. We’ll cover how Soterre:
  • Increases your productivity with version control for Qlik
  • Captures changes to any object
  • Visually compares differences between versions
  • Rollback unwanted edits
  • Recover deleted Qlik content
  • Efficiently deploys your Qlik assets from QA to Prod
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Motio Skill Session 12: Curating Information That Matters to YOU

Motio Skill Session:

Curating Information That Matters to YOU

Replay this webinar to learn the benefits of gathering all your sources of data and information together into ONE insight hub. We explain how Theia can help you leverage multiple sources of internal and external data sources. Explore how Theia can help you access all your information for faster decision making.

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Motio Skill Session 11: What You Should Test in Cognos Every Time You Upgrade

Motio Skills Session 11:

What You Should Test in Cognos Every Time You Upgrade

Before upgrading to the newest version of Cognos, how will you manually test hundreds of reports? MotioCI provides test cases which make the upgrade easier. Re-play our webinar to learn which test cases are most useful for upgrades and how to execute them for each quarterly release!

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Cognos Upgrade Testing Cycle

Motio Skill Session 10: The Holistic Approach to Managing Cognos Performance

Motio Skill Session 10:

The Holistic Approach to Managing Cognos Performance

Replay this webinar to see how Motio's ReportCard product monitors user activity and system metrics to determine if issues in Cognos are caused by the users or infrastructure. Learn how to set up notifications, which proactively alert you anytime Cognos performance behavior doesn't meet your expectations.

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Motio Skill Session 9: Achieve Speed & Governance with Automated BI Testing

Motio Skill Session 9:

Achieve Speed & Governance with Automated BI Testing

Self-service BI has been widely embraced but this new freedom given to people outside of IT can result in a negative impact on the Cognos environment.

Replay this webinar to learn how automated testing can prevent environment crashes that disrupt your user community and provide a balance between what IT wants (environmental protection) and what business users want (speedy and accurate reports).

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Motio Skill Session 8: Keeping Up with Cognos Releases (Painlessly)

Motio Skill Session 8:

Keeping Up with Cognos Releases (Painlessly)

Are you stuck on Cognos 10? We have a proven strategy that saves you time and effort on upgrading to Cognos Analytics.

We helped a Fortune 500 company cut their upgrade time from 14 months to 3 months with the use of our software and the methodology that is spotlighted in this webinar!

In this webinar, Eric Smith, from IBM Lab Services and Jeff Dean discuss this strategy that has been part of the IBM campaign to help customers easily upgrade to Cognos Analytics and stay current with the new rapid release cycle that brings you beneficial new features every quarter!

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Security, Search, and Exports: 3 Ways Agni Software Makes Your TM1 Life Easier

Security, Search, and Exports

3 Ways Agni Software Makes Your TM1 Life Easier

This webinar explores the Security Sandbox in Agni® and how it helps improve managing security settings in TM1. It also discusses the benefits of the powerful searching capabilities that quickly retrieve hard to find information and also how to use the exporting feature.

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Motio Skill Session 7: Leveraging the Cognos Audit Database with MotioPI

Motio Skill Session:

Leveraging the Cognos Audit Database with MotioPI

Replay this webinar to learn how to utilize MotioPI to query the Cognos Audit DB in new ways, making your environment more efficient.

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Motio Skill Session 5: Upgrading to Cognos Analytics Made Easier with MotioCI

Motio Skill Session:

Upgrading to Cognos Analytics Made Easier with MotioCI

Replay this webinar to learn a methodology to improve your Cognos upgrade process. In this webinar, we explain how to save money and make a plan prior to your upgrade. See how MotioCI adds a layer of safety, so you can focus on getting the best results instead of worrying about small details.

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MotioCI Reduced Cognos Upgrade Time




Motio Skill Session 6: Cognos BI Tune Ups- Proactive Methods for Better Performance

Motio Skill Session:

Cognos BI Tune Ups- Proactive Methods for Better Performance

Watch this webinar recording if you want to clean up your Cognos environment, but aren’t sure about the process. We’ll teach how to solve Cognos performance issues more effectively. It starts with pinpointing where your issues lie! We’ve shared best practices and how to use ReportCard software to be more proactive in cleaning up your BI.

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Motio Skill Session 3: Successful Strategies for Cognos Deployments

Motio Skill Session 3:

Successful Strategies for Cognos Deployments

Common Cognos deployment methods are inefficient, complex, inflexible, and risk delaying BI assets to your end users. Learn the strategy that MotioCI customers have implemented and achieved the following results:

  • Efficient process with control over what to deploy and when
  • Fully audited deployments with rollback capabilities
  • Timely delivery to end users
  • Reduction in development cycle times
  • Improved quality of deployments
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Motio Skill Session 2: Quickly Solve User Access Problems

Motio Skill Session:

Quickly Solve User Access Problems

Discovering and resolving the user access permissions of an end-user is challenging. Re-play this webinar to learn about the Impersonation feature- a solution that speeds up the debugging process. Covered in this webinar:

