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IBM is likely to trail SAP and Microsoft in this sector as it is having to digest two acquisitions - that of Cognos, which itself acquired Applix, the developer of planning and analysis applications built around its TM1 multidimensional database.

According to former Applix executive Martin Richmond Coggan, who is now an IBM vice president responsible for financial performance management applications in Europe, w

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