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  • Workday announces Workday 17

    Workday recently announced the release of Workday 17, the latest version of its flagship product. By unveiling…

  • Intacct ROI Case Study: TOA Technologies

    2013 ROI AWARD WINNER! TOA Technologies deployed Intacct to automate its business processes, help its accountants process…

  • Intacct ROI Case Study: The Great Books Foundation

    The Great Books Foundation deployed Intacct to replace an aging proprietary accounting package and integrated it with…

  • Reducing operating expenses with Alfabet

    IT managers must support the needs of a continually changing business landscape while also maximizing the value…

  • ERP announcements from the Sage Summit

    At the 2012 Sage Summit, the Sage Group announced new versions and enhancements for three of its…

  • Quest Foglight ROI Case Study: Anonymous Retailer

    After an initial successful pilot, a retailer expanded and upgraded its Quest Foglight deployment to provide better…

  • The ROI of Social CRM

    As more businesses consider the benefits of social media, champions are increasingly asked to prove tangible business…

  • Yammer is making friends and supporting social discovery

    Yammer has increased its functionality with a new release designed to improve information discovery and a set…

  • SAP releases mobile application developer program

    SAP has increased its focus on creating a mobile application ecosystem built around SAP’s HANA and mobile…

  • Kalido accelerates data access in pharmaceuticals

    Nucleus Research examined how a global pharmaceutical firm used Kalido to manage its evolving data warehouse so…

  • PTC acquires Servigistics

    PTC recently announced it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Servigistics, a leading provider of software…

  • Epicor makes new HCM release available

    Epicor recently announced the general availability of its HCM 5.7 solution. The software’s principal aim is to…

  • Salesforce.com announces Communities

    Salesforce.com has extended its Sites offering with Communities, with pre-built models that integrate Chatter and Site for…

  • MarkLogic ROI Case Study: CQ Roll Call

    CQ Roll Call needed to accelerate updates of the comprehensive information database associated with CQ.com and maintain…

  • Kalido accelerates data access in health care

    Nucleus Research examined how a major North American health insurer used Kalido Information Engine to accelerate its…

  • Assessing the Oracle Database Appliance

    Oracle released the Oracle Database Appliance in September 2011 to bring enterprise-class database performance to small and…

  • MicroStrategy Focuses on usability for the analytic enterprise

    MicroStrategy made several announcements at its world user conference including Express service for MicroStrategy Cloud, a new…

  • Cornerstone OnDemand

    Cornerstone OnDemand provides an integrated software-as-a-service platform for talent management, including recruiting, learning management, performance management, and…

  • Guidebook: Microsoft SharePoint

    Although Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server has been on the market for more than 10 years, many companies’…

  • Assessing the benefits of Demandbase

    Corporate buyers often rely on a vendor’s Web site as the first point of contact and visit…

  • Benefits of BOARD International

    Recent research from Nucleus has found that organizations can achieve significant benefits such as improved decision making,…

  • Five reasons workforce management is better in the cloud

    As the workforce management (WFM) market has evolved over the past decade, cloud applications have gained in…

  • 5 Reasons SMBs should choose Paychex

    Business process outsourcing (BPO) can be a valuable tool for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with limited…

  • MDSL introduces TEM Vision to reduce telecom costs

    MDSL has reduced the time and cost associated with enterprise-level telecom expense management (TEM) through a new…

  • Eloqua announces Chatter integration

    Eloqua recently announced plans to integrate Salesforce Chatter, adding social networking capabilities to its marketing automation solution….

  • Microsoft opens Office 365 sales to partners

    At the Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft announced that it is changing its Office 365 sales strategy with…

  • Asure acquires PeopleCube

    Asure Software recently announced plans to acquire PeopleCube, a provider of cloud-based workplace management solutions. PeopleCube’s products…

  • Pegasystems announces new solutions for healthcare market

    Pegasystems’s new product development and management system, Pega Product Composer System, will shorten the time to market…

  • Avaya Acquires Radvision

    Avaya has acquired Radvision, a leading provider of video conferencing endpoints and infrastructure. As Avaya fully integrates…

  • Kalido accelerates data access in banking

    Nucleus Research examined how a major North American bank used Kalido to change the speed with which…

  • Kalido accelerates data access in retail

    Nucleus Research examined how a major North American retailer used Kalido Information Engine to change its decision…

  • Microsoft acquires Yammer

    Microsoft has announced its intent to purchase Yammer and to add Yammer to the Microsoft Office suite….

  • SilkRoad announces Point

    SilkRoad announced Point, a human capital management (HCM) application that integrates social networking and collaboration features with…

  • Dell adds Pentaho to the Dell Apache Hadoop solution

    Dell has announced the addition of Pentaho to the Dell Apache Hadoop solution consisting of the Cloudera…

  • Intacct ROI financial modeling tool

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

  • Evaluating NetSuite Suite Commerce

    NetSuite recently announced SuiteCommerce, a unified platform that enables businesses to centrally manage all aspects of their…

  • The evolving business case for tier-1 ERP in midsize companies

    Today, usability improvements and rapid implementation tools that simplify deployments make enterprise applications a less risky venture…

  • Microsoft ROI Case Study: Ignite Social Media

    Ignite Social Media moved from a traditional on-premise Microsoft Exchange and Office environment to Microsoft Office 365….

  • IBM ROI Case Study: Redcats

    Moving from SAS predictive analytics to IBM SPSS enabled Redcats to execute on its big data investment…

  • Guidebook: Measuring the half life of data

    The ability to process and analyze data continues to become cheaper and more rapid. However, the proliferation…

  • Guidebook: Microsoft Dynamics for SMBs

    The landscape of enterprise applications is changing, and so are the opportunities and challenges for small and…

  • Oracle expands social relationship platform with Collective Intellect

    Hot on the heels of its Vitrue acquisition announcement, Oracle announced the acquisition of Collective Intellect, a…

  • SAS Intelligent Advertising for Publishers

    Statistical Analysis System (SAS) Institute has developed a new advertising publishing solution: Intelligent Advertising for Publishers. SAS’s…

  • Infor ROI Case Study: Herman Miller

    2012 ROI AWARD WINNER! Herman Miller used Infor10 ERP Business as the platform to build its new…

  • Peoplefluent invests in the social enterprise

    Peoplefluent, a talent management solution, made a strategic investment in Socialtext, a social software vendor. This investment…

  • LogiXML ROI Case Study: Islington Council

    2012 ROI AWARD WINNER! Nucleus Research examined the use of LogiXML by Islington Council to identify the…

  • Salesforce.com announces plans to acquire Buddy Media

    Salesforce.com looks to expand its social CRM offering by announcing plans to buy social media marketing platform…

  • BMC ROI Case Study: Lumen21

    2012 ROI AWARD WINNER! Lumen21, a technology managed services provider, faced rapidly increasing costs to manage and…

  • Anatomy of a Decision: Ceridian Dayforce

    Decision makers in human capital management (HCM) are increasingly looking for solutions that do more than just…

  • Pentaho ROI Case Study: StoneGate

    2012 ROI AWARD WINNER! StoneGate created a labor and overtime tracking tool using Pentaho Business Analytics to…