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In Context, by Doug Henschen
Doug Henschen joined Intelligent Enterprise as Editor in 2004 and was named Editor-in-Chief in January 2007. He has specialized in covering the intersection of business intelligence, performance management, business process management and rules management technologies within enterprise applications and architectures. See More by Doug Henschen IBM Takes SPSS for $1.2 Billion
I'm at IBM's research center in Hawthorne, NY, today where a presentation is about to take place on the IBM Smart Analytics System, which is a comprehensive new take on the InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse solutions with prepackacked content such as vertical domain modules and solution accelerators. The bombshell announcement that everybody wants to hear about, though, is IBM's $1.2 acquisition of Chicago-based SPSS. That news was broken this morning by the Wall Street Journal. As the presentations began, Ambuj Goyal, general manager of IBM Information Management, took five minutes to address the big news on SPSS. He began by detailing the acquired company: 1,200 employees, 40 years in analytics and marquee customers including the Center for Disease Control, the Richmond Police Department and Infinity Property & Casualty Corp. among many others. Goyal then made the point that IBM had already OEM'ed SPSS technology to bring predictive analytics into the Cognos portfolio, but he said that by acquiring the company, IBM would be able to embed its technology "across our platform," which I take to include everything from in-database analytics to industry- and solution-specific applications. I'm saving lots of questions for the Q&A (like what will become of SPSS's OEM deal with SAP BusinessObjects?), but we won't get to that for a couple of hours. In the meantime, don't let anybody suggeest that I didn't see this coming from a mile away (or at least seven months ahead of the announcement).  This is a public forum. United Business Media and its affiliates are not responsible for and do not control what is posted herein. United Business Media makes no warranties or guarantees concerning any advice dispensed by its staff members or readers. Community standards in this comment area do not permit hate language, excessive profanity, or other patently offensive language. Please be aware that all information posted to this comment area becomes the property of United Business Media LLC and may be edited and republished in print or electronic format as outlined in United Business Media's Terms of Service. Important Note: This comment area is NOT intended for commercial messages or solicitations of business.
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