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  • Nucleus Research Business Intelligence ROI Tool

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  • Nucleus Research Disaster Recovery ROI Tool

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  • Nucleus Research Integration ROI Tool

    This is the Integration ROI financial modeling tool. It is designed to help you build a business case and support your integration technology decision by…

  • Nucleus Research Security Software ROI Tool

    This is the Security Software ROI financial modeling tool. It is designed to help you build a business case and support your security technology decision…

  • Nucleus Research SOA ROI Tool

    This is the SOA ROI financial modeling tool. It is designed to help you build a business case and support your SOA technology decision by…

  • Nucleus Research Storage Management ROI Tool

    This is the Storage Management ROI financial modeling tool. It is designed to help you build a business case and support your storage management technology…

  • Nucleus Research Supply Chain ROI Tool

    This is the Supply Chain ROI financial modeling tool. It is designed to help you build a business case and support your supply chain technology…

  • Nucleus Research VoIP ROI Tool

    This is the Voice Over IP ROI financial modeling tool. It is designed to help you build a business case and support your VoIP technology…

  • Research H85

    ByDesign: Can SAP Really Redesign its Business?

    With its new Business ByDesign offering, SAP has finally entered the software as a service market with a lot of fanfare. However, beyond the big…

  • Research H84

    Consolidation Can be a Good thing: SAP Buys Business Objects

    The SAP acquisition of Business Objects may be a huge transaction, but it will have little near-term impact on end users. The only users who…

  • Research H67

    Guidebook: Evaluating The Business Impact Of Oracle On Demand

    Beyond just choosing enterprise applications, decision makers can also choose deployment strategies that maximize returns over the application life cycle. Oracle On Demand provides customers…

  • Research H79

    Financials On Demand for the Masses?

    Can startup Workday become the Salesforce.com of ERP systems with its on-demand financials and other back office applications? Possibly.

  • ROI Tools H64

    Johnson Controls Municipal Wireless Solution ROI tool

    This financial modeling tool has been developed to evaluate the value of Johnson Controls Municipal Wireless Solution. It is designed to help you build a…

  • ROI Case Studies H52

    ROI Case Study: Siemens OpensScape Solution

    Engage Incorporated employed Siemens OpenScape Solution to create a unified communications platform to decrease the cost of communicating with a dispersed workforce, reduce the time…

  • Research H80

    Google Presentations: The Beginning of the End for the Office and Others

    Adding presentations to its existing docs and spreadsheets fills in the major hole in Google’s office productivity suit — and then some. Although Google may…

  • Research H78

    SAP: For Real About On-Demand ERP?

    SAP is set to unveil an on-demand mid market product that has no defined audience, may or may not compete against its own existing offerings…

  • Research H72

    IBM: Software versus Services

    An industry consolidation leaves buyers with fewer vendors to choose from, for ERP, middleware, and enterprise applications, Nucleus Research decided to compare the business models…

  • ROI Case Studies H76

    ROI Case Study: Siemens HiPath 8000

    The German IT service provider deployed Siemens HiPath 8000 to create a SIP-based IP platform for delivering integrated voice and data center services to its…

  • ROI Case Studies H76

    ROI Case Study: Siemens HiPath 8000

  • ROI Case Studies H75

    ROI Case Study: Outsystems

    SurfControl used OutSystems to rapidly build and deploy portals for its partners and customers, avoid costly development costs, reduce staffing levels, and accelerate integration between…

  • ROI Case Studies H68

    ROI Case Study: Cognos

  • Research H73

    Kineticsware: Making Dynamics AX Go Upscale

    Historically, Microsoft has had limitations on how it sells to medium-sized supply chain-intensive companies that require industry specific applications, extensive service, and customer hand-holding –…

  • ROI Tools H40

    ADP ROI modeling tool

    This financial modeling tool has been developed to evaluate the value of ADP. It is designed to help you build a business case and support…

  • ROI Tools H58

    Arbor Networks ROI financial modeling tool

    This financial modeling tool has been developed to evaluate the value of Arbor Networks. It is designed to help you build a business case and…

  • ROI Case Studies F9

    ROI Case Study: Microsoft Dynamic CRM

    Equinox deployed Microsoft Dynamic CRM to improve its sales process, increasing staff productivity and manager visibility while improving customer acquisition and retention.

