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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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….
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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….
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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….
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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,…