The BI Ops platform

Total control over every change in BI.

Let everyone build. Lose nothing. The Motio platform governs the BI content layer: everything anyone creates is versioned, reversible, and audit-ready. No exports, no commits, no behavior change.

Motio for Power BI
app.motio.com/power-bi/governance
Power BIReportVersionv2.14.0
Sales performance, release diffmain ← release/q2
REPORTS TRACKED
248
▲ history on
PENDING CHANGES
6
in review
TO WORKSPACE
gates passed
Deployments by environment

The only governance layer built for citizen developers: everything anyone builds is versioned automatically, history beyond the 90-day window.

Explore Motio for Power BI
01
Power BI
Govern everyone who touches Power BI.
02
Tableau
Every version. Every workbook. Forever.
03
Qlik
Restore the sheet, not the whole app.
04
Cognos
Change Cognos without fear.
What Motio does

Full control for the enterprise. Zero friction for the people building.

Watch one change go throughThis happens for every edit, automatically
Sales dashboardedited by Sarah · just now
versionedinspectedapprovedon the record
Someone edits a dashboard. By the time it reaches production it’s versioned, inspected, approved, and on the record, and nobody had to do anything. What is BI Ops? →
Across all four platforms
The problem

Power BITableauQlikCognos forgets. Auditors don’t.

Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, Cognos: none of them ships with a real way to version, govern, or safely deploy the content people create. As self-service adoption scales, three gaps open on every platform:

01

No version control or change history

No BI platform ships a native, complete way to version its content. Code-first workarounds miss objects and authors, so there is no trustworthy record of what changed.

02

Governance stops at the data layer

The warehouse is governed, but governance falls off exactly where BI and AI copilots operate: the semantic layer. Ungoverned models surface confident, wrong numbers.

03

Manual deployment & sprawl

Simple deployments are easy; real Dev→Test→Prod promotion is manual, error-prone, and slow, while ungoverned self-service creates sprawl no one cleans up.

"Don’t we already have this?"

The tools you already have were built for code, not for BI content.

Why teams choose Motio →
Our BI platform already has versioning.

Native options are pro-code, capped, or paid add-ons: they cover the developer minority and miss the self-service majority. Motio governs everyone.

Our data catalog covers governance.

Catalogs govern data. They don’t govern BI content change, the reports and dashboards people actually decide from.

We’ll build it internally.

Fragile, expensive, and never audit-grade. The next audit or deleted dashboard sets the real price.

Security & governance

Audit-ready by default.

Everything captured, attributed, and reversible. Approval workflows, role-based access, and a complete, exportable history, without a single manual export.

AICPA SOC for Service Organizations
SOC 2 Type II certified. Independently audited, renewed annually. Report available under NDA.
SOC 2
SOC 2 Type II
Independently audited controls, renewed annually.
RBAC
Role-based access
Granular permissions mapped to your existing roles.
Audit
Exportable history
Full, immutable change log for every artifact.
Deploy
Gated promotion
Validation and approval before anything reaches Prod.
One place

Every version across every platform, in one view.

Version history, approvals, deployments, and a complete audit trail across Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, and Cognos, governed from a single control plane.

01
Version history, always on
Every edit captured automatically, restore any prior version in a click.
02
Approvals before production
Controlled Dev→Test→Prod releases with sign-off gates, not manual copies.
03
A complete audit trail
Who changed what, and when: years of provable history, exportable on demand.
app.motio.com/governance/overview
BI OperationsOverviewDeploymentsChange log v2.14.0 · approved
TRACKED REPORTS
2,418
▲ history on
DEPLOYS / WK
156
▲ 18%
OPEN REVIEWS
6
in review
AUDIT COVERAGE
100%
stable
Change activityADDEDEDITEDDEPLOYED
By platform
Power BI46%Tableau28%Qlik · Cognos26%
01
Develop · Zero-touch version control

Every change across your environment, versioned automatically.

No exports. No commits. No new habits for the people building. Motio captures a full version history of every artifact, every edit, and every author: environment-wide, the moment it happens.

Explore Develop
app.motio.com/sales-analytics/timeline
Sales Analytics
PropertiesTimelineArtifacts
environment-wide · live
Versions
1,204
▲ history on
Changes · 24h
214
▲ 18%
Authors
37
environment-wide
Restorable
100%
one click
Recent changes
v7
AdventureWorks Sales
tfecteau@motio.com · 11:01 AM
Changed
v46
Structure Dashboard
jwieck@motio.com · Yesterday
Changed
v1
User Permissions
asarir@motio.com · Yesterday
Added
02
Deploy · Controlled release process

Bundle changes into a release, then ship on your schedule.

Group the objects that belong together into one release, then decide: run it now, schedule it for later, or save it for when you're ready. No more deploying items ad hoc, one at a time, the way native tooling forces you to.

Explore Deploy
app.motio.com/releases/qa-p1-pipeline-reset
Release
QA-P1 Pipeline Reset
26 objects grouped
When to deploy
Run now
Deploy all 26 objects immediately.
Schedule
Pick a date and time.
03/12 · 02:00 AM
Save draft
Keep for when you're ready.
Objects in this release4 of 26 shown
v32
BikeStores-data
tfecteau@motio.com
Ready
v1
Customer Profitability
jwieck@motio.com
Ready
v27
Regional Sales
tfecteau@motio.com
Ready
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Monitor · Metadata Catalog

See what's happening across your whole environment.

Motio's metadata catalog turns every version, edit, and usage signal into a governed dataset, and ships it back to you as live dashboards in your own BI platform. Track edit frequency, usage, and volatility out of the box, or build whatever view your team needs.

Explore Monitor
app.motio.com/catalog/analytical-dashboard
Analytical Dashboard
OverviewUsageVolatility
METADATA CATALOG
Reports
105
▲ 133 changes
Models
60
▲ 61 changes
Dashboards
6
▲ 6 changes
Folders
6
stable
Change activityAddedEditedDeployed
Per object type
Reports57%
Models32%
Other11%
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See Motio in action.

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What customers say
If you don't know what you have, you don't know what you need to take with you. Motio gave us visibility across our whole Cognos estate.
William Tarry
Senior BI Developer, Orthofix
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If you go to a customer, their first question is: how is your change management? We need to have that ourselves.
Jan-Willem van Essen
Manager IT Advisory, Baker Tilly
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Version control gives us the confidence that any change is tracked and we can easily revert. That leads to innovation, to making courageous decisions.
Chirag Shukla
Chief Information Technology Officer, RAS
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Without a tool like Motio, our Cognos deployment was cumbersome. To follow our agile methodology, Motio is definitely a big plus.
Jon Coote
Information Management Team Lead, CIRA
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The automated validation and regression testing proved invaluable, proactively pointing out inconsistencies, errors and performance issues.
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Tim McGuire
VP of Enterprise Development, Ameripath
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Because of Motio, I am no longer restrained by administrative tasks. That frees me to empower people every day, and you can't put a price tag on that.
Sean Bruton
BI Architect, VTCT
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It's like having a perfect memory for our Qlik applications. It's changed the game for us.
Joshua Poole
BI Team Lead, Crider Foods
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We could not manage our environment without Motio. Most importantly, the release team is no longer the bottleneck.
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Richard Wylde
Cognos Analyst, Catlin
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