A successful data-driven organization has to provide the right tools for its data analysts, developers, and business end users. Increasingly, this means leveraging open-source software. The R or ...

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 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 ...

Sarcasm, emoticons, slang, and idioms are usually difficult for software to interpret, which makes it tricky for companies to analyze huge amounts of customer feedback through comments, blogs, and ...

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 ...

SPSS, Inc., a global provider of predictive analytics software and solutions, has introduced the latest versions of its data mining workbench and text analytics software products, and renamed them to ...

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, ...

NEW YORK, July 28 (Reuters) - IBM plans to buy business analytics company SPSS Inc for $1.2 billion in cash to better compete with Oracle Corp and SAP AG in the growing field of business intelligence.

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 ...