Choose business analytics to achieve breakthrough results
Organizations that apply analytics outperform their peers. And those with a high "Analytics Quotient" — that is, a broad-based, analytics-driven culture — perform, on average, three times better. Business analytics can help your organization recognize subtle trends and patterns so you can anticipate and shape events and improve outcomes.
IBM business analytics software uniquely enables your organization to apply analytics to decision-making, anytime, anywhere. You can:
- Deliver insight to all your people, in every role
- Support all types of decisions with insights based on analytics
- Equip people with easy access to business analytics both from the desktop and from mobile devices
- Improve business outcomes now and in the future
Business intelligence
Ensure everyone in your organization can easily explore and analyze critical information about the business and quickly transform insight into action. Anytime. Anywhere.
Predictive and advanced analytics
Discover subtle patterns and associations and develop and deploy predictive models to optimize decision-making throughout your organization.
Financial performance and strategy management
Guide management strategy in the most profitable directions with timely, reliable and transparent insights into financial performance.
Governance, risk and compliance
Gain deep insight into all aspects of GRC with an integrated solution that adapts to your organization’s unique risk and compliance methodologies.
Analytic applications
Provide line-of-business managers with actionable insights through packaged analysis and reporting solutions.
- Small Business Solutions
Learn how business analytics can help drive greater efficiencies, manage costs and identify growth opportunities.
- Industry Solutions
See how business analytics software can help your organization compete and win in your industry.
- Consulting Services
IBM offers business analytics optimization services to help you develop and deploy solutions tailored to your organization’s needs.
Take the lead with business analytics.
IBM’s comprehensive, unified portfolio of business analytics software (Cognos, SPSS, OpenPages, Algorithmics and Varicent) provides a host of capabilities that help your organization achieve your objectives and exceed expectations. Based on open standards, IBM business analytics products can be used independently, in combination with each other, and as part of broader solutions to key business challenges.
Featured products
IBM SPSS products (US)
With IBM SPSS predictive analytics software, you can use statistical analysis, data and text mining, predictive modeling and decision optimization to anticipate change and take action to improve outcomes.
IBM Cognos products (US)
IBM Cognos business intelligence and performance management software provides you with the integrated dashboards, scorecards, reporting, analysis, and planning and budgeting capabilities you need to gain and act on fact-based insights.
IBM OpenPages products (US)
OpenPages GRC software allows your organization to manage enterprise operational risk and compliance initiatives using a single, integrated solution.
IBM Algorithmics products (US)
Algorithmics software helps businesses like yours to gain transparency into financial risks in advance, providing information that is vital to your organization.
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IBM Varicent products (US)
IBM Cognos Sales Performance Management (SPM) products deliver measurable improvements in how your organization’s finance, sales, human resources and IT teams operate.
What's new
Discover what's new in Business Analytics (US)
Learn about IBM Analytical Decision Management and other new and enhanced products in the IBM Business analytics portfolio.
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Analytical decision management
- SPSS Analytical Decision Management
- SPSS Analytical Decision Management for Linux on System z
- SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services
- SPSS Decision Management
- Business Intelligence Pattern
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Cognos Analytic Applications
- Cognos Customer Performance Sales Analytics
- Cognos Financial Performance General Ledger Analytics
- Cognos Financial Performance Payables Analytics
- Cognos Financial Performance Receivables Analytics
- Cognos Supply Chain Performance Procurement Analytics
- Cognos Workforce Performance
- Cognos Workforce Performance Talent Analytics
- Cognos Enterprise
- Cognos Enterprise Data Management
- Cognos Enterprise Development and Deployment
- Cognos Express - Overview
- Cognos Insight
- Analytic Answers for Insurance Renewals
- Analytic Answers for Prioritized Collections
- Analytic Answers for Retail Purchase Analysis and Offer Targeting
- Analytic Answers for Student Retention
- Cognos Enterprise
- Social Media Analytics
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SPSS Data Collection
- Author | Trials and Demos (US)
- Author Professional
- Data Entry
- Data Model
- Interviewer Desktop | Trials and Demos (US)
- Paper
- Phone Interviews
- SPSS Data Collection Professional
- Remote Administration
- Survey Reporter | Trials and Demos (US)
- Survey Reporter Developer Kit
- Survey Reporter Professional
- SPSS Data Collection Survey Reporter Publisher
- Web Interviews
- SPSS Modeler
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SPSS Statistics
- SPSS Advanced Statistics | Trials and Demos (US)
- SPSS Advantage for Microsoft Excel
- SPSS Amos | Trials and Demos (US)
- SPSS Bootstrapping | Trials and Demos (US)
- SPSS Categories | Trials and Demos (US)
- SPSS Complex Samples | Trials and Demos (US)
- SPSS Conjoint | Trials and Demos (US)
- SPSS Custom Tables | Trials and Demos (US)
- SPSS Data Preparation | Trials and Demos (US)
- SPSS Decision Trees | Trials and Demos (US)
- SPSS Direct Marketing | Trials and Demos (US)
- SPSS Exact Tests | Trials and Demos (US)
- SPSS Forecasting | Trials and Demos (US)
- SPSS Missing Values | Trials and Demos (US)
- SPSS Neural Networks | Trials and Demos (US)
- SPSS Regression | Trials and Demos (US)
- SPSS SamplePower | Trials and Demos (US)
- Base | Trials and Demos (US)
- Campus | Trials and Demos (US)
- Developer | Trials and Demos (US)
- Faculty Pack | Trials and Demos (US)
- for Linux on System z
- GradPack
- Premium | Trials and Demos (US)
- Professional | Trials and Demos (US)
- Programmability Extension | Trials and Demos (US)
- Server
- Standard | Trials and Demos (US)
- SPSS Text Analytics for Surveys | Trials and Demos (US)
- SPSS Visualization Designer | Trials and Demos (US)
- Algo Asset Liability Management
- Algo Audit and Compliance
- Algo Collateral
- Algo Credit Economic Capital
- Algo Credit Exposure
- Algo Credit Manager
- Algo Financial Modeler
- Algo FIRST for Web Edition on Cloud
- Algo Liquidity Risk
- Algo Market Risk
- Algo OpData on Cloud
- Algo Reconciliation
- Algo Risk
- Algo Risk Reports
- Algo Risk Service
- Algo Strategic Business Planning
- OpenPages Financial Controls Management
- OpenPages GRC Platform
- OpenPages Internal Audit Management
- OpenPages IT Governance
- OpenPages Operational Risk Management
- OpenPages Policy and Compliance Management
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Now that business analytics has gone mainstream, you can find many ways to expand and deepen your own knowledge and share your experience with others.
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Services
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Support
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Training and Certification
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Communities
developerWorks
Resources for users and developers: Tools, training, forums, blogs, community, downloads and technical documentation.
Business Analytics Excellence Center
Blogs
- Business Analytics Blog
News and keen insights on the value and many applications of analytics.
Cognos Communities
- IBM Software ValueNet
Benefits, resources, and support for IBM Cognos partners
- Innovation Center
A forum and resource center for organizations seeking innovative ideas and business practices they can use to improve performance
- International User Groups
A global community for users of IBM Business Analytics solutions
- TechTalk
Valuable, practical insights from IBM Cognos software experts
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