IBM claims to already have BAO offerings. Is there product overlap with SPSS?
For decades, IBM has been continually enhancing the business intelligence capabilities it provides to customers. Today, the company is moving to help customers solve new business challenges and meet the demand for more sophisticated, real-time uses of information. IBM has long provided the underlying information infrastructure that supports business intelligence and performance management solutions. This includes databases and data warehouses to manage data, information integration and master data management to establish accurate, trusted information, and various analytic capabilities for extracting knowledge from unstructured information, mining data to identify patterns and trends, and multi-dimensional analysis. IBMs recent acquisition of Cognos delivers a broad range of BI and performance management capabilities that enable decision makers to gain valuable insights for better, faster decision making. These capabilities include reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboarding and pla
