BOSTON — IBM Corp. is making its largest acquisition ever, a deal announced Monday to buy Cognos Inc. for $5 billion in cash in an effort to keep up with rivals in “business intelligence” software.

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Cognos said the addition of Applix and its products, especially its TM1 OLAP (on-line analytical processing) engine, would strengthen the profitability, customer and product analysis capabilities of ...

Global software developer Rocket Software has announced Rocket Discover 1.5, a self-service query and visualization engine that allows business users to query IBM’s Cognos TM1 cubes and Cognos BI ...

IBM executives said they expect a majority of sales of the pre-integrated solutions to go through IBM and Cognos channel partners. They also promised to maintain Cognos's channel program at least ...

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Business intelligence software maker Cognos Inc. Thursday announced it has agreed to acquire privately held Adaytum Inc. Adaytum, based in Minneapolis, makes collaboration software designed for ...

Cognos, which IBM acquired in January, has released an update to its business intelligence software that will run on the Linux operating system on IBM System z mainframes. IBM Cognos 8 BI was being ...

Software maker Cognos on Thursday acquired privately held Adaytum for $161 million in cash to fill out its data analysis portfolio. Minneapolis-based Adaytum has about 1,500 clients of its enteprise ...

Cognos is preparing to unplug its business analysis software from the desktop PC and make it mobile, with plans for its first launch on BlackBerry devices in early 2007. The latest push in its plan to ...

Elie Tahari Ltd., a fashion designer and retailer, credits its IBM Cognos business intelligence software, particularly its business performance management (BPM) features, with helping it boost sales ...

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