IBM Corp. is bulking up its most profitable division with a $1.2 billion acquisition of business software provider SPSS Inc., a deal that also reflects the power of wealthy technology companies to ...

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.

SPSS Statistics is a software package used for statistical analysis. The software name stands for Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), reflecting the original market, although the ...

International Business Machines Corp. agreed to buy software developer SPSS Inc. for $1.2 billion, expanding Big Blue's software portfolio and adding another deal to the growing list of recent ...

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ARMONK, New York -- IBM is bulking up its most profitable division with a $1.2 billion acquisition of business software provider SPSS, a deal that also reflects the power of wealthy technology ...