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IBM has been on the forefront of business technology since at least the 1950s . The New York state headquartered hardware and software giant employed over 350,000 people in 2018 , achieving revenues of almost $ 80bn . The company ’ s data analysis platform is known as IBM Cognos . Originally the product of Canadian business intelligence company Cognos , the company and its software were acquired by IBM in 2008 . IBM has built on Cognos to incorporate all the mod cons demanded of data analysis : dashboards , source aggregation and AI integration .

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