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  • Research P182

    Anatomy of a decision: LLamasoft

    There are many reasons beyond price that factor into a decision to buy a supply chain design application. In studying LLamasoft customers that also considered…

  • ROI Tools P179

    Imprivata Confirm ID ROI business case tool

    Imprivata Confirm ID is the fast, secure signing solution for electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS). It is the most comprehensive platform for provider identity…

  • ROI Case Studies P181

    PTC Windchill ROI case study: Anonymous manufacturer

    An anonymous manufacturing company deployed PTC Windchill to better control and consolidate parametric computer-aided design (CAD) data that was previously unmanaged on network drives, and…

  • Research, Value Matrix P178

    Technology Value Matrix Second Half 2015: ERP

    With aging solutions driving investigation of new purchases and cloud applications increasingly adopted by large and small firms alike, the enterprise resource planning (ERP) market…

  • Research P180

    Dynamic targeting for omnichannel success

    Retailers struggling to achieve omnichannel success should consider dynamic targeting, bypassing national distribution centers (DCs) and shipping merchandise to a regional DC for local allocation….

  • Research P176

    Buying intentions survey: ERP

    As many organizations consider enterprise resource planning (ERP) replacements, and others grow to need ERP for the first time, ERP spending will grow by 4…

  • Research P177

    2016 IT buying outlook

    Although IT spending as a whole will be relatively flat in 2016, Nucleus’s recent Buying Intentions Surveys find that core application pillar spending will grow…

  • Research P172

    Buying intentions survey: SCM

    As vendors continue to enhance their applications for supply chain management (SCM), supply chain managers stand to gain from the vendors’ efforts to improve functionality…

  • Research P173

    Buying intentions survey: CRM

    As vendors continue to innovate across the core pillars of customer relationship management (CRM), Nucleus finds CRM customers will increase spending by 22 percent in…

  • Research P167

    Buying intentions survey: HCM

    Nucleus’ 2016 Buying Intentions Survey finds user investment up 17 percent, with marked increases particularly in workforce management (WFM) and abutting areas. Solutions in the…

  • Research P171

    Buying intentions survey: Analytics

    Nucleus’s 2015 Buying Intentions Survey found that investment analytics spending will grow by 36 percent in 2016. In particular, customers are heavily focused on solutions…

  • ROI Case Studies P174

    Inkling ROI case study: Medtronic PMR

    Medtronic Patient Monitoring and Recovery (PMR) experienced improved employee productivity via more efficient content creation with its deployment of Inkling. Nucleus found that Medtronic PMR…

  • ROI Tools P159

    Inkling ROI business case tool

    Inkling makes it easy for businesses to create modern, interactive documents. Unlike traditional content formats such as PDF, content created with Inkling is mobile ready,…

  • ROI Case Studies P165

    Ceridian Dayforce ROI case study: ACCO Brands

    To replace a human resource outsourcing (HRO) solution that left the employer without control over an error-prone HR process, ACCO Brands deployed Ceridian’s Dayforce HCM…

  • ROI Tools P168

    Nucleus Research software-defined storage ROI business case tool

    Organizations are struggling with the ever-growing demands of data storage driven by the growth in sheer volume of data, the desire to analyze large data…

  • ROI Tools P164

    Nucleus Research SCM ROI business case tool

    Competition in the market for supply chain applications is fierce as makers of specialty software challenge suite or enterprise resource planning vendors for business. Along…

  • ROI Case Studies P163

    Terra Technology ROI case study: Anonymous manufacturer

    An anonymous chemical manufacturer deployed Terra Technology’s Multi-Enterprise Demand Sensing and Multi-Enterprise Inventory Optimization (MEIO) software to reduce forecast error and rightsize its inventory holdings…

  • Research P162

    The fallacy of a common pool of inventory

    Retailers engaged in omnichannel commerce need to abandon the common pool of inventory approach. Instead they should adopt a buy-one, replace-one approach for store replenishment…

  • Research P160

    iCIMS upgrades and new partnership

    The vendor offers a wide breadth of cloud-based solutions for talent acquisition and the elements of onboarding that immediately follow hiring. Many of these capabilities…

  • Research P161

    A year-to-date update on Technomedia

    This year, in building its technology for talent management, Technomedia has followed strategies in keeping with competitors’. A partnership announced in February, for instance, strengthens…

  • Research P158

    Logility releases mobility app and visibility platform

    On September 15, 2015 Logility announced the release of a mobile application “Voyager Thumbprint” and a visibility and analytics platform “Voyager Integrated Business Planning.” With…

  • Research P157

    Power uses spur ROI with SCM tools

    Companies assigning specific users to supply chain applications increase their likelihood of earning the expected payback on a software investment. A Nucleus Research survey of…

  • Research P156

    Anatomy of a decision: iCIMS

    In speaking with users of iCIMS, Nucleus has found them extolling the technology and the vendor’s approach to implementation. Able to handle an array of…

  • Research P154

    Cloud analytics deliver 2.3 times more ROI

    As the adoption of the cloud continues to accelerate, analytics customers are experiencing 2.3 times more ROI with the cloud as opposed to on-premise deployments….

