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  • Salesforce announces Salesforce Files

    Salesforce,com announced Salesforce Files, which enables Salesforce users to connect any file from a third-party repository such…

  • Assessing Akamai Kona Security Solutions

    Distributed denial of service (DDoS) and Web application attacks can have a significant negative impact on Web…

  • Microsoft announces Dynamics NAV 2013 R2

    Microsoft announced planned availability for the next release of Dynamics NAV, 2013 R2, for October 2013. Integration…

  • Nucleus Research ERP Rapid Financial Business Case Tool

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

  • The Danger in Microsoft’s purchase of Nokia Devices and Services

    Microsoft has announced its intent to purchase Nokia’s Devices and Services business unit for 3.79 billion euros…

  • Salesforce announces plans for $1 billion quarter

    Salesforce.com announced its fiscal second quarter results on August 29, beating Wall Street’s expectations and showing the…

  • Oracle makes every BI user a potential mobile application designer

    Oracle launched the Oracle BI Mobile App Designer, which allows end users to use a simple drag-and-drop…

  • Closing Technology Gaps for Human Resources

    Users are seeing the gap between the promise of cloud-based talent management technologies and the value those…

  • Infor announces new version of Epiphany

    Infor announced Epiphany Digital Multi-channel Marketing Solutions 10.0.3, which provides a native Hadoop connection, an improved user…

  • Sugar raises $40 million

    SugarCRM announced the completion of a $40 million equity investment by Goldman Sachs & Co., which it…

  • Oracle announces new release of RightNow Cloud Service

    In the August 2013 release of Oracle RightNow Cloud Service, Oracle provides new features and capabilities in…

  • RingDNA benefit case study: Appirio

    Appirio deployed RingDNA to automate the capture of activity data and marketing campaign data in its Salesforce.com…

  • SAP and SuccessFactors Break Adoption Silos

    More than a full year after SAP acquired SuccessFactors, the mid-year analyst briefing finds the company at…

  • PeopleMatter Rapid Financial Business Case Tool

    This financial modeling tool has been developed to evaluate the value of the PeopleMatter solution. PeopleMatter is…

  • Guidebook: join.me by LogMeIn

    join.me by LogMeIn provides conferencing services to support presentations, sales demos, and online collaboration use cases. By…

  • Attunity partners with HP Vertica for big data integration

    Attunity announced a key partnership with HP Vertica to support Big Data-based change data capture, data loading,…

  • Salesforce Radian6 ROI case study: Cisco

    Cisco standardized on Salesforce Radian6 to support its social media listening center, which listens to and triages…

  • The impact of proving value in the sales process

    In an increasingly competitive market, proving value has become a critical part of every stage of the…

  • Imprivata Rapid Financial Business Case Tool

    Imprivata OneSign includes two core products which customers typically implement in combination. Authentication Management automates the process…

  • Salesforce Benefit Case Study: KIXEYE

    KIXEYE deployed Salesforce Social.com to manage its growing volume of Facebook ads to attract online gamers. Nucleus…

  • Five strategies for successful CRM adoption

    In evaluating the success of their sales force automation (SFA) efforts, most companies blame poor management for…

  • Polycom Benefit Case Study: HomeAway

    HomeAway used Polycom RealPresence Mobile to gain benefits in travel reduction, and other associated costs for remote…

  • The business value of Power BI for Office 365

    Microsoft announced the upcoming launch of a cloud-based business intelligence (BI) solution, Power BI for Office 365,…

  • Does freemium pricing represent evolution or desperation

    By taking a value-driven approach to pricing, Nucleus considers whether freemium pricing represents an evolutionary improvement in…

  • Selling social CRM to the CFO

    Nucleus’s analysis of social monitoring and social engagement solutions have shown that there are real returns to…

  • Microsoft announces new Dynamics CRM pricing and support options

    Along with new functionality, Microsoft announced new pricing and support options for Dynamics CRM customers planned for…

