A result of IBM’s rapid assimilation of its acquisition of Cognos, the product unites the reporting and analysis capabilities of IBM Cognos 8 BI with the power and reliability of IBM System z. This allows organisations across industries to leverage their mainframe investments to improve decision-making and overall business performance.
The availability of IBM Cognos 8 BI for Linux on System z extends IBM’s Information on Demand business strategy, which unifies the company’s software, hardware, consulting and research expertise to help customers gain access to the right information when they need it, along with business insights to address and respond to changing market demands. Further in support of this strategy, IBM has established multiple worldwide System z competency centres 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.
The IBM System z mainframe improves data centre performance and reduces power, cooling costs and floor space requirements with security and automated management and tracking of IT resources.
“System z customers want more users across their organisation making better, faster decisions using their infrastructure platform of choice,” said Leah MacMillan, vice president, BI product marketing, Cognos. “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 organisation to optimise operational processes while reducing infrastructure cost and complexity.”
More than 600 new applications and solutions were introduced for the IBM mainframe in 2007 – bringing the total to more than 4,000 applications available on the System z platform. |
