Cognos, an IBM company has announced that IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence software is now available, for the first time, for Linux on System z.

As mentioned in the official release, With IBM Cognos 8 BI for Linux on System z, customers can report and analyse transactional systems directly on the mainframe, so workers across an organisation can use information to quickly identify and respond to critical business trends.

"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, 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 organisation to optimise operational processes while reducing infrastructure cost and complexity."