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  • Maximizing SMB skill gain with HubSpot Academy

    Upskilling and reskilling a workforce is tedious and expensive, especially as employees work from home. However, a need…

  • Equity Snapshot – Appian Q1

    Despite fierce competition within the Low-Code Application Platform (LCAP) market, full-suite solution vendors developing their own low-code tools,…

  • Equity Snapshot – Reflexis Q1

    The economic crisis has severely impacted retailers, restaurants, and hotels, as mass closures and layoffs have led to…

  • Equity Snapshot – BlackLine Q1

    Strong performance in net-new customers and revenue growth through 2020 will likely continue as demand for SaaS solutions…

  • PlanSource Reduces Benefits Cost

    Expanding organizations experience high costs due to over-insured employees, ineligible dependents, and inefficient employee benefits management processes. In…

  • Equity Snapshot – Paycom Q1

    Nucleus expects the competitive price point of Paycom’s offering as well as its expanded functionality beyond payroll position…

  • Equity Snapshot – Ceridian Q1

    Deepening use of Ceridian within existing customer base and an increased interest in WFM will drive strong new…

  • CPM delivers up to $1.41M in annual productivity gains

    Companies that still rely on legacy systems, or even worse, Excel and email, are finding themselves hamstrung by…

  • WFM returns $12.24 for every dollar spent

    As the economy remains in flux, and bottom lines tighten, organizations are being required to do more with…

  • Tray.io ROI case study: Global Data Collection Company

    A global data collection company providing SaaS solutions for surveys and online interaction deployed Tray.io’s platform to address…

  • CPM Technology Value Matrix 2021

    Demand for Corporate Performance Management (CPM) solutions has reached a fever-pitch. Planning with antiquated spreadsheet and email processes…

  • Unit4 shows its x-factor with ERPx

    In the fourth quarter of 2020, Unit4, a Netherlands based software company, announced ERPx, its newest Enterprise Resource…

  • A Look at Benefitfocus

    To combat rising costs, structural complexities, and over-insured employees, organizations are looking to reduce overall healthcare costs while…

  • Equity Snapshot – Amazon Q1

    Holiday e-commerce boom and continued cloud growth, both from new customer acquisition and existing customer expansion, fuel strong…

  • RingCentral ROI case study: Healthcare Claims Management

    Healthcare Claims Management (HCM), a revenue cycle management company serving the healthcare industry, deployed RingCentral Contact Center and…

  • Equity Snapshot – SAP Q1

    SAP’s deep client base and established presence as a leading technology and services provider will provide it with…

  • Equity Snapshot – ADP Q1

    The diversity and size of ADP’s customer base has helped the vendor weather the downturn, while its competitive…

  • SAP delves deeper into process automation

    In December 2020, SAP announced during its TechED conference the development of multiple digital process automation (DPA) technologies…

  • Rapid sense and response with Infor Nexus Control Center

    Infor Nexus Control Center provides various planning and execution capabilities to prevent disruptions and orchestrate supply chain activities….

  • Equity Snapshot – Microsoft Q1

    Continued growth of Azure cloud adoption and its ecosystem, competitive value-for-price in business applications with the Dynamics 365…

  • Equity Snapshot – IBM Q1

    Increased cloud investment by customers across industries, continued leadership of the hybrid cloud paradigm, growing momentum for enterprise…

  • 2021 Outlook Assessment: Box

    Box has maintained momentum in the content management space throughout 2020, with a large enterprise-sized customer base and…

  • Epicor ECM aids content digitization

    Nucleus found that one organization’s accounting department was able to process invoices 6 times faster upon deployment of…

  • Informatica announces new 360 SaaS solutions

    Informatica announced new additions to the 360 SaaS solutions portfolio with new, cloud-native, MDM 360 SaaS solutions to…

  • Checkmarx ROI case study: European Financial Services Institution

    Squad, an independent IT services company providing cybersecurity and DevOps consulting at one of the largest European financial…

