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Datawatch ROI case study: Pentagon Federal Credit Union
Pentagon Federal Credit Union (PenFed) deployed the Datawatch Monarch platform to modernize its data management and analysis capabilities. The company realized dramatic time savings with…
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Guidebook: Increasing student engagement with Salesforce.org Education Cloud
Higher education institutions are increasingly challenged to meet the changing needs and expectations of students while nurturing alumni and donor relationships. In an era of…
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Deltek reinforces focus at Insight 2018
At its recent user conference, Deltek Insight 2018, Deltek previewed some enhancements that it is bringing to its project-centric enterprise resource planning applications. In addition…
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Host Analytics drives greater usability
Host Analytics’ Fall18 product update brings new functionalities to its Corporate Performance Management (CPM) software which improve data integration and empower financial workers to do…
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Guidebook: Zenefits
The expense and complexity of HR remain a problem for small and medium size businesses (SMBs), who often view an HR subscription as a necessary…
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Host Analytics ROI case study: ACI Brands
ACI Brands deployed Host Analytics to modernize its financial reporting and budgeting processes. In addition to improving the productivity of the finance department personnel, the…
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Talent Management Technology Value Matrix 2018
In the competition for talent, companies are increasingly finding that their technology can be a competitive advantage when recruiting and retaining employees. The challenge is…
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Salesforce High Velocity Sales
The latest updates to Salesforce Sales Cloud include a component called High Velocity Sales, designed to help managers build customized activity workflows for inside sales…
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Dreamforce Highlights
This year’s Dreamforce focused on the themes of trust, innovation and artificial intelligence (AI), equality and climate, personal empowerment, and inclusive capitalism. Key announcements included…
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QAD ROI case study: Imperial Tobacco
Imperial Tobacco shifted its existing QAD production environment to the cloud rather than upgrading and refreshing its on-premises infrastructure, reducing its project costs by over…
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Guidebook: Tensorflow on AWS
Deep learning (DL) may be one of the most common buzzwords in artificial intelligence (AI) today, but until recently it has been mostly conceptual and…
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Democratizing deep learning in the cloud
With the cloud enabling improvements to efficiency, collaboration, and access to data, businesses can employ deep learning at scale in a way that was not…
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Control Tower Technology Value Matrix 2018
In 2018, control tower vendors continued to push the boundaries of what customers are ready to adopt, with tools and automation that only the most…
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Yellowfin adds Signals and Stories
Business intelligence (BI) software vendor Yellowfin announced two new augmented AI tools to simplify analytics and insights – Signals and Stories – to deliver early…
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Assessing supply chain management maturity
As organizations are looking to modernize their supply chain management technology, it is useful to follow a maturity model that maps to what capabilities some…
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Salesforce industry solutions
Vertical customer relationship management (CRM) capabilities can help companies meet industry-specific business needs that are cumbersome or unsupported on traditional CRM solutions. With pre-built components…
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SAP S/4HANA ROI case study: Apparel Company
A large apparel company deployed SAP S/4HANA as part of an enterprise-wide technology transformation that allows the company to consolidate its infrastructure to a single…
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Analytics Technology Value Matrix 2018
As analytics technology becomes increasingly sophisticated, companies are putting more and more trust in data to gain an edge over the competition. Vendors are responding…
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Guidebook: Salesforce.org Philanthropy Cloud
Organizations are increasingly challenged to show they are socially responsible – both to support their brand, sustain customer loyalty, and recruit and retain talent. In…
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E2open expands downstream
At its user conference, E2open Leaders Forum, E2open described how it is connecting planning and execution on its multi-enterprise network, supporting suppliers, manufacturers, logistics, and…
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Nucleus Top Ten Predictions for 2019
Nucleus’s top 10 predictions for 2019 look at rising and falling trends and revisits two topics we took on last year. We look at high-flyer…
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Oracle acquires DataFox
On October 22, Oracle Corporation (Oracle) announced its acquisition of DataFox Intelligence, Inc. (DataFox) for an undisclosed sum. The product will be supported as-is for…
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SugarCon update
At SugarCRM’s user conference, the company announced plans for additional investments in innovation in marketing, sales, and service – as well as cloud infrastructure –…
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SuccessFactors TM delivers value
Nucleus engaged with SAP SuccessFactors Talent Management Suite customers to determine the benefits and value that can be derived from a talent management suite. Coming…
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Alexa is open for business
Alexa for Business is not the solution of six months ago (s71 – Alexa is not ready for business – April 2018). Alexa for Business…
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Guidebook: Oracle NetSuite partner program
