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  • Adaptive Insights ROI case study: Anonymous manufacturer

    A major medical device manufacturer, chose to adopt Adaptive Insights’ Adaptive Planning for forecasting, planning, and accounting…

  • Guidebook: Adaptive Insights

    Although corporate performance management (CPM) solutions have been in the market for some time, a new set…

  • SuccessFactors Presentations

    On February 12, 2014, SuccessFactors announced the release of Presentations for real-time construction of presentations in workforce…

  • LogMeIn Rescue ROI case study: Valiant Technology

    Valiant Technology deployed LogMeIn Rescue to enable its help desk engineers to deliver a consistently high level…

  • Nucleus Research EAM Rapid Financial Business Case Tool

    Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) applications enable companies in capital-intensive industries such as utilities, process and discrete manufacturing,…

  • Informatica updates its Data Masking capabilities

    As more organizations outsource the support and development of their applications, the highly publicized corporate data breaches,…

  • BenefitFocus HR InTouch ROI case study: GCA Services Group

    Nucleus Research examined the use of BenefitFocus’s HR InTouch to identify the benefits of migrating manual HR…

  • Information governance and ECM

    Growing regulatory demands across industries to retain and secure information is putting increased pressure on antiquated information…

  • LogMeIn Rescue ROI case study: Rice Toyota

    2014 ROI AWARD WINNER! Rice Toyota adopted LogMeIn Rescue to accelerate the resolution of IT helpdesk tickets….

  • MemSQL updates its in-memory database platform

    MemSQl announced the release of MemSQL v3.0, an integrated tiered storage architecture, which consists of a transactional…

  • Quantifying HireVue’s Impact on Recruiting

    Organizations find themselves in a costly loop that involves recruiters, external recruiters, and hiring managers as the…

  • FinancialForce HCM: Back Office Comes Forward

    FinancialForce.com acquired Vana Workforce in November of 2013 integrating workforce management into the company’s financial analytics to…

  • Data Discovery and Business Intelligence: Uncovering the best fit

    Companies have traditionally adopted business intelligence solutions to support business decision making on a consistent daily basis,…

  • Digitech PaperVision Enterprise R77

    Streamlining and automating workflows for the capture, management, and storage of information that eliminate paper documents within…

  • What NetSuite’s growth means for ERP

    Netsuite announced record revenues for 2013, with 34 percent growth over the previous year. This growth, along…

  • MicroStrategy launches MicroStrategy PRIME

    MicroStrategy announced the release of MicroStrategy PRIME, an in-memory analytics service to optimize and provide high performance…

  • Fotopunch – WFM and Real Mobility

    Fotopunch uses geo-location and photo recognition technology to put time and attendance accessibility in the hands of…

  • IBM releases Kenexa Talent Suite

    On January 27, 2014 IBM announced the cloud-based Kenexa Talent Suite that brings together talent acquisition, talent…

  • Workday 21

    Workday released its latest update, Workday 21, on January 23, 2014. The update introduced an HTML5 based…

  • Ceridian Dayforce HCM ROI Case Study: Falls of Neuse Management LLC

    Nucleus Research examined the use of Ceridian Dayforce HCM to identify the benefits of consolidating multiple in-house…

  • Salesforce Data.com ROI case study: Tableau Software

    Nucleus Research examined Tableau Software’s use of Salesforce Data.com to help the company quickly identify sales leads…

  • Halogen Software: HR for the modern world

    Human capital management vendors vary on how to deliver end-to-end functionality that spans quantitative and qualitative assessments…

  • EMC Documentum InfoArchive Release

    The ability to capture growing amounts of data from a wide range of sources can overwhelm businesses…

  • Igloo Software Benefit Case Study: Siegel+Gale

    Siegel+Gale, a global strategic branding firm, deployed Igloo Software’s cloud intranet solution to enhance internal collaboration, improve…

  • Kronos Workforce Collaboration

    As a workforce management (WFM) company, Kronos partners with HR solution providers to deliver customers end-to-end human…

  • ADP: A consultative approach to HCM

    The human capital management market has been flooded with a variety of approaches to providing HR, talent…

  • Brightcove Acquires Unicorn Media

    On January 6, 2014 Brightcove Inc. announced that it will acquire Unicorn Media, Inc., a provider of…

  • Informatica: A Closer look at its Customer Support Strategy

    Boasting a 96% renewal rate and an equally impressive staff retention rate over the past five years,…

  • Valiant Technology Customizable HCM

    Companies are constantly reducing the bottom line cost of operations to optimize profitability as a growth strategy…

  • Guidebook: Saba Cloud

    Saba’s on-premise, hybrid, and cloud solutions manage employee learning and talent development as companies seek to involve…

  • The ROI of cloud-based financial applications

    Nucleus has analyzed the experiences of many cloud customers over the years and found that cloud-based financial…

  • A closer look at Orbit

    Companies considering a move to Google Apps have often found that, while Google Apps provides many of…

  • Cloud Sherpas expands its footprint

    Nucleus took a closer look at Cloud Sherpas and found its global presence and size makes it…

  • Reflexis Retail Bridging HCM and BI

    Reflexis provides retailers with a unified solution that connects isolated data sources for operational cost analytics, corporate…

  • Microsoft acquires Parature

    On January 7, Microsoft announced plans to acquire Parature, a provider of Web-based customer service and support…

  • Oracle buys Responsys

    Oracle announced its planned acquisition of Responsys, furthering the CRM arms race and making a needed catch-up…

  • Kronos’s SaaSHR Partners With B2B Soft

    In December 2013, Kronos announced a partnership with B2B Soft to extend its SaaSHR platform to wireless…

  • Pivotal Data Dispatch ROI Case Study: NYSE Euronext

    NYSE Euronext operates in a heavily regulated environment and must meet regulatory requirements with respect to data…

  • Ultipros growth spurt

    In December 2013, Ultimate Software announced the release of several updates to its human capital management platform…

  • Maximizing the value of BIRT

    Nucleus analysts found customers used BIRT iHub to achieve benefits in two broad categories: increased employee productivity…

  • Microsoft Dynamics CRM Benefit Case Study: Anonymous

    A US state’s department of corrections (DOC) deployed a custom application developed on Microsoft Dynamics CRM to…

  • Collaborative Domestic Solution Center Benefit Case Study: Anonymous

    The US subsidiary of a Japanese pharmaceutical firm engaged the Collaborative Domestic Solution Center to support its…

  • Technology Value Matrix Second Half 2013: Analytics

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

  • Nucleus Top Ten Predictions for 2014

    Smarter software, smarter tablets, and smarter technology in general are driving Nucleus’s Top Ten Predictions for 2014….

  • A closer look at the Oracle Database Appliance

    The Oracle Database Appliance is designed to be a simple, affordable, high availability cluster in a box….

  • Accelerating Time to Value for Analytics with IBM Business Partners

    In analyzing deployments of IBM Business Analytics Software, Nucleus has found that midsize organizations adopting these applications…

  • NetSuite ROI case study: DocuSign

    DocuSign deployed NetSuite Financial Planning, NetSuite’s cloud budgeting, forecasting and planning solution, to support its finance team’s…

  • Increasing Profitability with Analytics in Midsize Companies

    Adoption of analytics such as business intelligence (BI), performance management (PM), and predictive analytics (PA) in midsize…

  • HireVue joins forces with Peoplematter

    In December of 2013, HireVue and PeopleMatter announced that they were partnering to bring together HireVue’s multimedia…

  • Birst announces Birst Virtualizer

    Birst has announced the release of Birst Visualizer, cloud based data visualization capabilities. With Visualizer, Birst is…