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 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...