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IBM has agreed to buy business intelligence software vendor Cognos for around $5 billion in cash.
The move follows a period of consolidation in the BI and performance management software market, where Oracle bought Hyperion, while Cartesis and ALG Software were snapped up by Business Objects, which is itself being swallowed by SAP. Cognos also bought the much smaller performance management software vendor Applix earlier this year.
What will the deal mean to SAP and other IBM partners?
The move will be a blow to IBM rival HP, which offers a business intelligence and data warehousing platform built using products from Cognos.
IBM intends to integrate Cognos into its Information Management Software division when the deal closes. That should happen in the first quarter of 2008, subject to regulatory approvals and other closing conditions, the companies said Monday.
Cognos CEO Rob Ashe will join IBM to lead the Cognos team there, reporting to the general manager of the IMS division, Ambuj Goyal.
IBM did not say how many of Cognos's other 4,000 employees it planned to retain.
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IBM agrees to buy Cognos for $5BBy meatpieandtatters on November 12, 2007, 8:49 amIBM buys ISS, Cognos and what next? Having reached the end of the line in terms of extracting revenue from their client base they need to continually expand up and...
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