BI Ops lifecycle · 05 · Monitor

Every change, attributed and provable.

“BI over BI”: managing the performance, trust, and compliance of reports across the environment, on a complete metadata catalog.

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The lifecycle01 · Plan02 · Develop03 · Test04 · Deploy05 · Monitor06 · Infrastructure
For the BI Executive

Audit-exposed. Wants SOX-ready answers in minutes, not a week of evidence-gathering.

For the BI Ops Engineer

Wants to answer 'what changed?' definitively, and to keep the estate lean.

Complete audit trail

Who, what, when: on record, automatically.

Versioning isn't limited to reports. Models, datasets, permissions, and the folders that hold them are all versioned automatically the moment they change. If it moved, Motio saw it, and you can roll it back.

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
Metadata Catalog

The whole estate, in one governed catalog.

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 change frequency, usage, and volatility out of the box, or build whatever view your team needs.

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%
OOTB Compliance Reports

Proof for the auditors, out of the box.

Ready-made reports we build for you. No setup. Monitor admin distribution across the environment, understand object-level access rights, and flag the over-privileged assignments that put your environment at risk.

app.motio.com/releases/qa-p1-pipeline-reset
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QA-P1 Pipeline Reset
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v32
BikeStores-data
tfecteau@motio.com
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v1
Customer Profitability
jwieck@motio.com
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v27
Regional Sales
tfecteau@motio.com
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Sprawl & cost control

Find unused, duplicated, and abandoned content across the estate and retire it safely, so capacity and licenses go where the value actually…

Trusted analytics & AI

Ungoverned models feed AI assistants the wrong numbers. A governed content layer is what makes BI, and the AI built on it, something you…

Governed self-service

Self-service means everyone's building at once. Because every edit is versioned, the core BI team keeps a live picture of who did what.

Governance Framework

Most tools sell governance as another layer of permissions. Motio doesn't.

Cost Control

Understand where spend is going across the environment, then act on it, before the next capacity bill lands.

AI Interface

Query your version history and metadata in natural language: your estate's memory, on tap.

Safe recovery & rollback

Every version in the history is a safe restore point. Pick any one, days or years back, and restore the live artifact with a single click.

Inspection

Deep, automated inspection of content for errors and inconsistencies, so problems are found by Motio, not by a user on Monday morning.

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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