IBM PureScale System Links Servers, Software for Business Analytics

IBM is rolling out a new combined hardware and software offering for major enterprise customers like banks, utility companies and brokerage firms that have a serious interest in ramping up their business analytics horsepower — and who are already running their applications in either x86 or mainframe computing environments. Based on IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) Power7…

IBM Updates Cognos Business Intelligence Suite

IBM has rolled out improvements to its IBM Cognos financial analysis applications that it said will help customers keep pace with the lightning-quick macroeconomic events that impact their annual budget and sales projections. The upgrades, released Tuesday for its IBM Cognos TM1 in-memory analysis tool, add support for unlimited, dynamic hierarchies allows for greater flexibility…