In a move rumored for months, Big Blue to pay $5 billion in cash for the business intelligence company to fill out its information management portfolio. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering ...

Rob Ashe, general manager of IBM's business intelligence and performance management unit, has had a busy year. He sold his company, Cognos, to IBM for $5 billion and has stayed on as a member of IBM's ...

Having sealed the deal on the largest acquisition in its history, IBM has moved to show that it has already taken the reigns of Cognos, the number two supplier of business intelligence (BI) and ...

NEW YORK — One week after completing its acquisition of Cognos Inc., IBM today said it was ready with new product offerings that integrate some of its technologies with the business intelligence ...

IBM's Cognos subsidiary announced on Monday that it will make its Cognos 8 business-intelligence software available on the IBM System z mainframe running Linux. Until now, the software has mainly been ...

IBM Corp.’s $5 billion acquisition this week of Cognos Inc. is a watershed event. It marks the third acquisition this year of a best-of-breed business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) ...