“The consulting business may drive sales for a lot of IBM’s own technologies, as well. The company has built up a strong position in business analytics software in recent years, partly through acquisitions. In 2007 it paid $5 billion for Canada’s Cognos, a leader in business intelligence. Last year, IBM broke into business-process optimization with a $340 million acquisition of ILOG, a French company.”
– Michael Trick’s Operations Research Blog : Operations Research is hot at IBM
The Smarter Planet tumblelog is an outgrowth of IBM’s strategic initiative to help a world of smart systems emerge.
To see just the posts related to the “new intelligence” — advanced business intelligence, predictive analytics, decision support and large scale data managment — try this link:
http://smarterplanet.tumblr.com/tagged/new_intelligence
See this primer on Smarter Planet
