IBM announced its IBM Information Server software platform has now been extended to bring new scalability, information consistency and performance to IBM System z customers, providing new flexibility to perform information integration directly on the mainframe.

The introduction of <A HREF="http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/22456.wss">IBM Information Server for System z</A> provides a fully integrated software platform that profiles, cleanses, transforms and delivers information from mainframe and distributed data sources, delivering improved business insight without added operational costs.