  • Bottlenecks around user access problems in Cognos
  • Using Impersonation to debug Cognos access issues
  • See how Impersonation saves time & improves the end user experience
  • Learn why Impersonation is secure and controlled
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Motio Skill Session 1: Testing Cognos Admin Objects

Motio Skill Session:

Testing Cognos Admin Objects

Re-play this webinar to learn how to sharpen your Motio & Cognos testing skill sets. Covered in this webinar:

  • The major administrative components that you should be testing regularly
  • Why continuous testing is good for the company
  • What problems are circumvented by administrative component testing
  • How to set up testing for:
    • Dispatchers
    • Data Sources
    • Security
    • Getting alerts when issues arise
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    MotioCI Cognos Integrated Testing

Enterprise Story Telling: Harmonizing Your Information Assets

Enterprise Story Telling:

Harmonizing Your Information Assets

Replay this webinar for an introduction to Theia software! Theia becomes a smarter way to interpret and share information from multiple information systems simultaneously. This webinar covers-

  • Accelerating people’s adoption of, and satisfaction with information systems
  • Reducing the risks associated with maintenance and migrations
  • Blending information from all your assets to find new and insightful answers
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Take Charge of Cognos TM1 Governance & Documentation

Take Charge of Cognos TM1:

Governance & Documentation

Watch this webinar recording to see how QUBEdocs enhances the already powerful TM1! QUBEdocs improves governance and management of Cognos TM1 with features like automated documentation (and the ability to understand it) and impact analysis. You will see this software in action, and learn how it can save you money, time, and resources.

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Stress Free Authentication Provider Migrations

Stress Free Authentication Provider Migrations

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Watch this webinar recording about namespace migration scenarios in IBM Cognos BI. You'll also see a demonstration of Persona IQ, a technology-assisted service, that is used to make transitions between authentication providers a seamless endeavor.

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Implementing and Managing a Robust Security Model in IBM Cognos BI

Implementing and Managing a Robust Security Model in IBM Cognos BI

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Watch a replay of "Implementing and Managing a Robust Security Model in IBM Cognos BI", a webinar featuring a popular session from the IBM Information on Demand and Insight conferences. This webinar provides best practices for implementing a security model in a Cognos environment, along with how to manage and monitor user activity.

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Client Case Studies

Achieving the most accurate and reliable BI implementations with Motio

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"We had one report author delete a series of reports and could not recover them without restoring the entire Cognos Content Store, thus losing all of the work completed since the last backup. We know how valuable version control is and we knew we had to have it."

—Dustin Jordan,...

"By having MotioCI we directly save 500 hours per year on hiring external specialists, so we actually reduce our out-of-pocket costs."

—Rob Bakker, Eneco

"The relationship with Motio is an integral part of our rapidly expanding BICC, enabling holistic change control and proactive issues resolution on our critical reporting portfolio. It has and will continue to increase end user satisfaction and reduce total cost of ownership of our...

"With the complexity of our user interface, it would have taken us twice as long as it did if we had not started with Motio's software. They worked alongside of us to provide the best user interface for the product and the end results are quite impressive."

—Sheila Higgins, Avaya...

 

"By using MotioCI, we reduced the time to upgrade to Cognos Analytics from 14 months to 3 months!"

— BI Manager, Pharmaceutical Industry

 

 

"MotioCI allows me to test all reports against the outputs of an upgraded environment and know if there are any data differences. This allows us to dramatically shorten the upgrade testing cycle from one to two months to one to two weeks."

—Enterprise Reporting and Analytics...

"Without MotioCI we would be in a situation where we would have to fight fires every day just to make sure things are done according to our requirements."

—Sean Nguyen, Sr. Information Architect, Providence St. Joseph Health

"I know of one instance several weeks ago where a set of reports went missing off the development environment and a ticket was submitted for the BACC support team. We were able to quickly show them how you can just restore the missing reports using MotioCI and their panic was over. It's...

"After we deploy to production, if something was missed in testing, or we have an issue, we can very easily roll back to a previous version using the MotioCI tool."

- Jon Coote, CIRA

"When our Dev content store crashed, we had just implemented MotioCI four months prior. If we had not had MotioCI, we would have been in a really, really bad situation. Right there, it paid for itself. We would have lost months worth of development effort that was only in the Dev environment...

"We could not manage our environment without MotioCI. The release team is no longer the bottleneck. Processes are going smoothly."

—Richard Wylde, Catlin

"Finding a solution which minimized risk and guaranteed that our existing security policies remained intact was very important to us. We were very impressed with the smoothness of the transition."

—Lisa Kelley, HealthPort

"MotioCI is an active insurance policy. It is doing exactly what we wanted it to do."

—Molly Doyle, University of Colorado

"The automated testing provided by MotioCI proved invaluable. With so many reports being created and modified, and the framework model and data sources evolving, it was a huge advantage to have MotioCI proactively pointing out inconsistencies and errors."

—Tim McGuire, Ameripath...

"Our users were wowed by the functionality of MotioADF. The self-service nature of this application has reduced our number of support requests. Even a user with little or no training is able to figure the interface out and immediately become productive."

—Tim McGuire, Ameripath...