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  • Research O201

    PEOPLE partners with cfactor Works

    On September 3, 2014 PEOPLE announced a partnership with cfactor Works to extend cfactor’s Vibe HCM solution to its customer base. The partnership expands cfactor’s…

  • ROI Case Studies O189

    Salesforce Service Cloud ROI case study: Flexera Software

    Flexera Software deployed Salesforce Service Cloud to streamline and consolidate its customer service and support processes and provide greater visibility across customer relationships. Nucleus found…

  • Research O193

    PeopleMatters lightening-speed assessments

    On August 25, 2014, PeopleMatter released new pre-hire assessments that are shorter, mobile-optimized, and designed specifically for the services industry. The company caters primarily to…

  • Research O192

    Universal accessibility in HCM – Where is the value

    It is no secret that the cloud and mobile technology have allowed HCM solutions to invade even the most private moments for employees. As more…

  • Research O191

    Understanding the marketing technologist

    Acquisitions in the CRM space by larger vendors, the accelerating investment in cloud applications, and the evolving decision dynamics for cloud applications are changing the…

  • Research O127

    Tackling the compliance challenge in HCM

    Compliance is now a marketing word in HCM as the challenge has been issued to HR to mitigate the financial risk that it poses. As…

  • Research O185

    ECM: lagging or leading the market

    ECM has been deceptive in terms of how the market is exhibiting, or not exhibiting, a consistent move to the cloud alongside its partner markets…

  • Research O190

    Tableau: valuing data visualization

    The world of data analytics and business intelligence (BI) is heavily urbanized, consisting of several layers of solution offerings across wide ranges of functionality and…

  • Research O188

    PeopleFluent joins the growing world of compliance management

    On August 12, 2014 PeopleFluent announced that it was partnering with Thompson Reuters to expand its workforce compliance and diversity solutions through the addition of…

  • Research O187

    Infinisource releases iSolved Network for service bureaus

    On August 7, 2014 Infinisource announced the release of its iSolved Network designed to enable payroll service bureaus to provide a cloud-based human resource management…

  • Research O131

    Cloud computing casts a shadow on CA Technologies future

    CA Technologies primary line of business is being disrupted by the cloud. The company, which depends on profits from its legacy mainframe products to subsidize…

  • Research O186

    IBM acquires Lighthouse Security Group

    On August 11, 2014, IBM announced their acquisition of the Lighthouse Security Group from Lighthouse Computer Services. Lighthouse Security is a Rhode Island based division…

  • Research O182

    Epicor releases Eagle N Series

    On August 5, Epicor announced its Eagle N Series release, a significant step forward in its software offering for independent retail businesses. Nucleus found the…

  • Research O184

    Moving from automated to the tactical stage of an analytic enterprise

    As organizations deploy analytics, they go through significant evolutions. Business processes and employees’ work practices change as they increasingly embrace analytics as a way to…

  • Research O183

    Five reasons to move your ECM to the cloud

    As companies rethink their enterprise content management (ECM) strategies, many are still considering on-premise versus cloud-based solutions. Nucleus found that choosing the cloud route enables…

  • Research O181

    A closer look at Epicor Eagle

    Epicor Eagle customers have won Nucleus ROI Awards for the past two years, largely because of their ability to increase the value they wring from…

  • Research O179

    Paychex is payroll for small to mid-size businesses

    HCM is trending toward integrated functionality across workforce management (WFM), core HR automation, and talent management. As top-tier vendors are clinging to these three core…

  • Research O163

    Oracle ZFS storage heads to the cloud

    Oracle has one of the largest Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud deployments in the world and is committed to using its own infrastructure products…

  • Research O178

    Paycom’s foray into HCM from payroll

    Paycom provides a full lexicon of human capital management (HCM) capabilities connected through its native payroll provisions that extend beyond data packaging to payment processing….

  • Research O175

    MicroStrategy demystifies packaging

    On July 8th, 2014, MicroStrategy announced the repackaging of several of its licenses into four distinct packages designed to simplify the complexity around renewal and…

  • ROI Case Studies O177

    Demandbase ROI case study: DocuSign

    2015 ROI AWARD WINNER! DocuSign, Inc. deployed Demandbase to attract the right audience to its Web site and serve more targeted, engaging content to visitors…

  • Research O180

    Oracle buys TOA Technologies

    Oracle announced that it had signed an agreement to acquire TOA Technologies, a cloud field service application provider. The move fills a gap in Oracle’s…

  • ROI Case Studies O171

    PTC Windchill ROI case study: SRAM

    SRAM deployed PTC Windchill to integrate and unify the engineering processes for all its brands. The company’s rapid growth through acquisition resulted in engineering and…

  • ROI Case Studies O173

    Digitech ROI case study: Commercial Metals Company

    Commercial Metals Company (CMC) deployed Digitech System’s ImageSilo to automate and integrate its newly centralized accounts payable processing department. The company quickly found that ImageSilo…

  • Research O170

    Guidebook: Allegion Schlage HandPunch

    Using biometrics to automate collection of time and attendance data can reduce buddy punching, manual data review, correction time, and payroll error. The Schlage HandPunch…

