Business Analytics

Get actionable insights to guide decision-making and improve outcomes.

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:


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    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.

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    Predictive and advanced analytics

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

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    Financial performance and strategy management

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

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    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.

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    Analytic applications

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


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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 organization to 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.

Business analytics software

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    IBM SPSS product family

    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.

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    IBM Cognos product family

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

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    IBM OpenPages product family

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

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    IBM Algorithmics product family

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

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