IBM SPSS is used for predictive analysis. Results are typically used to predict customer behavior such as fraudulent insurance claims and loyalty program responses. Both researchers and businesses use ...

IBM has made no secret of its ambition to become the world's data-crunching accountant. Now it's beefing up its credentials as a fortune teller. The computing giant on Tuesday acquired SPSS, a Chicago ...

IBM is paying $1.2 billion in cash for SPSS, a company with technology that will bolster Big Blue's business analytics line-up. SPSS makes predictive analytics and data mining software that models ...

IBM (news, site) has just released an upgrade to the SPSS predictive analytics tool that will enable users to analyze text gathered from social media sources, including Twitter, Facebook, blogs, wikis ...