The Company

Nuance is the leading provider of speech, text and imaging solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Our technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with information and how they create, share and use documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance by calling directory assistance, requesting account information, dictating patient records, searching the mobile web by voice, telling a navigation system their destination, or digitally reproducing documents that can be shared and searched. Making each of those experiences productive and compelling is what Nuance is all about.

Key Facts

• Nuance has achieved organic growth between 15 and 20 percent, before acquisition, in each of the last three years
  • Estimated FY 2009 revenue: $1,011 million to $1,135 million (Source: Nuance)
  • FY 2008 revenue: $919 million
  • FY 2007 revenue: $613 million
  • FY 2006 revenue: $401 million
  • FY 2005 revenue: $232 million
• Nuance has experienced approximately 50 percent compound annual revenue growth since 2001
• Nuance employs more than 6,000 people worldwide
• Nuance maintains a strong balance sheet with approximately $235 million in cash and securities
• Nuance has met or exceeded its earnings projections for 13 straight quarters

Pervasive Solutions

• More than two-thirds of the Fortune 100 use Nuance solutions
• Nuance automates more than 8 billion caller interactions each year
• Nuance has deployed more than 3,000 customer care solutions powered by speech
• Nuance has delivered mobile speech in more than 250 million devices to date
• One billion mobile devices will include Nuance speech technology within 3 years
• Nuance has shipped its predictive text in approximately 300 million mobile phones
• Each of the 5 largest handset manufactures rely on Nuance solutions
• The world’s top 10 carmakers are Nuance customers
• Each of the top 10 personal navigation device manufacturers use Nuance speech
• More than 21 million consumers and professionals use Nuance Productivity applications
• Our dictation solutions put words onto paper faster than 99% of the people that type
• More than 3,000 hospitals and 250,000 physicians use our dictation solutions

Markets and Products

Nuance maintains the world’s most comprehensive and pervasive portfolio of speech, text and imaging products that are backed by the expertise of our professional services organization and a global partner network.

Nuance speech solutions make the user experience more compelling and expand business potential. Through its dictation, mobile and call center speech solutions, Nuance offers the world’s premier portfolio of speech technologies, expertise and solutions that transform the way people interact with businesses, information and devices. Today, thousands of companies and millions of users around the world depend on Nuance speech solutions to deliver vital information, increase productivity and conduct business.

Nuance’s healthcare solutions provide comprehensive dictation and transcription solutions and services that improve the way patient data is captured, processed and used changing the way people work with medical information. Nuance’s speech-driven clinical documentation systems support all physician workflow processes, dramatically reduce operating costs by driving down transcription and overhead expense, improve patient care via complete documentation and faster results delivery, and increase revenue by reducing length of stay and maximizing reimbursement. Today, hundreds of thousands of clinicians in hospital, physician practice and specialty provider settings rely on systems powered by Nuance to rapidly document electronic patient records.

Nuance’s imaging solutions, through unrivaled features, accuracy and performance; eliminate barriers to productivity by automating a range of document processes – increasing productivity, saving time and reducing costs. With products for enterprises, small-to-medium-sized businesses and home offices, the company’s imaging solutions are used to put the power of PDF on every business desktop; convert paper and PDF into documents that can be easily edited; and simplify scanning and document management using multifunction scanners and networked digital copiers.

Partners

Nuance has grown through a commitment to open solutions and building a partner network that spans all areas of the business and multiple geographies. Today, through its various channels and partner programs, the company maintains strategic relationships with hundreds of leading companies – including Accenture, Avaya, Bosch-Blaupunkt, Cerner, Cisco, Dell, Delphi, GE, Genesys, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, McKesson, Microsoft, Nortel, Sony, Visteon and Xerox – that help bring Nuance technologies, applications and solutions to global markets.

Global Presence

Nuance is a truly global organization, with capabilities and a worldwide commitment that can address a spectrum of customers, lower implementation costs and reinforce leadership in our communities worldwide. The company has more than 35 regional offices, with a significant international presence in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Japan and the United Kingdom. With more than half of the organization residing outside of the United States and a sales presence in more than 70 countries, the company can deliver solutions to numerous local markets and bring global perspective and capabilities to its solutions. Nuance has its corporate headquarters in Burlington, Massachusetts and its international headquarters in Merelbeke, Belgium.