IBM Unveils Cognos Business Intelligence Software for System z | | 2008-06-30 | | IBM’s business intelligence (BI) subsidiary Cognos has released its Cognos 8 software for System z mainframes running Linux.
The package enables customers to report and analyze transactional systems directly on the mainframe, allowing workers across an organization to use information, identify, and respond to critical business trends.
IBM claims the product improves data centre performance and reduces power, cooling costs and floor space requirements with security and automated management and tracking of IT resources.
A result of IBM’s rapid assimilation of its acquisition of Cognos, the product unites the proven reporting and analysis capabilities of IBM Cognos 8 BI with the power and reliability of IBM System z. This allows organizations across industries to leverage their mainframe investments to improve decision-making and overall business performance.
In support of this strategy, IBM has established multiple worldwide System z competency centers to help customers learn about IBM Cognos 8 BI on System z, benchmark the System z architecture and interact with other IBM products and solutions.
"System z customers want more users across their organization making better, faster decisions using their infrastructure platform of choice," said Leah MacMillan, vice-president, BI Product Marketing, Cognos, an IBM Company. "With IBM Cognos 8 BI for Linux on System z, these customers will be able to take advantage of the broad range of proven BI capabilities for all types of users across the organization to optimize operational processes while reducing infrastructure cost and complexity."
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