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Case study · Cognos

Standardized BI development across two states.

How a major health system brought order and standards to report development across California and Texas.

One of the largest not-for-profit health systems in the United States
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Providence St. Joseph Health
BI Development Team
30 sec
to redeploy content, down from 30 minutes
~$180/day
saved across a 2-year conversion
Check-in/out
stops two developers clashing on a report
The challenge

Providence St. Joseph Health chose Cognos Analytics for its self-service modeling, but its developers, spread across California and Texas, had no reliable source control. Two people could edit the same report at once: the latest version wasn't always the latest, changes were lost, and whole reports were occasionally deleted, with no way to see who changed what. Out-of-sync processes meant constant rework.

The solution

Motio gave them a controlled check-in / check-out workflow (only one person edits a report at a time), plus a required, audited path for promoting reports, datasets, and folders from development to UAT to production. Developers run execution-time and data-validation test cases before content moves down the pipeline, catching issues early.

Redeploying content that was promoted incorrectly took 30 seconds instead of 30 minutes, and version control finally told us who changed what, and when.

Providence St. Joseph Health · BI Development Team
The results
Standardized development, all work happens in Dev, enforced by version control
Redeploying mis-promoted content takes 30 seconds instead of 30 minutes
An audit trail enforcing naming conventions and formatting standards
Roughly $180/day saved over a two-year conversion by eliminating rework

MotioCI is the required method for promoting reports. It enforces our naming conventions, formatting standards and a clean audit trail across every environment.

Providence St. Joseph Health · BI Development Team

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