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Case study · Cognos

Catch BI errors before your users do.

How a national diagnostics leader keeps thousands of evolving Cognos reports accurate with automated, continuous testing.

One of the nation's leading providers of anatomic pathology and molecular diagnostics
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Tim McGuire
VP of Enterprise Development, Ameripath
Continuous
automated regression testing of every report
Proactive
errors caught soon after they appear
400+
pathologists and scientists supported
The challenge

Ameripath runs an extensive diagnostics operation, over 400 pathologists and PhD-level scientists across 40+ independent labs and more than 200 hospitals. In that data-rich, fast-changing environment, BI faced rising demands for accuracy and standards. With reports constantly modified, new ones created, and the framework model and data sources always evolving, the team needed a way to automatically guarantee the consistency and accuracy of BI content, and catch performance issues before users did.

The solution

Ameripath partnered with Motio and used Motio to configure suites of automated regression tests that continually verify the BI environment, checking every report for validity against the current model, conformance to corporate standards, accuracy of outputs, and adherence to performance requirements. Combined with full visibility into who changed what and the lineage of every report, the team could pinpoint root causes fast.

The automated validation and regression testing provided by MotioCI proved invaluable, proactively pointing out inconsistencies, errors, and performance issues.

Tim McGuire · VP of Enterprise Development, Ameripath
The results
Issues discovered proactively, soon after they were introduced
Rapid root-cause identification through who-changed-what visibility
Higher productivity and quality across the BI team
Report lineage and revision history that recovered accidentally modified, overwritten, or deleted content

With so many reports being modified, new reports created, and the model and data sources evolving, it was a huge advantage to have MotioCI continually testing our BI content.

Tim McGuire · VP of Enterprise Development, Ameripath

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