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Jul 28 2009   2:22PM GMT

IBM restarts M&A engine, snaps up SPSS



Posted by: Barbara Darrow
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IBM started up its acquisition push and analytics landgrab this week with a planned $1.2 billion buyout of SPSS.

SPSS, out of Chicago, does statistical and predictive analytics software. IBM launched its business intelligence/analytics push a few years back when it grabbed up Cognos for $5 billion. Cognos had been a close applications partner of IBM Software.

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