IBM’s Bet On Business Analytics

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April 20, 2010 from Forbes – “…Cognos was one of the leading makers of business intelligence software, and IBM paid $5 billion for it. IBM wrote another check last year for $1.2 billion to add SPSS, a predictive analytics and data mining company, to what was becoming a growing family of tools for organizing data into useful information. Ashe said IBM’s services arm is also working with 4,000 consultants, getting them to promote better analytics by IBM customers.

What is behind this growth in business analytics? Ashe says it reflects a demand from customers who, after spending years creating systems to record data and transactions, want to get more mileage out of that information. Businesses want information that is more timely and useful, particularly if it can feed directly into growth and profitability…”

180 View – Just about every organization struggles with getting useful information from its ERP system. Yes there are BI tools from some of the ERP vendors but IBM is ERP agnostic.

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