Abstract: Methods and apparatus to manipulate services in a distributed business intelligence computing environment are disclosed. An example method for service manipulation in a distributed computing environment disclosed herein comprises specifying at a first computing device a dependency relationship between a first service and a second service implementing at least portions of the distributed computing environment, at least one of the first service and the second service operating on a second computing device different from the first computing device, and conditioning invocation of a specified operation to manipulate an operational state of the first service, the invocation of the specified operation being conditioned on the specified dependency relationship between the first service and the second service.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to manipulate services in a distributed business intelligence computing environment are disclosed. An example method for service manipulation in a distributed computing environment disclosed herein comprises specifying at a first computing device a dependency relationship between a first service and a second service implementing at least portions of the distributed computing environment, at least one of the first service and the second service operating on a second computing device different from the first computing device, and conditioning invocation of a specified operation to manipulate an operational state of the first service, the invocation of the specified operation being conditioned on the specified dependency relationship between the first service and the second service.

Abstract: Disclosed systems manage the modification of objects such as automated reports. Access to modified versions of an automated report is controlled during the modification life cycle. A developer checks out a copy of an automated report and stores minor versions of the automated report during modification. A major version of the automated report is backed up and a copy of the modified automated report is transported to a quality control agent, which may be given substantially exclusive access to the modified automated report. Upon the quality control agent indicating the automated report is a quality-compliant automated report, the quality-compliant automated report is transported to a release manager. The release manager is for determining whether the quality-compliant automated report is a releasable automated report.