  • Benefits Management saves $1060 annually per employee

    Employers offering employee benefits face increasing healthcare costs, compliance complexity, changing regulations, and unnecessary spend driven by employee…

  • Tray.io expands enterprise use cases in 2020

    Nucleus evaluated key updates to the Tray.io product portfolio throughout 2020 to determine what capabilities and features will…

  • Monday.com eases remote work strain

    As organizations adjust to remote work structures, it is critical to offer employees greater visibility into projects while…

  • Looker builds momentum into 2021

    Looker is a cloud-based business intelligence (BI) platform that centralizes data from various data sources and performs real-time…

  • Talent Acquisition reduces turnover by up to 60 percent

    Continued high unemployment has presented organizations with a broad applicant pool. However, making uninformed decisions can increase turnover…

  • Equity Snapshot – Paychex Q4

    Nucleus expects the diversity of Paychex’s customer base has helped the vendor weather the downturn, while its flexibility…

  • Workforce Software LATAM updates 2021

    At the Workforce Software LATAM user conference, the company covered a number of new features as well as…

  • BlackLine delivers consistent returns

    Nucleus analyzed the total costs and benefits of BlackLine deployments from 2011 to 2020, spanning multiple industries and…

  • BluJay helps deliver wherever, whenever

    Businesses worldwide have learned valuable lessons in adjusting to tighter regulations, greater uncertainty, and a transitioning workforce. Global…

  • CoreView helps agency reduce costs

    A government agency deployed CoreView to manage its Microsoft licensing at enterprise scale. It needed to decentralize license…

  • The value of data modernization with Cloudera

    Nucleus evaluated several Cloudera customers to understand the value delivered from Cloudera’s suite of streaming, data engineering, data…

  • Unit4 HCM reduces operational costs by up to 25 percent

    New trends in the human capital management (HCM) technology market have driven vendors to develop software solutions that…

  • UKG Expands and Aligns

    Following the merger of Ultimate Software and Kronos to form UKG, the newly combined vendors are leveraging existing…

  • Salesforce joins back and front offices with Revenue Cloud

    In November 2020, Salesforce announced Salesforce Revenue Cloud, a new solution suite for businesses to manage their various…

  • Salesforce unveils support for public cloud

    Salesforce announced Salesforce Hyperforce, a revamping of the current platform architecture to enhance the Salesforce Customer 360 experience….

  • iCIMS solidifies strong market lead

    Coming on the heels of multiple acquisitions in the rapidly consolidating Talent Acquisition space, iCIMS recently announced its…

  • Stratus ztC Edge ROI business case tool

    The Stratus ztC Edge platform is a zero-touch, reliable, secure, highly automated computing platform, specifically designed for edge…

  • Prophix Cloud ROI case study: ALKU

    ALKU is an existing Prophix user that initially deployed on-premises but implemented the Cloud version of the CPM…

  • Equity Snapshot – Oracle Q4

    With global markets thrown into chaos, Oracle represents a clear value message for enterprise clients who are looking…

  • BlackLine returns $2.77 for every dollar spent

    Analyzing the costs and benefits of six BlackLine ROI case studies, ranging from April 2018 to September 2020,…

  • Unit4 ROI Case Study: Keylane

    An information technology (IT) and services company deployed Unit4 Prevero to modernize its financial reporting and analysis processes….

  • Hot Companies to Watch in 2021

    Nucleus selected 10 companies to watch in 2021 that are top performers who will continue to show exceptional…

  • ServiceNow to acquire Element AI

    ServiceNow, a cloud-based service management software provider, offers organizations solutions that cover security, HR, operations, asset, and customer…

  • The value of BluJay’s TMS for forwarders

    BluJay targets the needs of the freight forwarders through its industry-specific Transportation Management System. Combining order management and…

  • OutMatch announces new Talent Decision Platform

    Over the past few months, talent decision provider, OutMatch, has acquired LaunchPad, FurstPerson, and Checkster, to leverage functionality…