IBM Corp. is bulking up its most profitable division with a $1.2 billion acquisition of business software provider SPSS Inc., a deal that also reflects the power of wealthy technology companies to ...

Editor’s note: Allan Krans is a senior analyst with Technology Business Research. HAMPTON, N.H. – Sitting on an $11 billion pile of cash, and with the recession sapping organic growth from its high ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - IBM plans to buy business analytics company SPSS Inc for $1.2 billion in cash to better compete with Oracle Corp and SAP AG in the growing field of business intelligence.

A successful data-driven organization has to provide the right tools for its data analysts, developers, and business end users. Increasingly, this means leveraging open-source software. The R or ...

International Business Machines Corp. agreed to buy software developer SPSS Inc. for $1.2 billion, expanding Big Blue's software portfolio and adding another deal to the growing list of recent ...

I have run a MLP Neural Network using IBM SPSS software and I got in the report summary the "parameter estimates" (the connections weights, I guess). Report summary ...

For a while, Braintree looked like it might have the potential to be that flagship technology company Chicago long has yearned for. Our Google or Facebook or Amazon. Turns out it wasn't the one, ...

SPSS is the name of a series of software packages used for data analysis. Its main selling point is that it allows scientific researchers, teachers and students to quickly analyze data without needing ...

ARMONK, New York -- IBM is bulking up its most profitable division with a $1.2 billion acquisition of business software provider SPSS, a deal that also reflects the power of wealthy technology ...