Cognos BI for Linux

Cognos, an IBM company, has announced the availability of IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (BI) for Linux software on System z, IBM's brand name for its mainframe computers.

With IBM Cognos 8 BI for Linux on System z, customers can efficiently report and analyze transactional systems directly on the mainframe, so workers across an organization can use information to quickly identify and respond to critical business trends. Highly targeted information delivery and analysis capabilities let knowledge workers, ranging from front line managers to executives, receive strategic business information to make better business decisions through ad hoc queries, dashboards and event management, says IBM.

IBM Cognos 8 BI for Linux on System z is available now from Cognos' partners and is priced at $200 per user subject to volume discounts.