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...Its biggest deal until now was the $5bn purchase of business intelligence company Cognos more than a decade ago....
...He had seen the future: by combining hardware, software and services, IBM would be in the strongest position to sell full solutions for the IT headaches that were becoming a feature of complex modern corporations...
...The list of well-known names in the IT industry that have merged or been bought out in the past few years is long: Business Objects, Cognos, EDS, Hyperion, ISS, JD Edwards, Macromedia, PeopleSoft, RSA Security...
...Cognos 8 BI Analysis for Microsoft Excel 8.2 promises business and financial analysts the best of both worlds: the familiarity of spreadsheets with the power and functionality of BI....
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