Editor’s note: Due to a clarification from IBM regarding the name of the next version of Cognos software, the headline and some text have been changed since the story was posted. The next major ...

The next major release of IBM’s flagship business intelligence platform, Cognos, will add social networking features, “embed” predictive analytics features from SPSS, but it won’t include a service ...

Predictive analytics, also know as data mining, is used to analyze information such as sales of consumer goods to identify trends and patterns and predict future outcomes. A retail chain could analyze ...