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The Motley Fool November 13, 2007 Tom Taulli |
Big Blue Adds to Its Software Empire In its latest deal, IBM agrees to shell out $5 billion for software powerhouse Cognos.  |
InternetNews September 5, 2007 Larry Barrett |
Cognos Picks Up Applix For $339M Cognos made a big splash in the competitive business intelligence software sector Wednesday when it announced it would acquire Applix for $339 million in cash.  |
InternetNews February 6, 2008 Kenneth Corbin |
IBM Lays Out Ambitious Cognos Strategy Armed with a long list of new products, IBM executives pitch their plans for taking "information on demand" to the next level.  |
InternetNews September 7, 2006 Michael Hickins |
Cognos Layoffs a Growing Pain For BI Business intelligence applications vendor Cognos announced that it is laying off 6 percent of its workforce.  |
InternetNews November 12, 2007 |
IBM to Buy Cognos For $5 billion IBM said on Monday that it would buy Canadian business intelligence software company Cognos for $5 billion, following a wave of acquisitions in the industry.  |
The Motley Fool October 9, 2007 Tom Taulli |
SAP Goes Big The major business-software company jolts Wall Street with a transformative deal, agreeing to spend $6.8 billion for Business Objects.  |
The Motley Fool April 4, 2007 Tom Taulli |
Why Cognos Loves Oracle With ample momentum in license revenues, and growing opportunities to pick off more customers from Hyperion, Cognos' management may not be interested in selling out right now -- at least, not before it's gained a bit more upside in its shares from Wall Street.  |
InternetNews February 7, 2008 Larry Barrett |
Vendors Jockey For BI Pole Position IBM, SAP and Oracle slug it out for business intelligence dominance. But will customers win?  |
The Motley Fool September 28, 2007 Tom Taulli |
Cognos Loses Some Currency It was a strong quarter, but the software operator suffered from moves in the Canadian dollar.  |
IndustryWeek January 1, 2008 David Blanchard |
Tech Scorecard: The Rich Keep Getting Richer Two of the biggest names in BI have been acquired in recent weeks - SAP picked up Business Objects and IBM acquired Cognos.  |
The Motley Fool June 25, 2007 Tom Taulli |
Cogitating on Cognos There's momentum ahead, despite this quarter's soft numbers. Investors, take note.  |
InternetNews October 13, 2009 |
SAP Beefs Up BI Offering With HP's Help Expanded integration partnership targets Oracle's Exadata 2 offering, bolsters BI scalability.  |
InternetNews March 2, 2007 Clint Boulton |
Will Oracle's BI Buy Stick it to SAP? Oracle's $3.3 billion bid for Hyperion Solutions is another sign of how hot the market for business intelligence software has become.  |
Bank Systems & Technology October 30, 2007 Nancy Feig |
SAP Scoops Up Business Objects to Add Business Intelligence Functionality to its Software How does the latest in business intelligence deals affect the financial services industry?  |
InternetNews October 8, 2007 Erin Joyce |
SAP, Business Objects in $6.7B Merger Enterprise software giant SAP plans to acquire software firm Business Objects in a $6.7 billion deal, a move that vaults SAP ahead of the pack in the growing business intelligence space.  |
InternetNews March 22, 2006 Clint Boulton |
Oracle Makes Intelligence Its Business Oracle is going after the business intelligence market with guns blazing, vowing to target the customer bases of long-time leaders Business Objects and Cognos.  |
InternetNews October 8, 2007 Larry Barrett |
Shareholders, Analysts Pan SAP's Strategic About-Face SAP, which has long lauded the virtue of growing from within, took some heat Monday after paying $6.8 billion to acquire Business Objects.  |
InternetNews May 5, 2009 Alex Goldman |
IBM Acquires Exeros in Data Discovery Buy IBM acquisition of Exeros aims to help companies find relationships between many databases and as many as a million tables.  |
InternetNews February 11, 2008 Judy Mottl |
Greenplum Sees BI As Sweet Market Greenplum, a San Mateo-based startup, is claiming it is now "world's first Internet-scale" database.  |
InternetNews March 1, 2007 Clint Boulton |
Oracle Offers $3.3B For BI Power Hyperion Oracle makes a play for Hyperion to grab a leadership position in the business intelligence space.  |
InternetNews March 13, 2007 Clint Boulton |
IBM's Data-Warehouse Dust Off IBM takes the tuning fork to its business intelligence infrastructure software.  |
InternetNews January 17, 2007 Clint Boulton |
Dashboards Lure Cognos to Lava Cognos this week purchased Celequest, which lets customers access business intelligence capabilities through a hardware appliance and as software-as-a-service.  |
InternetNews May 24, 2005 Clint Boulton |
IBM Blitz Targets Oracle DB Users IBM tries to attract Oracle's database customers with a sales blitz.  |
Insurance & Technology February 3, 2009 Anthony O'Donnell |
Great American Unifies Business Intelligence on IBM Cognos Platform In consolidating systems for enterprise business intelligence, Great American discovers that demonstrating business value is critical to accelerating adoption of a single BI tool.  |
The Motley Fool March 27, 2008 Tim Beyers |
Why Microsoft Might Bid for BI Google is attacking Excel -- by adding analytics, a common feature of what's referred to as business intelligence software, or BI. The assault won't be taken lightly.  |
The Motley Fool June 26, 2007 Mac Greer |
