Versioning content

Version control is often a requirement within both highly regulated industries and companies that want to incorporate best practices for maintaining their reporting systems. Unfortunately, IBM Cognos BI does not have a way of versioning content out of the box. Integrated Control Suite is a product that was designed for versioning content both inside and outside of IBM Cognos BI. This is a patented solution that is owned and distributed by Avnet (IBM's largest distributor worldwide). Integrated Version Control is a product within this suite that allows the versioning of all objects in the content store, and it has been fully integrated into Cognos Connection. It does so by seamlessly adding additional icons to the IBM Cognos BI studios. Refer to the following screenshot:

Each new icon or button serves a specific purpose. The key thing to note here is that the buttons look like part of IBM Cognos BI and therefore can be implemented seamlessly for end users.

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