IBM announces an agreement to acquire Vivisimo, a provider of federated discovery and navigation software that helps organizations access and analyze big data across the enterprise. Vivisimo is a privately held company based in Pittsburgh. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Vivisimo software captures and delivers information across a broad range of data sources. The software automates the discovery of data and helps employees navigate with a single view across the enterprise, providing insights that drive decision-making for all operational challenges.  

The combination of IBM's big data analytics capabilities with Vivisimo software will further IBM's efforts to automate the flow of data into business analytics applications, helping clients better understand consumer behavior, manage customer churn and network performance, detect fraud in real-time, and perform data-intensive marketing campaigns.  

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