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 ...

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 ...

IBM (news, site) has just released an upgrade to the SPSS predictive analytics tool that will enable users to analyze text gathered from social media sources, including Twitter, Facebook, blogs, wikis ...

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, ...

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IBM is buying analytics software and solutions provider SPSS in an all cash transaction at a price of $50/share – a 42 percent premium to Monday’s closing price of $35.09 on Nasdaq – resulting in a ...