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  • PeopleMatter releases new talent management mobility options

    On May 8, 2014, PeopleMatter announced new advancements for the PeopleMatter Platform designed to more accurately align…

  • Workday releases Workday Recruiting

    On May 6, 2014, Workday released Workday Recruiting adding talent management to its existing cloud-based HCM application…

  • Technology Value Matrix First Half 2014: Analytics

    The evolution of business intelligence is quickly leading to a splintering of markets as the previously monolithic…

  • Two big data and discovery vendors to watch in 2014

    Data discovery and big data solutions have been the hot topics of the past couple of years…

  • Big data vendors to watch in 2014: 1010data

    Some vendors are working are working to set themselves apart with a focus on providing familiar and…

  • Data discovery vendors to watch in 2014: Datawatch

    Data discovery vendors are coming into the market fast and loose and from all sorts of directions. …

  • Brightcove Benefit Case Study: ExactTarget

    Salesforce ExactTarget Marketing Cloud, a digital marketing company, adopted Brightcove’s Video Cloud to manage the development and…

  • InfinityHR partners with Aurico

    On April 28, 2014, Infinity Software Solutions announced a partnership with Aurico to integrate employment screening with…

  • Technology Value Matrix First Half 2014: ECM

    As the enterprise content management (ECM) market continues to mature, vendors are aligning their solution development strategies…

  • OpenText launches Discovery Suite

    Despite the best efforts of companies to keep up with the volume of content being created, content…

  • Peoplefluent releases Mirror Suite

    On April 28, 2014 Peoplefluent released Peoplefluent Mirror Suite. The launch provides customers with workflows designed for…

  • Technology Value Matrix First Half 2014: CPM

    Corporate Performance Management (CPM) continues to see rapid change due to the emergence of cloud-based CPM players,…

  • Four HCM missteps to avoid

    Customers are faced with many challenges in identifying the best investment strategy for deploying an HCM platform,…

  • SAS Analytics and Open Source

    Many organizations balance open source solutions with commercial software to meet the requirements for statistical analysis both…

  • Four ECM missteps to avoid

    Enterprises face both technical and cultural challenges when implementing an ECM solution that will integrate across the…

  • Delivering value to mid-sized companies in HCM

    The HCM market is taking a hard look at the value of establishing market share among mid-sized…

  • A new value basis in HCM with NuView Systems

    As platform integration and expansion of analytics are emerging as mainstream differentiators in HCM, NuView Systems is…

  • The value employee development: Cornerstone OnDemand

    Human capital management (HCM) is heating up as solution development is shifting to include employee engagement and…

  • Technology Value Matrix First Half 2014: ERP

    The enterprise resource planning (ERP) market continues to mature; however, new entrants with unique value propositions and…

  • Two ECM vendors to watch in 2014

    Heading into 2014, enterprises are taking their content and their data more seriously than ever, putting ECM…

  • Three HCM vendors to watch in 2014

    A race to the top is emerging among HCM vendors as the market trends toward integrated functionality…

  • The Pivotal Big Data suite

    The explosion of big data and the rapid evolution of big data tools and technologies is challenging…

  • M-Files ROI case study: Booth & Associates LLC

    Booth & Associates deployed M-Files DMS to improve its document storage and search capabilities to improve the…

  • Technology Value Matrix First Half 2014: HCM

    The human capital management (HCM) market is consolidating behind three central competencies of core HR, talent management,…

  • A closer look at Oracle Sales Cloud

    The accelerating release cadence of cloud CRM vendors are often about playing catch up with the features…

  • Anatomy of a decision: GoodData

    Companies are facing increasing challenges to consolidate data, provide easy to use dashboards and reports to hundreds…

  • New Acumatica CEO plans for growth

    Acumatica provides cloud-based ERP for small and medium-sized businesses. Last year, the company reported 350 percent year-over-year…

  • SpringCM announces Salesforce integrations

    On April 2, 2014 SpringCM announced the release of two applications that further integrate the company’s enterprise…

  • Technology Value Matrix First Half 2014: CRM

    Competition continues to be fierce in the CRM marketplace, as CRM begins to replace ERP as the…

  • SkillSoft and IBM expand adaptive learning

    On April 2, 2014, Skillsoft released new updates from the company’s joint-venture with IBM designed to leverage…

  • Lumesse: Valuing core HR in talent management

    Lumesse provides a talent management platform that combines the employee performance aspects of core HR with recruitment,…

  • The Infor strategy toward UI

    The user experience for enterprise software is becoming claustrophobic with fields, buttons, and categories to manage all…

  • A closer look at FInancialForce.com

    FinancialForce ERP, based on the Salesforce1 platform, provides a complete cloud-based ERP solution that delivers many of…

  • Automating information governance

    Vendors across industry segments are responding to the demand for more information governance functionality as enterprises operate…

  • PeopleMatter 2014 Spring release

    On March 24, PeopleMatter announced its spring 2014 release that introduced new features for mobility, increased candidate…

  • Tactile raises $11.2 million

    Tactile, a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider founded by a former Salesforce.com executive, announced a round of fundraising…

  • SAP acquires FieldGlass

    On March 26, 2014 SAP AG announced the acquisition of Fieldglass, a technology provider for procuring and…

  • Imprivata ROI case study: South Shore Hospital

    2014 ROI AWARD WINNER! South Shore Hospital, a regional healthcare provider based in South Weymouth, Massassachusetts, chose…

  • IBM Smarter Commerce SPSS ROI case study: Mueller

    Mueller, Inc., a manufacturing company, chose IBM SPSS for predictive analytics to provide better insight into how…

  • Adobe and SAP partner on enterprise marketing

    Adobe and SAP announced that SAP will resell Adobe Marketing Cloud with the SAP HANA platform and…

  • Three core values of PeopleSoft

    At a recent conference, Nucleus talked with PeopleSoft customers to understand their use of the solution, their…

  • Microsoft Convergence Update

    At Microsoft Convergence this year, Microsoft announced Dynamics AX 2012 R3, scheduled for availability May 1, with…

  • Infor’s behavioral science

    Following the acquisition of PeopleAnswers in January, Infor announced an increase in investment in Talent Science that…

  • Maximizing integration ROI from a hybrid application environment

    Although software-as-a-service (saas) application adoption is accelerating, most companies will have a hybrid application environment for the…

  • OpenText announces 2020 vision

    OpenText has identified the functions it believes are most likely to change how business is conducted by…

  • Epicor HCM: Total resource planning

    Epicor acquired Spectrum HR Systems in 2010 and rebranded it as Epicor HCM, integrating human capital management…

  • A closer look at M-Files DMS

    When looking for a document management solution, enterprises want it to do more than just eliminate the…

  • Availability and reliability in the cloud: Amazon Web Services

    Companies are increasingly moving applications to the public cloud to take advantage of lower initial and ongoing…

  • Salesforce expands its European investment

    Salesforce.com announced plans to increase its investment in Europe, with three new data centers and 500 new…

  • Adaptive Insights: New name and an inkling of an IPO

    In 2003, Adaptive Planning entered the cloud market with a planning solution that has over the past…