Nuance Communications

American company developing imaging and voice recognition software
Organization business Q1137289
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Financials

Self-reported XBRL data from 11 annual filings
Revenue
$1.36B
▲ 6.1% YoY FY2021
Net Income
-$26.73M
▼ 224.9% YoY FY2021
Assets
$3.39B
▼ 5.8% YoY FY2021
EPS (diluted)
$-0.09
▼ 212.5% YoY FY2021
$0.00$546.45M$1.09B$1.64B$2.19B FY2011: $1.39B · NI $38.24M (2.7% margin)FY2012: $1.74B · NI $207.13M (11.9% margin)FY2013: $1.96B · NI -$115.24M (-5.9% margin)FY2014: $1.99B · NI -$150.34M (-7.6% margin)FY2015: $1.98B · NI -$115.01M (-5.8% margin)FY2016: $1.98B · NI -$12.46M (-0.6% margin)FY2017: $1.73B · NI -$151.00M (-8.7% margin)FY2018: $1.57B · NI -$159.93M (-10.2% margin)FY2019: $1.27B · NI $213.81M (16.8% margin)FY2020: $1.28B · NI $21.40M (1.7% margin)FY2021: $1.36B · NI -$26.73M (-2.0% margin) '11'12'13'14'15'16'17'18'19'20'21
Revenue Net Income
Source: SEC EDGAR · latest 10-K filed 2021-09-30 · accession 0001002517-21-000052

Nuance Communications

Summary

Nuance Communications is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (531 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Nuance Communications was a member of Linux Foundation[3].
  • Nuance Communications is in the country of United States[4].
  • Nuance Communications is in the country of US[5].
  • Nuance Communications's instance of is recorded as business[6].
  • Nuance Communications's instance of is recorded as software company[7].
  • Nuance Communications's instance of is recorded as enterprise[8].
  • Nuance Communications's instance of is recorded as public company[9].
  • Nuance Communications is owned by Microsoft[10].
  • Nuance Communications's headquarters location is recorded as Burlington[11].
  • Nuance Communications's headquarters location is recorded as Burlington[12].
  • Nuance Communications's chief executive officer is recorded as Mark Benjamin[13].
  • Nuance Communications's child organization or unit is recorded as Nuance Communications (Belgium)[14].
  • Nuance Communications's child organization or unit is recorded as Nuance Communications (Canada)[15].
  • Nuance Communications's child organization or unit is recorded as Nuance Communications (Austria)[16].
  • Nuance Communications's child organization or unit is recorded as Nuance (Italy)[17].
  • Nuance Communications's child organization or unit is recorded as Nuance Communications (United Kingdom)[18].
  • Nuance Communications's stock exchange is recorded as Nasdaq[19].
  • Nuance Communications's industry is recorded as software industry[20].
  • 1992 marks the founding of Nuance Communications[21].
  • Nuance Communications's location of formation is recorded as United States[22].
  • Nuance Communications's parent organization or unit is recorded as Microsoft[23].
  • Nuance Communications's official website is recorded as http://www.nuance.com/[24].
  • Nuance Communications's product or material produced is recorded as software[25].
  • Nuance Communications's product or material produced is recorded as Q113952418[26].
  • Nuance Communications's legal form is recorded as Delaware corporation[27].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 549300K2IJ84JKLDX085[28]

  • Registered legal name: Nuance Communications, Inc[29]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US[30]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[31]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): 9999[32]

  • Other legal form: CORPORATION[33]

  • Entity status: NULL[34]

  • LEI registration status: DUPLICATE[35]

  • LEI first registered: 2013-01-10[36]

  • LEI last updated: 2023-08-04[37]

  • LEI next renewal: 2014-01-10[38]

  • Managing LOU: 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12[39]

  • Registration authority: RA999999[40]

  • Successor LEI: AEMSOT3SS15TNMJCE605[41]

  • Conformity flag: NOT_APPLICABLE[42]

Body

Founding

1992 marks the founding of Nuance Communications[21]. Its location of formation is recorded as United States[22].

Leadership

Nuance Communications's chief executive officer is recorded as Mark Benjamin[13].

Operations

Headquarters locations include Burlington[11], a town in the United States[43], in United States[44], founded in 1640[45]. Nuance Communications's parent organization or unit is recorded as Microsoft[23]. Subsidiaries include it (Belgium)[14], it (Canada)[15], it (Austria)[16], Nuance (Italy)[17], and it (United Kingdom)[18].

Industry

Nuance Communications's industry is recorded as software industry[20].

Ownership

Nuance Communications is owned by Microsoft[10]. Its stock exchange is recorded as Nasdaq[19]. Products include software[25] and Q113952418[26].

Why It Matters

Nuance Communications ranks in the top 3% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (531 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[46] It is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[47]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . GRID Release 2017-05-22. wikidata.org.
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  18. [3] . linuxfoundation.org. Retrieved . linuxfoundation.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . National Software Reference Library. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Global LEI Index. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [28] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [29] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [30] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [31] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [32] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [33] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [34] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [35] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [36] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [37] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [38] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [39] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [40] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [41] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [42] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [43] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [44] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [45] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [46] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [47] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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