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• NSW Waratahs to use predictive analytics during 2014 season

  The New South Wales Waratahs rugby union team will be using a predictive analytics system to help anticipate player injuries and prevent them happening in 2014.

• RightShip sets sail with big data

  Melbourne-based third party ship vetting agency RightShip is redeveloping its online ship vetting information system (SVIS) with business analytics software from IBM.

• Former research analyst charged in IBM insider trading case

  U.S. authorities have charged a former research analyst at a financial services firm with insider trading offenses related to the 2009 acquisition of software vendor SPSS by IBM.

• Deloitte Australia to retain staff using SPSS analytics software

  Deloitte Australia is hoping to reduce staff turnover by identifying employees who are likely to leave the firm through the use of predictive analytics software.

• Predictive analytics pays off for Australia Post

  Manual cash flow forecasts are a thing of the past for Australia Post with the implementation of two software packages which crunch data to produce accurate daily, monthly and annual forecasting reports.

• IBM points predictive analytics at social Web

  The next time you choose an emoticon to spice up a comment about a company, product or service online, know this: There's a chance that a software program is capturing the sentiment expressed by your smiley or frowny for analysis.

• Tech industry's biggest M&A deals of 2009

  The top 10 mergers and acquisitions in the network industry in 2009 all cracked the billion-dollar barrier, and involved vendors in hardware, IT services, collaboration, storage, wireless infrastructure and other segments. IT behemoths such as Oracle, Cisco, Dell, HP, EMC and IBM were among the biggest spenders.

• SAS CEO unfazed by IBM analytics challenge

  If SAS Institute CEO Jim Goodnight is feeling pressured by IBM's recent US$1.2 billion purchase of rival predictive analytics vendor SPSS, he's not showing it.

• Analytics weakling IBM pumps up with SPSS buy

  IBM's US$1.2 billion purchase of SPSS Corp. will immediately turn IBM from pretender into contender in the high-end analytics and data mining market, say analysts, and could leave rivals such as SAP AG or Oracle Corp. ruing a missed opportunity.

• IBM to pay $US1.2B for analytics developer SPSS

  IBM has agreed to acquire SPSS, a Chicago-based analytics software specialist, the companies said Tuesday.