Nov. 12, 2007, 8:25 AM EST / Source: The Associated Press IBM Corp. said Monday it plans to buy Cognos Inc. for $5 billion in cash, a deal that could help it keep pace with rivals in “business ...

In a move rumored for months, Big Blue to pay $5 billion in cash for the business intelligence company to fill out its information management portfolio. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering ...

Two of IBM’s most popular analysis products, the Cognos Business Intelligence and the SPSS predictive analytics package, are headed for the cloud, the latest in an ongoing push by IBM to port its vast ...

Following on the heels of two major BI acquisitions this year by Oracle and SAP, IBM has announced the acquisition of Cognos for $5 billion in cash. This is a modest premium of around 9% for Cognos, ...

IBM officially closed its $5 billion acquisition of business intelligence software maker Cognos Inc. at the end of January 2008. In the year since then, the company has transitioned to the heart of ...

IBM is acquiring Cognos, the last major publicly held business intelligence software vendor, for $5 billion, the two companies announced Monday. The move comes near the end of a year that has seen ...