BOSTON — IBM Corp. is making its largest acquisition ever, a deal announced Monday to buy Cognos Inc. for $5 billion in cash in an effort to keep up with rivals in “business intelligence” software.

IBM’s Cognos 8 business intelligence software is now generally available for System z mainframes running Linux, the company announced Monday. The company announced its plans to port Cognos 8 to System ...

Cognos said the addition of Applix and its products, especially its TM1 OLAP (on-line analytical processing) engine, would strengthen the profitability, customer and product analysis capabilities of ...

Global software developer Rocket Software has announced Rocket Discover 1.5, a self-service query and visualization engine that allows business users to query IBM’s Cognos TM1 cubes and Cognos BI ...

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Cognos is preparing to unplug its business analysis software from the desktop PC and make it mobile, with plans for its first launch on BlackBerry devices in early 2007. The latest push in its plan to ...

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Cognos is extending its wireless business intelligence software to support smartphones using the Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system and the vendor's channel partners say the move will allow ...

Cognos, which IBM acquired in January, has released an update to its business intelligence software that will run on the Linux operating system on IBM System z mainframes. IBM Cognos 8 BI was being ...

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Business intelligence software maker Cognos Inc. Thursday announced it has agreed to acquire privately held Adaytum Inc. Adaytum, based in Minneapolis, makes collaboration software designed for ...

Software maker Cognos on Thursday acquired privately held Adaytum for $161 million in cash to fill out its data analysis portfolio. Minneapolis-based Adaytum has about 1,500 clients of its enteprise ...