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SAP will likely acquire a company specializing in predictive analytics within the next year, Forrester Research predicts.

By Mary Hayes Weier, InformationWeek, August 20, 2009

IBM (NYSE: IBM)'s planned acquisition of SPSS Inc. is likely to set off a new wave of consolidation in the business-intelligence market, as more software vendors look to beef up their predictive analytics capabilities, according to a Forrester Research report.

Forrester predicts that in the coming year, vendors will look to partner or acquire companies specializing in this area, including Accelrys Software, Angoss, FICO, KXEN, and Portrait Software.SAP (NYSE: SAP), in particular, is likely to make a predictive analytics acquisition, the research firm says.

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