Cognos News & Articles

Last week, we saw that Big Blue had a pretty good quarter in Q4 and a good year overall in 2011. IBM attributed the success to a number of core areas, analytics being one of them. Netezza was one of the purchased products that contributed to the results, and has announced a new release that should help IBM do well in 2012.

What’s new on the iTunes web site may be of interest to IBM Big Data users, especially those with the iPad “second screen” now gaining in popularity among business users. A new app optimized for the iPad, dubbed "Cognos Mobile" from the IBM Business Analytics division is available for free download. The group said its new app makes it easier to explore data on the go with location-aware analytics.

While a significant set of analytics tools is just about mandatory for large enterprises at this point, smaller businesses are heading that way too. To help them on their way, IBM (news, site) has just released an ‘express’ version of their analytics product, Cognos, which it targeted specifically at the SMB space.

For a long time now, users have been asking what Big Blue plans on doing with all the acquisitions in business intelligence and analytics space (news, site) it made.

The release of Cognos 10, which combines social networking, collaboration, analytics and targets mobile workers, goes some way to answering that.

Extending its information management and enterprise content management capabilities once again, IBM (news, site)  has just announced the acquisition of Initiate Systems, a provider of data integrity software for information sharing among healthcare and government organizations.

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 that there was still time for a competing bid.

However, at the close of business last Friday, SPSS announced that it had called a special meeting of shareholders for October 2, for what will be a definitive vote on the US$ 50 a share deal.

IBM has announced that it is to acquire business intelligence and performance management provider Cognos in a US$ 5 bn deal. Big Blue will pay US$ 58 per share for the publicly listed Ottawa company, which will be integrated as a group within IBM’s Information Management Software division. The deal is expected to be ratified by Cognos’ shareholders within weeks.