Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Jinsong Yu shares deep architectural insights ...

Analytics has emerged as the new focal point for IBM Corp. (NYSE:IBM - News) in 2012.The company looks set to drive significant growth in this fast-growing sector, according to CEO Virginia Rometty.

IBM has upgraded its Watson Analytics cognitive computing solution with a new user interface and a handful of other new features to make it easier to use. Watson Analytics is a cloud service that ...

Last week's launch of Watson Analytics, IBM's cloud-based analytics service based on the Watson cognitive computing platform, was hailed by Big Blue as a big data game changer that would bring data ...

The goal of the analytics system is to improve user access to data science capabilities on private, public and hybrid cloud environments. The system is built with the IBM common Structured Query ...

IBM has announced new business consulting services and software aimed at helping decision makers predict and prevent damaging supply-chain disruptions. The Predictive Asset Optimization solution, ...

IBM has announced the acquisition of Star Analytics, which in turn will give IBM more specialized and more efficient big data collection and analytics tools. IBM has been in the news a lot lately. Not ...

IBM will invest $1 billion to promote Linux development over the next five years as it tries to adapt Power mainframes and servers to handle cloud and big data applications in distributed computing ...

IBM is offering businesses of all sizes the ability to feed data into Watson, promising the supercomputer and Jeopardy champ will churn out predictive analytics and other actionable data to clients ...

IBM has opened a business analytics center in London to focus on services for the U.K.’s financial sector, which drives a major portion of the nation’s economy. IBM said the center’s initial focus ...

IBM has unveiled a business analytics system — a bundle of preconfigured and optimised hardware and software — that aims to help companies cut deployment time. The system, announced on Tuesday, is ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - IBM plans to buy business analytics company SPSS Inc for $1.2 billion in cash to better compete with Oracle Corp and SAP AG in the growing field of business intelligence.