IBM doubles down on business analytics

By Ann Bednarz, Network World |  Business, business analytics, business intelligence Add a new comment

January 11, 2011, 5:14 PM — Billions of dollars, millions of man-hours, and thousands of projects at IBM are all focused on the same thing: turning scads of enterprise data into useful information.

IBM has been aggressively building an arsenal of technologies for helping companies get more value out of the data they collect. Just how aggressively? Big Blue spent more than $14 billion to acquire 24 analytics companies over the past five years. Internally, 200 IBM mathematicians focus exclusively on analytics (securing nearly 500 analytics patents for IBM in the process). Out in the field, 8,000 business consultants staff IBM's business analytics and optimization services line, helping clients tackle data-related challenges.

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