IBM restarts M&A engine, snaps up SPSS
Posted by: Barbara Darrow
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.


