Computer/IT services giant IBM is buying predictive analytics firm SPSS for $1.2 billion in an all cash transaction that is expected to close later this year. IBM says the acquisition is expected to ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

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.

I attended an event for analysts and media on Tuesday at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, N.Y., where the company launched its Smart Analytics System. However the news of its new ...

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 ...

The next time you choose an emoticon to spice up a comment about a company, product or service online, know this: There’s a chance that a software program is capturing the sentiment expressed by your ...

As it builds more data analytics into its cloud infrastructure, IBM is trying to leverage predictive analytics as a new recruitment tool to help companies find and attract top talent. IBM said it is ...

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.