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Bring DevOps discipline to Cognos.

Change Cognos without fear: tested, versioned, provable.

Cognos runs the reports regulators actually read, yet its lifecycle is the most manual in BI: deployment archives, hand-run testing, risky upgrades, no native version control. Motio has governed Cognos estates for 25+ years: versioned, tested, and provable.

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True version control

Reports, FM models, and packages versioned with diff and instant object-level rollback.

Upgrade assurance

Automated output regression at estate scale, de-risks the #1 Cognos pain.

Retire archive roulette

Approval-gated deployment and content-store hygiene instead of after-hours archives.

What we do for Cognos

Everything you need to manage Cognos content.

Four capabilities that keep your Cognos environment versioned, consistent, and under control, without adding manual effort.

Track Every Change

Changes to reports, dashboards, and data modules are captured automatically, no manual export. Every version carries a timestamp and the user who made it.

+Automatic version history
+Compare any two versions
+One-click restore

Deploy with Confidence

Promote content between environments through repeatable deployment workflows instead of hand-built deployment specifications.

+Ad hoc & release-based
+Approval workflows
+Scheduled deployments

Strengthen Governance

Apply governance policies by Team content folder, strict approvals where it matters, agility where it doesn't.

+Folder-level policies
+Approval gates
+Unused report cleanup

Gain Visibility

Understand activity across your Cognos environment with powerful search, filtering, and consistency analysis.

+Change & usage history
+Search & filtering
+Consistency analysis
Purpose-built tools

Tools built for the way Cognos teams work.

Alongside the platform, Motio makes focused tools that solve one Cognos problem exceptionally well. Each one stands on its own.

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MotioCI

Automated version control & deployment for Cognos.

Eliminate manual effort, reduce errors, and accelerate Cognos releases. MotioCI is the DevOps engine for Cognos: version control, automated testing, and governed deployment with full visibility into every change.

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What it does for you
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Persona IQ

Simplify Cognos authentication & user management.

Persona IQ makes Cognos authentication seamless, secure, and scalable: map users between authentication sources smoothly, avoiding re-implementation and loss.

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MotioCAP

Secure authentication & seamless SSO for Cognos.

MotioCAP integrates Cognos with enterprise identity providers, making authentication and user management simple, scalable, and secure.

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MotioPI Pro

Find, fix, and manage Cognos content with ease.

Powerful search, cleanup, and management tools for your Cognos team.

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What it does for you
All MotioPI Freeware features
Find and Replace within Cognos objects
Security management
Schedule management
Set parameters for reports
Capabilities in depth

Built for the way Cognos teams work.

From first edit to production deploy, Motio fits the tools, environments, and content your Cognos team already uses.

01

Automatic version history

Every change to a report or data module & package is captured automatically, the moment it happens, no manual commits. Each version is timestamped and attributed to its author.

02

Report & model diffs

Compare any two versions and see precisely what moved across report specifications, data modules, and packages, so reviews are fast and nothing slips through.

03

Deployment pipelines

Promote reports across your Cognos environments on repeatable pipelines, with validation gates before anything reaches production.

04

Approval workflows

Route work to the right reviewers. Nothing publishes to your team content folders without the sign-off your governance model requires.

05

One-click rollback

Restore any report to a previous version instantly, recover from a bad edit without recreating lost work.

06

Security & audit

Honor data and package security and capabilities and roles, and keep a complete, exportable record of who changed what, when, and why.

07

Refresh & scheduling

Track and govern schedules and subscriptions alongside content updates, so data operations stay in sync with deployments.

08

Estate cleanup

Find and safely retire unused reports to keep your Team content folders fast, tidy, and under control.

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All of it, on your own Cognos environment.
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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 report, every edit, every author, the moment it happens.

app.motio.com/cognos/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
Deploy · Controlled release process

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

Group the reports that belong together into one release, then decide: run it now, schedule it for later, or save it for when you're ready, instead of promoting content ad hoc, one item at a time.

app.motio.com/motio-cognos/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
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: track edit frequency, usage, and volatility across your team content folders out of the box, or build whatever view your team needs.

app.motio.com/cognos/analytical-dashboard
Analytical Dashboard
OverviewUsageVolatility
METADATA CATALOG
Reports
105
▲ 133 changes
Data modules
60
▲ 61 changes
Dashboards
6
▲ 6 changes
Team content
6
stable
Change activityAddedEditedDeployed
Per object type
Reports57%
Data modules32%
Other11%
Why Cognos teams choose Motio

Manage change with confidence, at any scale.

Reduce risk

Know exactly who changed what, and recover quickly when issues occur, instead of recreating lost work.

Improve release quality

Deploy reports consistently across development, test, and production with repeatable workflows.

Scale governance

Maintain standards across growing Cognos environments without adding manual effort for your team.

See it on your own Cognos environment.

Schedule a demo and see how Motio brings visibility, governance, and confident deployments to your Cognos team.

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What you'll see in 30 minutes
A live report change captured and attributed automatically
A visual diff between two versions, reviewed in seconds
A governed promotion into your Cognos environments
A one-click rollback of a bad edit
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