The Oracle NetSuite partner program provides the incentives and returns on investment to partner organizations to justify scaling their NetSuite practice, thereby enabling them to…
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Succession and pay lead at INSIGHTS 2018
At Ceridian INSIGHTS 2018, Ceridian unveiled its new succession planning feature, as well as announced the 2019 release of on demand pay. Succession planning is…
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Salesforce Lightning ROI case study: Insurance Company
The company deployed Salesforce Lightning to upgrade the functionality of its existing Sales Cloud deployment. It used Lightning to enable faster data exploration and automated…
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The benefits of SAP S/4HANA
Nucleus engaged with SAP S/4HANA customers to determine the benefits and value they are deriving from the enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform. Despite having a…
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Salesforce Quip
Salesforce Quip provides cloud-based content sharing and collaboration, allowing users to share and annotate a variety of document types, and comment and vote on other’s…
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Adobe acquires Marketo
In September 2018, Adobe announced the acquisition of Marketo for $4.75 billion dollars. The deal is expected to close in Q4 2018. Adobe plans to…
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Ultimate UltiPro enterprise customers
Large organizations, as well as those organizations that are in growth mode, need a human capital management (HCM) solution that is scalable, can easily integrate…
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CRM Technology Value Matrix 2H2018
Leading CRM providers are focused on breaking down barriers: those between siloed applications serving sales, service, and marketing, and those that limit user productivity. This…
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Acumatica remains pragmatic with R2 Release
At its recent release launch, Acumatica outlined the new functionality that it is bringing to its product. With the focus squarely on continuing to improve…
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SAP S/4HANA ROI case study: Centria
Centria deployed SAP S/4HANA to unify its enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution landscape as well as simplify business processes and implement mobile solutions. By consolidating…
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Hitachi solutions help monetize field service
Hitachi Solutions’ Extended Field Service is an offering made up of Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Field Service with extensions for many field service-specific tasks. In…
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Human potential leads at Inforum 2018
The theme of Inforum 2018 was “human potential”. Going off this theme, human capital management (HCM) was at the center of everyone’s conversations. These conversations…
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ProsperWorks rebrands as Copper
ProsperWorks has rebranded itself as Copper in an effort to differentiate from other customer relationship management (CRM) vendors by adopting an increased focus on people…
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Microsoft Dynamics 365 delivers $16.97 for every dollar spent
In analyzing the results of Microsoft Dynamics 365 deployments, Nucleus found that for every dollar spent, companies realized an average of $16.97 in returns. This…
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Infor buys into hospitality vertical
Infor announced the acquisition of hospitality solutions vendor, Vivonet, Inc. The move demonstrates how the verticalization of the enterprise resource planning (ERP) market is not…
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Salesforce ROI case study: Atlantic Energy
Atlantic Energy, a non-traditional small-to-medium-sized energy supplier, deployed Salesforce Service Cloud and Field Service Lightning to facilitate growth, modernize the customer relationship management (CRM) infrastructure,…
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Rapid7 unveils new automation features
On September 20th, Rapid7 announced new security automation and orchestration (SAO) capabilities available through its Insight platform. This new functionality will be integrated into the…
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ERP Technology Value Matrix 2018
In the last year, the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software market began to deliver on its promise to bring intelligence to back-office processes. Be it…
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Guidebook: Salesforce Sales Cloud
Salesforce Sales Cloud empowers sales teams to sell more intelligently and efficiently by centralizing customer information, delivering a singular 360-degree view of the customers across…
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Salesforce ROI case study: BCBSM
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan deployed Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Service Cloud, and Community Cloud to streamline and automate its engagement with members. Nucleus found…
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Salesforce ROI case study: Specialty Food Producer
A specialty foods wholesaler deployed Demandware (since acquired by Salesforce and renamed Commerce Cloud) to enable future growth, leverage new technologies, and overhaul its e-commerce…
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Preserving the value of Excel within CPM
For organizations that have been performing their planning and budgeting with Excel or supplementing a legacy solution, moving to a new corporate performance management (CPM)…
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The future of talent and succession management
The human capital management (HCM) market has been busy with a spate of announcements on partnerships and integrations with collaboration applications and tools, but providing…
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Micro Focus Vertica ROI case study: Wandera
Wandera deployed the Vertica analytics database management platform to replace an AWS Redshift legacy system and to improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of its…
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The cloud benefits companies of any size
Traditionally, software vendors have positioned their products as solutions for small or large enterprises, largely because of complexity and resource constraints characteristic to large scale…