Fool Video: Time for Tech? Is it time to buy tech?  |
InternetNews February 10, 2010 |
IBM Releases Updates to Cognos BI Suite IBM's refreshed Cognos analytics applications to include new scenario-planning options, financial consolidation options and pre-built models to support faster financial analysis.  |
InternetNews July 26, 2010 |
Will SAP's Earnings Renew Investor Optimism? SAP has seen better days and now must find away to break out of its recent stupor to give investors some hope and perhaps regain a bit of its own swagger.  |
InternetNews February 1, 2011 |
IBM Debuts Cognos BI Tool for Midsize Firms IBM updates Cognos business intelligence line with new tool, dubbed Cognos Express Planner, aiming to deliver sophisticated forecasting services.  |
BusinessWeek January 10, 2005 Mara Der Hovanesian |
Cognos: Business Intelligence Never Looked So Smart Earnings rose 42% to a record $34.5 million, or $0.37 cents per diluted share, for Canada's largest software company.  |
InternetNews October 9, 2008 Richard Adhikari |
Microsoft Bundling For BI Microsoft has announced new Business Intelligence technologies designed to help knowledge workers use business intelligence software with more smarts and analytical tools.  |
InternetNews January 29, 2007 Clint Boulton |
Integration's The Rub For New Oracle BI Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition 10g Release 3 features significant new integration with Oracle's broad swath of applications, database software and other components of Oracle Fusion Middleware.  |
The Motley Fool November 30, 2009 Anders Bylund |
Watch Out, Oracle: IBM Is Hungry A small but strategic acquisition shines some light on how IBM wants to tackle the competition.  |
InternetNews July 14, 2004 Clint Boulton |
IBM Gets Smarter with Buy Big Blue pads its business intelligence platform by purchasing analytics software maker AlphaBlox.  |
InternetNews December 27, 2007 Sean Gallagher |
Business Intelligence's Feeding Frenzy Softness in the software market? Think again. While most of the big names have been snapped up by larger vendors, BI won't be cooling down anytime soon.  |
InternetNews December 29, 2010 |
Software Year in Review: Top BI and Analytics Stories of 2010 Business intelligence and analytics have remained hot even as the rest of the economy has cooled.  |
The Motley Fool September 19, 2007 Tom Taulli |
Business Objects Is Buyout Bait? The enterprise software company is again the subject of takeover rumors, after reports that they hired Goldman Sachs to field buyout overtures from five parties.  |
InternetNews November 16, 2009 |
IBM Rolls Out BI for Private Clouds Smart Analytics Cloud will provide more than a petabyte of data to its 200,000 employees.  |
InternetNews October 16, 2006 Clint Boulton |
IBM Introduces Integration Super Server IBM today unveiled a new piece of software designed to help customers integrate applications. The all-in-one Information Server that will come with the company's WebSphere application server and DB2 database.  |
InternetNews October 12, 2007 Larry Barrett |
Oracle Raises Stakes With BEA Offer Oracle is looking to trump SAP, making a $6.7 billion bid for BEA less than a week after its rival paid a similarly hefty sum for Business Objects.  |
The Motley Fool January 22, 2007 Tom Taulli |
Cognos: Dipping Into On-Demand The traditional enterprise software developer is pushing into online delivery. Investors, the prospects for Cognos look promising in 2007.  |
InternetNews September 20, 2010 |
IBM Acquires BI Specialist Netezza for $1.7B IBM remains in aggressive acquisition mode with the all-cash purchase of a leading business analytics firm.  |
InternetNews February 12, 2008 Larry Barrett |
Business Objects Serves Up BI Buffet Business Objects, now an official division within SAP, on Tuesday released the latest version of its business intelligence platform, BusinessObjects XI 3.0.  |
The Motley Fool September 24, 2004 Tom Taulli |
Business Intelligence Not an Oxymoron Cognos' flagship product, ReportNet, is continuing to drive significant growth. Despite a strong quarter, Wall Street's response was ho-hum, as the stock price inched up $0.60 to $34.54.  |
Bank Systems & Technology May 1, 2006 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Oracle's Plan Comes Together The software vendor leverages recent acquisitions for a foray into the business intelligence technology ring with the release of its Business Intelligence Suite.  |
InternetNews September 14, 2009 |
IBM's Cognos Express Targets Mid-Sized Firms IBM is pitching Cognos Express, a streamlined version of its business analytics software designed to be easier to use, easier to deploy, and the right price for companies with between 100 and 1,000 employees.  |
InternetNews January 25, 2005 Erin Joyce |
IBM Acquires Corio in On Demand Play Cash deal adds more consultants to IBM's ranks and weight to its hosted application business lines.  |
InternetNews March 7, 2007 Clint Boulton |
Oracle: Dynasty or Diluted? Oracle's bid for Hyperion is its latest attempt to corner a market. But what will it really accomplish?  |
InternetNews July 28, 2009 |
IBM Talks Up 'Smart Analytics' Strategy IBM puts its business analytics system on an integrated platform that's designed to speed up deployment and deliver data faster.  |
CRM January 1, 2008 James Kobielus |
Quality Really Is Job No. 1 The "single version of the truth" is impossible without tools to ensure data quality.  |