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Nuance Communications, Inc. (NUAN)At 11:14AM ET: 14.44  Down 0.39 (2.63%)  
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Nuance Communications, Inc.
1 Wayside Road
Burlington, MA 01803
United States - Map
Phone: 781-565-5000
Fax: 781-565-5001
Web Site: http://www.nuance.com

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Index Membership:N/A
Sector:Technology
Industry:Application Software
Full Time Employees:5,800

BUSINESS SUMMARY 
Nuance Communications, Inc. offers speech, imaging, and keypad solutions for businesses, organizations, and consumers worldwide. The company provides dictation and transcription solutions and services that automate the input and management of medical information to hospitals, clinics, group practices, and physicians; and speech recognition solutions to dictate, edit, and sign reports without manual transcription for radiology, cardiology, pathology, and related specialties. It also offers a portfolio of enterprise solutions that automate a range of customer services and business processes in information and process-intensive vertical markets, such as telecommunication, financial service, utility, travel, entertainment, and government. In addition, the company provides mobile solutions and services, which add voice control and texting capabilities to mobile devices and services, allowing people to dial a mobile phone, enter destination information into an automotive navigation system, dictate a text message, or have emails and screen information read aloud. Further, it offers desktop dictation solutions that allow users to automatically convert speech into text. Additionally, the company provides PDF and document imaging solutions to reduce the time and cost associated with creating, using, and sharing documents for professionals in various enterprises. Nuance Communications, Inc. markets and distributes its products through a global network of resellers, including system integrators, independent software vendors, value-added resellers, hardware vendors, telecommunications carriers, and distributors, as well as sells directly through a sales force and an e-commerce Website. The company was formerly known as ScanSoft, Inc. and changed its name to Nuance Communications, Inc. in November 2005. Nuance Communications, Inc. was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.
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    CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 
    Nuance Communications, Inc.'s Corporate Governance Quotient (CGQ®) as of 1-Feb-10 is better than 90.1% of Russell 3000 companies and 88.2% of Software & Services companies.
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    KEY EXECUTIVES 
     PayExercised
    Mr. Paul Ricci , 54
    Chairman and Chief Exec. Officer
    $ 1.11M $ 134.00K
    Mr. Thomas L. Beaudoin , 56
    Chief Financial Officer and Exec. VP of Fin.
    $ 414.00K $ 0
    Ms. Jeanne F. McCann , 59
    Exec. VP and Gen. Mang. of Healthcare Division
    $ 340.00K $ 0
    Mr. Steven G. Chambers , 47
    Chief Marketing Officer and Exec. VP of Worldwide Sales
    $ 462.00K $ 1.21M
    Mr. Donald W. Hunt , 54
    Exec. VP of Strategic Accounts
    $ 599.00K $ 0
    Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-09 and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc. "Exercised" is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year.
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