I was at today’s presentation of MotioCI and my initial response is that every one of my Cognos clients needs to have this product. It offers a version control on your entire Cognos Business Intelligence environment, along with other key features such as regression and stress testing. As a consultant, I really like the idea of having a history of Cognos report changes – it gives you a credible record of what changes were made, when, and by whom. This can become a contentious issue when business users ask you where your report changes are, especially if they themselves accidentally overwrote them (reverting to a previous report version is also easily available in MotioCI).

I am looking forward to hearing about MotioCI training opportunities, which should be forthcoming. This is a powerful, extremely useful addition to the Cognos universe.