The news is fresh, published today on IBM's site . For a value of $ 1.2 billion IBM has finally reached an agreement for the 'acquisition of SPSS . The acquisition is expected to improve by the year , got the green light by the shareholders.
SPSS with SAS are the only two existing technologies to be included Gartner in the Leaders Quadrant in the Magic for the Data Mining .
The deal follows the one that led last year's acquisition of another major player: COGNOS , according to Gartner, leaders in terms of technology Business Intelligence and Performance Management .
This is not the last a the grease series in the last two years has seen the transformation of the business intelligence market: they are basically disappeared from the market the most important player "pure" BI, through the acquisition part of ERP vendors or large systems integrators (include reference to one of the most sensational or the recent acquisition by SAP of Business Objects).
What technology will be the next to fall independent of the network? We accept bets.
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