  • Sage CRM Benefit Case Study: Anonymous

    Nucleus looked at a US state government agency’s use of Sage CRM and found that the application…

  • Infor launches new M3 release

    Infor announced the latest release of M3, the next generation of its ERP application focused on the…

  • Why manufacturers hate the term Big Data

    Manufacturers hate the term “Big Data.” At the same time, manufacturing organizations face the very real challenge…

  • Health Catalyst ROI case study: Allina Health

    Nucleus Research examined Health Catalyst’s work in deploying a data warehouse for Allina Health to identify the…

  • Salesforce.com Buddy Media ROI case study: JetBlue

    JetBlue deployed Salesforce Buddy Media to have a more streamlined and flexible way to create and execute…

  • Cloud Sales Strategy 101 for Oracle

    Oracle’s stock price took a dive after it announced fiscal Q4 revenues on June 20, 2013, largely…

  • Oracle takes the high road and Microsoft takes the low road

    Oracle and Microsoft have announced plans to support Oracle Database, WebLogic, Linux, and Java on Microsoft Windows…

  • Technology Value Matrix First Half 2013: ERP

    Many companies are considering consolidating or replacing their maturing ERP applications today to take advantage of emerging…

  • Infor ROI Case Study: Gorman-Rupp Company

    Gorman-Rupp deployed Infor’s SyteLine to help its administrative staff efficiently process transactions and improve operations by reducing…

  • HP builds a HAVEn in a Big Data storm

    HP has launched a Big Data platform, HAVEn, which is Hadoop-agnostic and supports a variety of architectures….

  • Salesforce.com ROI Case Study: AW Hastings

    AW Hastings deployed the Salesforce.com Sales Cloud to replace its on-premise deployment of Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Nucleus…

  • Technology Value Matrix First Half 2013: CPM

    Corporate Performance Management (CPM) is quickly transforming due to the emergence of cloud-based CPM players, the use…

  • Informatica Vibe for social, mobile, and cloud-based data.

    Informatica Vibe is a virtual data machine built on Informatica’s existing data run-time engine. The evolution of…

  • Salesforce.com acquires ExactTarget

    Salesforce.com announced plans to acquire ExactTarget on June 4. The largest acquisition by far Salesforce.com has ever…

  • Salesforce.com ROI Case Study: Kelly Services

    Kelly Services deployed Salesforce Data.com to support a new telesales and direct marketing initiative targeting specific business…

  • Epicor ROI Case Study: Walton Signage

    2013 ROI AWARD WINNER! Walton Signage used Epicor’s Tax Connect and updatable dashboards to reduce report building…

  • Automation Anywhere ROI Case Study: Cerner

    2013 ROI AWARD WINNER! Cerner’s health care IT team needed to streamline and automate the integration of…

  • SAP HANA and Data Services ROI Case Study: SAP

    2013 ROI AWARD WINNER! SAP used HANA and SAP Data Services to build a customer data standardization…

  • AirWatch ROI Case Study: Dowling Aaron

    2013 ROI AWARD WINNER! Nucleus Research examined the use of AirWatch to identify the benefits of deploying…

  • Logi Analytics ROI Case Study: LSI

    2013 ROI AWARD WINNER! Nucleus Research examined the use of Logi Analytics to support bidding and contract…

  • Examining the value of Oracle Exalytics

    Growing volumes of data, rising user expectations, and the need for rapid analysis are driving companies to…

  • Acumatica ROI Case Study: P’Kolino

    P’Kolino deployed Acumatica to automate its business processes, improve inventory planning, and improve customer service efficiency. Nucleus…

  • A Pivotal opportunity to reshape enterprise IT

    Pivotal, a joint investment between EMC, VMWare, and GE, represents a fundamental opportunity to reshape IT through…

  • The future of sales performance management

    Sales managers have faced the same challenges since long before CRM applications were invented. However, new tools…