Business analytics

Make informed and optimized decisions everywhere, to improve outcomes and control risk.

Better understand, anticipate and adapt to drive better business outcomes.

Take the lead with business analytics.

IBM’s comprehensive, unified portfolio of Business Analytics software (Cognos, SPSS, OpenPages and Algorithmics) provides a host of capabilities that help your organisation 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.

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Business Anaytics Software

  • IBM SPSS products

    With IBM SPSS predictive analytics software, you can use statistical analysis, data and text mining, predictive modeling and decision optimisation to anticipate change and take action to improve outcomes.

  • IBM Cognos products

    IBM Cognos business intelligence and performance management software, you have the integrated dashboards, scorecards, reporting, analysis, and planning and budgeting capabilities you need to gain and act on fact-based insights.

  • IBM OpenPages products

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

  • IBM Algorithmics products (link resides outside of ibm.com)

    Algorithmics software enables businesses like yours to gain transparency into financial risks in advance, providing information that is vital to your organisation.

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Better Business Outcomes with Business Analytics

Learn why analytics-driven organizations outperform their peers

Analytics and the Smarter Planet

Get a global view of what can be gained through analytics.

The Power of Analytics Maturity

Achieve better business outcomes by raising your analytics quotient

A Step-by-step Approach to Successful Business Intelligence

Gartner newsletter offers tips for small to midsize businesses

Chartis Research: RiskTech100 2011

New report ranks top firms in risk analytics.

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Become analytics-driven and achieve breakthrough results

Studies show that 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 helps your organization recognize subtle trends and patterns so you can anticipate and shape events and improve outcomes. Not only can you drive more top-line growth and control costs, you can also identify risks that could derail your plans – and take timely corrective action.

IBM business analytics software uniquely enables your organization to apply analytics to decision-making, anytime, anywhere. You can:

  • Tap into all types of information
  • Empower people in all roles to explore and interact with information and deliver insights to others
  • Optimize all types of decisions – whether they’re made by individuals or are embedded in automated systems -- using insights based on analytics
  • Provide insights from all perspectives and time horizons – from historic reporting to real-time analysis to predictive modeling
  • Improve business outcomes and manage risk, now and in the future

  • Business intelligence

    Harness the data explosion, meet your organization’s needs for flexible business intelligence deployment options and satisfy user expectations with powerfully simple analytics you can’t outgrow.

  • Financial performance and strategy management

    Guide management strategy in the most profitable directions with timely, reliable insights, scenario modeling and transparent and timely reporting.

  • Predictive and advanced analytics

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

  • Governance, risk and compliance

    Gain deep insight into all aspects of risk management, including governance, risk and compliance, with an integrated solution that adapts to your organization’s unique risk profile and methodologies.

  • Analytic applications

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


Small and midsize business solutions

Learn how business analytics is helping business of all sizes drive greater efficiencies, manage costs and identify growth opportunities. (US)

Solutions for your industry

See how IBM business analytics software can help your organization compete and win in your industry. (US)

Consulting services

IBM offers business analytics optimization services to help you develop and deploy solutions tailored to your needs.

 

Better Business Outcomes with Business Analytics

Learn why analytics-driven organizations outperform their peers

Analytics and the Smarter Planet

Get a global view of what can be gained through analytics.

The Power of Analytics Maturity

Achieve better business outcomes by raising your analytics quotient

A Step-by-step Approach to Successful Business Intelligence

Gartner newsletter offers tips for small to midsize businesses

Chartis Research: RiskTech100 2011

New report ranks top firms in risk analytics.

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Analytics: The Widening Divide

See how business analytics software helps others outperform

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  • BBVA

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Analytics: The Widening Divide

See how business analytics software helps others outperform

  • City of Dubuque

    Learn how a "most livable small city" conserved water, using analytics

  • BBVA

    Read how social media analytics increased customer satisfaction.

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