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.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Editor’s note: Due to a clarification from IBM regarding the name of the next version of Cognos software, the headline and some text have been changed since the story was posted. The next major ...

Streamline change management, because requirements and implications of proposed changes will be illustrated before implementation. Accelerate process improvements by drilling down on operational data.

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 ...

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