  • ROI Case Studies O161

    Aspect ROI case study: Trupanion

    Trupanion deployed Aspect Unified UP and Workforce Optimization Suite to support its multichannel customer engagement strategy and gain greater visibility across customer interactions. Nucleus found…

  • ROI Case Studies O169

    Epicor ROI case study: Mercedes Medical

    2015 ROI AWARD WINNER! Mercedes Medical deployed Epicor Prophet 21 ERP to replace a number of different disparate systems so it could have a more…

  • Research O172

    Ultimate Software releases new compensation management solution

    On June 15, 2014, Ultimate Software announced enhancements to its cloud-based HCM application suite, UltiPro. The updates include expansion of the solution’s talent analytics, general…

  • Research O164

    Guidebook: SpringCM

    SpringCM’s contract management application with Salesforce brings together the automation necessary for sales teams to quickly and accurately create contracts and related agreements, while also…

  • Research O168

    Ceridian puts value in data security and accessibility

    Ceridian announced the release of My Dashboards, Dayforce Human Capital Management (HCM) Analytics and Dayforce HCM Document Management on July 14 at Insights, the company’s…

  • Research O167

    Apple and IBM brave the enterprise

    Apple has finally approached the starting line for a race already in progress. The company is embracing enterprise mobility, partnering its hardware with IBM’s software…

  • Research O166

    Ascentis acquires Starfield

    On July 11, 2014, Ascentis Corporation announced the acquisition of Starfield, introducing broader talent management capabilities to its human capital management (HCM) suite. Ascentis provides…

  • Research O162

    The Internet of things will take our jobs

    The much-hyped Internet of Things (IoT) presents significant ROI opportunities for companies looking to increase efficiencies and improve customer service and support. However, it will…

  • Research O165

    Top Image Systems acquires eGistics: Broadens cloud expertise

    The fastest capture solutions are still only as good as the quality of the content delivery to the appropriate business unit. A multitude of content…

  • Research O132

    Attunity: Solving data management challenges

    Data complexity continues to be a challenge for many IT departments. With increasing numbers of systems, divergent data sources, and data volumes, resources are being…

  • Research O149

    Puppet Labs throws hat into software defined storage ring

    In yet another sign of the technological disruption taking place in the data center, Puppet Labs is entering the software defined storage and software defined…

  • Research O159

    Entelo breaks data barriers in candidate analysis

    Entelo provides customers with an algorithmic HCM platform designed to automate recruiting and talent acquisition processes while integrating existing, public data sets into search and…

  • Research O160

    iCIMS challenges mainstream social recruiting

    iCIMS offers customers a social-oriented recruiting and talent management system designed to leverage networking capabilities for all recruitment and onboarding processes. The company’s solutions focus…

  • Research O157

    OpenText Gives Away Tempo Box — Again

    OpenText is taking a new approach to ensuring that its existing customers aren’t enticed away by other vendors. OpenText has announced that it is giving…

  • Research O156

    Rimini Street expands European presence

    Rimini Street formally opened its new office in London to support continued growth in the United Kingdom and Europe, reporting year-on-year revenue growth of 36.2…

  • Research O155

    Assessing the benefits of GoodData

    IT demands on the part of the business has always been a fact of daily life, but as volumes of data increase, and the speed…

  • Research O143

    SwiftStack expands object storage to the enterprise data center

    Some of the largest cloud deployments in the world – Google, Alibaba, Facebook, and Apple built their data centers from the ground up to stockpile…

  • ROI Case Studies O111

    Delphix ROI case study: CIGA

    California Insurance Guarantee Association (CIGA), chose Delphix as its enterprise standard for data management. Nucleus found that moving to Delphix enabled CIGA to reduce the…

  • Research O154

    HP introduces new enterprise application services for Workday

    On June 17, 2014, HP announced the release of HP Enterprise Application Services for Workday aimed at helping customers maximize the business value of Workday…

  • Research O150

    Ceridian launches Essentials Organizational Readiness Toolkit

    On June 23, 2014 Ceridian announced the release of the Essentials Organizational Toolkit for Dayforce HCM. The toolkit provides customers with resources aimed at increasing…

  • Research O151

    Kronos adds travel and expense management to Workforce Ready Marketplace

    On June 23, 2014 Kronos announced the addition of Certify to the Workforce Ready Marketplace. Certify is a cloud-based travel and expense management solution that…

  • Research O148

    Informatica acquires StrikeIron

    On June 13th, 2014, Informatica announced its acquisition of StrikeIron, a cloud-based contact verification solution and is part of Informatica Cloud’s strategy for data quality…

  • Research O152

    TweetMyJobs and Ceridian Dayforce Recruiting partner for social recruiting

    On June 26, 2014, TweetMyJobs announced an agreement with Ceridian to deliver social and mobile recruiting solutions through Dayforce Recruiting. The partnership will streamline social…

  • ROI Case Studies O147

    BlackBerry ROI case study: JC Security

    JC Security deployed BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5 and BlackBerry smartphones to create a seamless and secure mobile communication infrastructure to quickly and effectively communicate in…

  • Research O144

    Seismic: Empowering the client experience

    Updating sales and marketing materials is a time consuming process for both sales and marketing teams. Customizing slide decks and presentation materials slows the sales…