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  • Intradeim Using BI for HCM

    Intradiem offers call centers integrated task management, staffing, queue management, alerts, and notifications that improve business reflexes…

  • Guidebook: LogMeIn’s Rescue

    LogMeIn’s Rescue enables IT teams to support PCs, Macs, and mobile devices securely anywhere at any time…

  • Making the Business Case for Analytics in the MidMarket

    Mid-market organizations have successfully deployed business intelligence (BI), performance management (PM), and predictive analytics (PA) to increase…

  • Building the business case for Apparancy

    Health care organizations facing the unpredictable and evolving requirements of the Affordable Care Act will need to…

  • IBM to acquire Fiberlink

    IBM is continuing to invest in its MobileFirst strategy with its latest acquisition. Fiberlink’s MaaS360 solution will…

  • Salesforce.com and HP announce SuperPod

    At Dreamforce 2013, Salesforce.com and Hewlett-Packard announced the SuperPod, an option for large Salesforce.com customers to have…

  • Technology Value Matrix Second Half 2013: ERP

    The dynamics of the enterprise resource planning (ERP) market are shifting. The incumbent vendors must show compelling…

  • Infor releases SyteLine 9

    Infor released SyteLine 9, a significant upgrade to its SyteLine ERP offering, which includes support for single-instance…

  • True HCM Kronos and SuccessFactors

    In May of 2014, Kronos announced a partnership with SuccessFactors to expand its client reach by matching…

  • AWS and Jaspersoft: A new way of looking at BI in the cloud

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced cloud-based data warehousing, and Jaspersoft launched analytic services on the cloud in…

  • DiscoverOrg announces DiscoverOrg 3.0 for Salesforce

    DiscoverOrg provides a constantly-updated database of IT contacts and organizational charts to help sales and marketing quickly…

  • Technology Value Matrix Second Half 2013: HCM

    The HCM market continues to evolve from one dominated by point solutions for core HR, talent management,…

  • KronosWorks 2013

    Kronos concluded their annual customer conference, KronosWorks, where they released new products and updates related to their…

  • Enterprise software must adopt the principles of Dark Cockpit

    The vendor race for feature and function parity in enterprise software has increased the complexity of many…

  • Pivotal announces Pivotal Data Dispatch

    Pivotal, with NYSE Technologies has announced Pivotal Data Dispatch, designed to solve the evolving data needs of…

  • StorMagic Rapid Financial Business Case Tool

    This financial modeling tool has been developed to allow organizations to assess the financial benefits and generate…

  • PeopleMatter Series E Funding

    PeopleMatter announced it received $16 million in Series E funding at the end of October. The announcement…

  • LogMeIn’s join.me ROI case study: Mainstream Energy

    Mainstream Energy needed a professional conferencing solution that would support its growing collaboration needs and present the…

  • LogMeIn join.me ROI case study: BTS

    2014 ROI AWARD WINNER! BTS, a strategy consulting firm, chose to adopt LogMeIn’s join.me for Web conferencing….

  • MicroStrategy announces free data visualization desktop

    MicroStrategy announced the MicroStrategy Analytics Desktop, a quick and easy to use self-service tool. It is a…

  • Microsoft announces Dynamics CRM 2013

    Microsoft announced Dynamics CRM 2013 and a partnership with InsideView to embed social insights in CRM and…

  • NetSuite Brings ERP and HCM Together

    NetSuite is a cloud-based ERP provider that had traditionally addressed HCM through partnerships. With the announced acquisition…

  • Infor d/EPM announcement

    Infor announced Infor d/EPM, a single technology platform that leverages its business intelligence and enterprise performance management…

  • Intacct Partner Rapid Financial Business Case Tool

    This financial modeling tool has been developed to evaluate the value of the Intacct on-demand financial management…

  • Infor announces UpgradeX

    Infor announced UpgradeX, a path for existing customers to upgrade their existing Infor applications to the Infor…

  • Infor announces cloud e-commerce platform

    Infor announced Infor Rhythm, a cloud-based e-commerce platform that leverages both Infor’s Hook & Loop design investments…

  • 3 Reasons to Consider Ceridian Tax Services

    Payroll tax processing is a burden for all organizations. Faced with regulatory complexity, scheduled filings, and risk,…

  • HRTech 2013 Predictions

    HR Tech opened on October 7, 2013 in Vegas to 8,000 attendees, with directors and VP titles…

  • IBM Intent to acquire The Now Factory

    IBM has continued to define and extend its footprint in the Big Data and Analytics space with…

  • Nucleus Research Workforce Management Rapid Financial Business Case Tool

    The Workforce Management ROI financial modeling tool is designed to help you rapidly build a business case…

  • Oracle RightNow Cloud Service ROI Case Study: Anonymous

    A catalog retailer adopted Oracle Service Cloud, in this case RightNow Cloud Service, to help transition its…

  • Oracle announces enhancements to Sales, Marketing, Service, Social Clouds

    At Oracle OpenWorld 2013, Oracle announced new capabilities for its Customer Experience (CX) offering including sales, marketing,…

  • The value of subscription billing in monetizing video content

    Video content monetization is no longer a choice between ad-based and pay-per-view models. Internet-based video requires a…

  • Oracle battles for HR supremacy

    Oracle OpenWorld 2013 unveiled an Oracle ready for the battle over who owns the HR market in…

  • Oracle expands cloud offerings

    Oracle announced Oracle Database as a Service, Oracle Java as a Service, and Oracle Infrastructure as a…

  • Qualiac ROI Case Study: Cegedim

    Cegedim deployed Qualiac to replace its existing internally-developed ERP application because it needed a more robust centralized…

  • Salesforce.com and Workday announce deeper partnership

    Salesforce.com and Workday announced plans to integrate the Salesforce and Workday product lines and standardize on each…

  • Salesforce ROI Case Study: Talent Plus

    To further integrate its Sales Cloud with business operations, Talent Plus used the Salesforce Force.com platform and…

  • Veeva Systems files for IPO

    Veeva Systems filed with U.S regulators to raise up to $150 million in an initial public offering…

  • Benefitfocus goes public

    Benefitfocus filed its much anticipated IPO on September 18, 2013. Shares rose 80 percent on its first…

  • Technology Value Matrix Second Half 2013: CRM

    CRM continues to be a hotly-contested market, as vendors battle for prospects’ second and third-generation CRM investments…

  • SAP and KXEN Implications for HR

    With the acquisition of KXEN, a holistic approach to human capital management, and HANA under the covers,…

  • Predictive Big Data for business users: SAP to acquire KXEN

    SAP has announced its intent to acquire KXEN, one of the few remaining independent predictive analytics vendors…

  • Tableau presents six themes to transform business intelligence

    At the 2013 Tableau Customer Conference, Tableau announced six key themes associated with planned product launches over…

  • Workday Schools Higher Education

    Workday shook up the HR market with a cloud-based, hire-to-retire approach that won early converts and continues…

  • Nucleus Research Business Analytics Rapid Financial Business Case Tool

    The Business Analytics ROI financial modeling tool is designed to help you rapidly build a business case…

  • Guidebook: Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Government

    Although government agencies have the goal of providing cost-effective and efficient services and high levels of accountability,…

  • Counting on WFM to Manage Pay or Play Liabilities

    With “pay or play” looming in the not too distant future, organizations need to capture accurate data…

  • Appirio Turns Intranet into Social Hub

    Appirio, a global services company, announced a new solution for turning the typically staid intranet into a…

  • Work4 Makes it Easier to Like Facebook

    Even though most associate Facebook with forgotten high school colleagues, there is a potential business use case…