When IBM (news, site) announced that they had come to an agreement on the terms of a deal that would see IBM buy out predictive analytics company SPSS for US$ 1.2 billion, some commentators suggested ...

IBM dropped a big bombshell at the start of any already action-packed day for the analyst community. At this moment, I’m sitting, along with several dozen of my peers from Forrester and other firms, ...

IBM is paying $1.2 billion in cash for SPSS, a company with technology that will bolster Big Blue's business analytics line-up. SPSS makes predictive analytics and data mining software that models ...

For a sticker price of $1.2 billion, IBM has purchased SPSS, a company with more than 30 years of experience in the analytics field under its belt. Traditionally, SPSS focused on statistical analysis, ...

At its Information On Demand conference in Rome, IBM unveiled new software to place the power of predictive analytics into the hands of business users for faster, more insightful decision making.

At its Information On Demand conference in Rome, IBM unveiled new software to place the power of predictive analytics into the hands of business users for faster, more insightful decision making.

IBM has agreed to acquire SPSS, a Chicago-based analytics software specialist, the companies said Tuesday. The two have come together quickly: Only last month, IBM announced plans to embed technology ...

IBM has agreed to acquire SPSS Inc., a Chicago-based analytics software specialist, the companies announced today. The two have come together quickly: Only last month, IBM announced plans to embed ...

IBM has made no secret of its ambition to become the world's data-crunching accountant. Now it's beefing up its credentials as a fortune teller. The computing giant on Tuesday acquired SPSS, a Chicago ...

Two of IBM’s most popular analysis products, the Cognos Business Intelligence and the SPSS predictive analytics package, are headed for the cloud, the latest in an ongoing push by IBM to port its vast ...