New York state-based company makes purchase to stay in “business intelligence” software hunt. BOSTON — IBM Corp. is making its largest acquisition ever, a deal announced Monday to buy Cognos Inc. for ...

Gartner put it in perfect perspective when it positioned Cognos as the last remaining pure play $500 million plus business intelligence vendor. Now it, like Hyperion and Business Objects, is gone.

Cognos has rebranded the financial performance management software it gained through the acquisition of Applix earlier this year and provided a road map for the product line Tuesday. “We’re taking the ...

Datawatch Corporation announced it has teamed with IBM to deliver better and faster data access and self-service data preparation to IBM Watson Analytics and IBM Cognos Analytics users. As part of ...