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.

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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 ...

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 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 Inc. is preparing a new software update, Cognos 8 Business Intelligence, that will pull together all of its analytics and reporting tools into one application. The software, scheduled to be ...