Users can run Cognos against data they keep in the IBM cloud, or against data they store on premises. A full commercial version of the online IBM SPSS Modeler will be available within 30 days.

At its Information On Demand conference in Rome, IBM unveiled new software to place the power of predictive analytics into the hands of business users for faster, more insightful decision making.

Given the ever-increasing amount of data companies deal with, not to mention the complexity of that data, analytics and BI become more important. In beefing up its BI offerings, IBM is looking to ...

IBM’s vision of a Smarter Planet combines instrumentation, interconnectivity and intelligence. Without SPSS, Forrester says, IBM would not be able to deliver on this.

IBM's investment in SPSS's breed of data-crunching software is likely designed to tap into business analytics' growth in the midst of the recession. As companies attempt to control costs and use ...