  • ROI Tools G45

    Kronos Workforce Timekeeper ROI modeling tool

    This financial modeling tool has been developed to evaluate the value of Kronos Workforce Timekeeper. It is designed to help you build a business case…

  • ROI Case Studies H55

    ROI Case Study: UGS PLM Software

    A test equipment manufacturer deployed project life cycle management solutions from UGS PLM Software, a division of Siemens Automation and Drives, to increase employee productivity,…

  • Research H61

    ROI Opportunities in On-Demand Content Management

    Given the ongoing growth of content, the introduction of new collaboration tactics, and growing demand to adhere to tighter compliance rules, more and more organizations…

  • Research H63

    BI Has Left the Building

    CIOs should consider using mobile BI offerings to broaden BI benefits and adoption while also improving operational efficiencies and productivity

  • ROI Case Studies H49

    ROI Case Study: Johnson Controls Municipal Wi-Fi Solution

    By deploying a Johnson Controls Municipal Wi-Fi Solution, the city of Cumberland, Maryland will improve productivity, reduce fuel costs, reduce its carbon footprint, and create…

  • ROI Case Studies H50

    ROI Case Study: SAS Business Intelligence

    2008 ROI Award Winner ROI: 386%, Payback: 3.2 months IBM deployed SAS BI for its 300mm semiconductor business to leverage existing Base SAS software data…

  • Research H45

    ROI Evaluation Report: Kronos webTA

    Automating time and labor management using a solution such as Kronos webTA enables federal agencies to improve productivity, increase payroll accuracy, and eliminate costs related…

  • ROI Case Studies H19

    ROI Case Study: Spotfire

    An anonymous technology company deployed Spotfire to leverage its existing engineering data warehouse with Spotfire’s interactive analytics solution to enable all engineers to intuitively access…

  • Research H57

    Politics and the Internet: The Big Loser is the Internet

    Forget the hype about MySpace, YouTube, and Internet campaigning. Few people use them for political information, and even fewer trust them. According to a recent…

  • Research H56

    Benchmarking: Service-Oriented Architecture

    Despite all the hype, fewer than half of enterprises have really adopted service-oriented architecture (SOA). Why? A Nucleus survey found that while SOA drives developer…

  • Research H51

    Profiles in content management – Digitech Systems

    Digitech Systems PaperVision Enterprise and ImageSilo content management solutions have enabled organizations to increase productivity, streamline document management processes, and reduce administrative and storage costs.

  • ROI Tools H41

    ADP subscription versus purchase comparison tool

    This financial modeling tool has been developed to evaluate the value of ADP versus a software purchase. It is designed to help you build a…

  • ROI Case Studies H43

    ROI Case Study: DigiTech Systems ImageSilo

    2008 ROI Award Winner ROI: 813%, Payback: 2 months Bigelow Tea replaced its paper-based content storage system and deployed Digitech Systems ImageSilo to create an…

  • Research H35

    Iona helps you scale your SOA

    Many companies struggle to get ROI on their SOA investments because broad SOA adoption relies on costly infrastructure for broadcasting and controlling service use. CIOs…

  • ROI Case Studies H4

    ROI Case Study: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell

    A global insurance company deployed a virtualization solution on IBM mainframes running z/VM version 5.2 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell to improve system…

  • Research H38

    SAP and Oracle: Who’s Ready for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses?

    Who’s delivering the greatest value to the SMB market? An in-depth analysis of 56 customers showed significant differences between the value delivered to SMBs by…

  • ROI Tools H39

    Comverse ROI financial modeling tool

    This financial modeling tool has been developed to evaluate the value of Comverse. It is designed to help you build a business case and support…

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    Microsoft Visual Studio Team System ROI modeling tool

    This financial modeling tool has been developed to evaluate the value of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. It is designed to help you build a…

  • Research H36

    Research Note: Maximizing ROI from ERP

    From acquisitions to SOA and analytics, ERP is evolving to provide multiple options for both large and small enterprises. Wherever you are in the process…

  • Research H34

    Evaluating wikis for the enterprise

    Businesses are looking to wikis as an alternative to traditional collaboration tools to encourage greater collaboration, foster better project management, and promote information exchange.

  • ROI Case Studies H28

    ROI Case Study: Cartesis

    Sandy Spring Bank used Cartesis to streamline its planning, line of business reporting, and budgeting processes to increase staff productivity while improving the quality and…

  • Research H32

    Cartesis Enables Cargill to Improve Global Visibility

    Performance management solutions can do more than accelerate time to close. Cargill used Cartesis to standardize and streamline its financial reporting process, enabling improved financial…

  • Research H31

    Oracle Application Integration Architecture

    Oracle’s Application Integration Architecture, Process Integration Packs, and Industry Reference Models leverage Oracle’s application and industry expertise and its middleware technology to drive faster, easier,…