  • Research P151

    Performance management becoming asymmetrical

    Performance management has lagged technology’s promise, and much of this has been attributable to employers, who have for years held fast to conducting annual performance…

  • Research P155

    Volometrix and Microsoft boost user productivity

    On September 3, Microsoft announced that it has agreed to acquire VoloMetrix, which offers analytics solutions that optimize internal performance. Microsoft will be combining the…

  • Research, Value Matrix P153

    Technology Value Matrix 2015: Talent Management

    The concept of talent management, as well as the technology underpinning it, is maturing. The market has vendors that do talent management exceptionally well by…

  • Research P152

    Salesforce announces Lightning

    On August 25, Salesforce announced Lightning, a new user interface (UI) platform that improves user experience and expands the ability of Salesforce and its partners…

  • Research, Value Matrix P149

    Technology Value Matrix Second Half 2015: CRM

    Customer relationship management (CRM) vendors continue to accelerate the pace of innovation and sharpen their focus on user productivity. With embedded analytics, vertical-specific capabilities, and…

  • Research P150

    Anatomy of a decision: Ultimate Software UltiPro

    In speaking with users of UltiPro, Nucleus has found that a large majority give Ultimate Software high grades for customer support. Furthermore, they believe they’ve…

  • Research P148

    TalentWise integrates with MyPayrollHR

    Acknowledging their users’ need for more than just talent management, vendors of it are seeking to bolster their viability against providers of broader solutions for…

  • Research P142

    Infor to acquire GT Nexus

    On August 11, 2015 Infor announced plans to buy GT Nexus, a cloud-based global commerce platform. With the acquisition Infor gets a network that supports…

  • Research P143

    Understanding Watson Analytics

    IBM Watson Analytics effectively leverages more than a decade of IBM’s analytics experience to provide value to customers by broadening the reach of analytics within…

  • Research P144

    SAP SuccessFactors intelligent services

    SAP SuccessFactors has deployed expanded functionality the vendor calls intelligent services, which has the effect of corralling disparate self-service actions that may behave independently into…

  • Research P145

    Host Analytics drives financial advancement for customers

    Elevating finance from tedious manual labor to higher-level conversations can help improve the performance of a company. In the past, this has proven to be…

  • Research P147

    Via Science elevates big data from its most difficult challenges

    As organizations are collecting an increasing amount of data, this data is also increasing in complexity. Via Science addresses this issue with advanced mathematics and…

  • ROI Case Studies P146

    SugarCRM ROI case study: BancVue

    BancVue deployed software from SugarCRM to provide sales, customer service, and marketing with a single point of access to customer information. Nucleus found that moving…

  • Research P140

    Data accessibility for sales teams shortens the sales cycle

    As analytics applications are becoming more widely available to business users at every level, Nucleus found that data accessibility for sales people is key to…

  • Research P141

    CSO versus CIO: Who should choose supply chain software

    The purchase of supply chain software often pits the chief supply chain officer (CSO) against the company’s chief information officer (CIO.) A recent Nucleus Research…

  • Research P137

    Ceridian plots wise path to talent management

    On a methodical path to bring as much of HCM as possible under the auspices of a single application, Ceridian has trained its sights, wisely,…

  • ROI Case Studies P138

    Apttus ROI case study: GLOBALFOUNDRIES

    GLOBALFOUNDRIES deployed Apttus applications to modernize a time-consuming manual process to develop customer quotes for full, custom-made semiconductor products. Nucleus found the project enabled GLOBALFOUNDRIES…

  • Research P139

    Anatomy of a decision: IBM Silverpop

    IBM Silverpop provides specialized marketing automation solutions enabling marketers to deliver targeted marketing to consumer devices regardless of format. In analyzing the experiences of Silverpop…

  • Research O234

    IBM Commerce delivers $14.79 for every dollar spent

    Nucleus analyzed the data from the past two years of IBM Commerce ROI case studies and found that for every dollar spent, companies realized an…

  • Research P136

    JDA 9.0 enables omnichannel retailing and agile manufacturing

    On July 8, 2015 the JDA Software Group announced the latest version of its software, JDA 9.0. The key component in the upgrade is JDA…

  • Research P135

    Oracle releases Sales Cloud enhancements

    On July 27, Oracle released enhancements for its sales force automation (SFA) offering, Oracle Sales Cloud. Including updates for the Sales Cloud dashboard and Mobile…

  • Research P133

    Ultimate Software deployment of critical ACA automation

    Employers who aren’t ready for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) stand to lose large sums of money to penalties and a good deal of productivity…

  • Research P132

    Salesforce Lightning released

    Salesforce announced the general availability of Salesforce Lightning Components and App Builder on July 28, and also announced AppExchange for Components to make it easier…

  • ROI Case Studies P134

    LLamasoft benefit case study: Cardinal Health

    Cardinal Health deployed LLamasoft’s supply design tool to evaluate the makeup of its distribution network and find ways to reduce inventory, transportation and labor costs…

  • Research P130

    Demand shaping cuts costs for omnichannel retailers

    As retailers seek to master omnichannel commerce, they need to engage in demand shaping, the practice of spurring consumers to buy products to move inventory….

  • Research P131

    Logi Analytics increases user adoption

    On July 21, Logi Analytics announced Logi 12, which delivers new products, the DataHub and the Discovery Module, as well as enhancements to preexisting solutions,…