IBM Software Group (SWG) was one of the major divisions of IBM. Since 2010, it was sub-divided into two groups: Middleware and Solutions See List of IBM products#Computer software for a list of actual IBM software products.

Middleware Group

* Information Management Software — database servers and tools, text analytics, and content management. *

Rational Software Rational Machines is an enterprise founded by Paul Levy and Mike Devlin in 1981 to provide tools to expand the use of modern software engineering practices, particularly explicit modular architecture and iterative development. It changed its n ...

— Software development and application lifecycle management. Acquired in 2002. *

Tivoli Software Tivoli Software encompasses a set of products originally developed by Tivoli Systems Inc. IBM bought the company and ran the operation as its Tivoli Software division. Additional products were acquired and run under the Tivoli portfolio brand. ...

— Systems management. Acquired in 1995. Re-branded as 'Cloud & Smarter Infrastructure' (C&SI) in 2013. *

WebSphere IBM WebSphere refers to a brand of proprietary computer software products in the genre of enterprise software known as "application and integration middleware". These software products are used by end-users to create and integrate applications w ...

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EJB Jakarta Enterprise Beans (EJB; formerly Enterprise JavaBeans) is one of several Java APIs for modular construction of enterprise software. EJB is a server-side software component that encapsulates business logic of an application. An EJB ...

development environment, container, and a series of pre-packaged applications, primarily for management interfaces and web commerce.

Solutions Group

Lotus Software Lotus Software (called Lotus Development Corporation before its acquisition by IBM) was an American software company based in Massachusetts; it was "offloaded" to India's HCL Technologies in 2018. Lotus is most commonly known for the Lotus 1-2- ...

— Groupware, collaboration and business software. Acquired in 1995. * Business Analytics —

Cognos Cognos Incorporated was an Ottawa, Ontario-based company making business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) software. Founded in 1969, at its peak Cognos employed almost 3,500 people and served more than 23,000 customers in ove ...

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SPSS SPSS Statistics is a statistical software suite developed by IBM for data management, advanced analytics, multivariate analysis, business intelligence, and criminal investigation. Long produced by SPSS Inc., it was acquired by IBM in 2009. Cur ...

* Industry Solutions — Enterprise Content Management, Enterprise Marketing Management and B2B&Commerce

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