Steve Mills kicks off IOD'11 press conference

A few facts about IBM's information management and business intelligence activities:

· IBM projects $16 billion in business analytics software and services revenue by 2015.

· Over the past 5 years, IBM has invested more than $14 billion in 25 key acquisitions including Cognos, Coremetrics, Netezza and SPSS.

· Nearly 8,000 IBM business consultants are dedicated to helping clients transform their business.

· IBM is committed to researching advanced analytics technologies as demonstrated by Watson and IBM's $100 million investment to develop new tools towards tackling Big Data challenges.

· Analytics software and services is a cornerstone to IBM's growth with revenue up 17 percent in the second quarter.

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