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, which collects to
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"Out of one side of his mouth, Gordon Brown is saying he will make Britain an attractive place to invest, but out of the other he is clobbering higher earners with 50%, which sends out the opposite message.