Business analytics

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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:


  • BI

    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.

  • PA

    Predictive and advanced analytics

    Discover subtle patterns and associations and develop and deploy predictive models to optimize decision-making throughout your organization.

  • Performance Management

    Financial performance and strategy management

    Guide management strategy in the most profitable directions with timely, reliable and transparent insights into financial performance.

  • Risk Management

    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

    Analytic applications

    Provide line-of-business managers with actionable insights through packaged analysis and reporting solutions.


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

  • SPSS

    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.

  • Cognos

    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.

  • OpenPages

    IBM OpenPages products (US)

    OpenPages GRC software allows your organization to manage enterprise operational risk and compliance initiatives using a single, integrated solution.

  • Algorithmics

    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.

  • 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.


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  • Customer Programs

    Customer Programs

    Build stronger relationships with IBM and other IBM customers.

  • Services

    Services

    Get expert services focused exclusively on the business analytics portfolio.

  • Support

    Support

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  • Training

    Training and Certification

    Maximize your software investment with IBM courses.

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