Every category where a model named Nicus Software for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
IT financial management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	35 of 159	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Nicus ITFM Platform at 9%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Nicus Software yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Nicus Software across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase5 labelsNone

Comparative8 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative19 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 2 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Nicus Software is recognized as a best ITFM provider for enterprise organizations” Claude Haiku 4.5 · IT financial mgmt · comparative prompt · first choice

“a strong ITFM/TBM contender that sits comfortably between basic spreadsheet tracking and complex enterprise software” Gemini 3.5 Flash · IT financial mgmt · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Choose Nicus or Proven Optics if you want Apptio-grade financial forecasting” Gemini 3.5 Flash · IT financial mgmt · comparative prompt · alternative

“Best for IT service cost allocation” DeepSeek V4 Flash · IT financial mgmt · comparative prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Nicus Software, over the 19 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Nicus Software was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

IBM Apptio14 of 199Not among the top eight

ServiceNow IT Financial Management13 of 190Not among the top eight

Flexera One9 of 190Not among the top eight

MagicOrange8 of 192Not among the top eight

IBM Apptio Cloudability7 of 193Not among the top eight

Serviceware Financial5 of 190Not among the top eight

Serviceware4 of 190Not among the top eight

VMware Tanzu CloudHealth4 of 190Not among the top eight

Broadcom Clarity PPM3 of 190Not among the top eight

Bee3602 of 190Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Nicus Software. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 19 of the 19 answers that named Nicus Software and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

thectoclub.com14

apptio.com11

nicus.comYour site11

costanalyst.ai10

gartner.com9

worldmetrics.org8

blog.invgate.com7

serviceware-se.com7

swanintelligence.com7

bigtime.net6

Seventy-nine of the ninety domain citations in answers naming Nicus Software came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

thectoclub.com/tools/best-it-financial-management-software10

blog.invgate.com/itfm-software7

gartner.com/reviews/market/it-financial-management-tools7

swanintelligence.com/best-itfm-providers7

bigtime.net/blogs/financial-management-software6

costanalyst.ai/best/apptio-vs-servicenow6

g2.com/categories/it-financial-management-itfm6

qobra.co/blog/best-financial-management-software6

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

nicus.com ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Nicus Software takes 0% of first choices and Nicus ITFM Platform takes 9%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “it financial management platform”

Position for “it financial management platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 90 a month (“nicus software”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 0 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 19,779 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 145 · 7 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 740
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

14 ads · 12 text, 2 image · 7 shown in the last 30 days

First shown June 2025, as Nicus Software Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 6 in the year, 8 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 35 of 159 in IT financial mgmt

Segment leader

Nicus ITFM Platform

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 19 answers
Its own site cited: in 19 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on nicus.com

333

subdomains included

Content

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

16 · 51

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
News or press	37	2	2026-09-17	IT financial mgmt, ITAM
Webinar or virtual event	12	0	2021-04-15	IT financial mgmt
Conference or event	12	1	2026-07-29	IT financial mgmt
Report or ebook	8	0	2020-07-20
Comparison	8	0	2025-08-13	IT financial mgmt
Case study	7	0	2020-10-22
Blog	1	0	2025-08-22

Most recent

2026-09-17Only 4 of senior it budget leaders are highly satisfied with ai cost and roi tracking news or press
2026-09-15Nicus appoints robin wadsworth as chief executive officer news or press
2026-07-295 takeaways from the 2026 itfma conference conference or event
2026-05-052026 tbm conference conference or event
2026-05-05Nicus introduces nicus ai agent news or press
2026-03-302026 itfma annual conference conference or event

Events in person

Upcoming

November 9, 2026 to November 11, 2026TBM Conference 2026Miami · speaks

Last twelve months

July 20, 2026 to July 24, 20262026 Financial World of Information TechnologyRosen Plaza® Hotel, Orlando, United States · exhibited

As the event pages on nicus.com state them, read October 5, 2026.

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page nicus.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.

Follow Nicus Software

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The company

Nicus Software is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Nicus delivers ITFM & TBM solutions on ServiceNow, helping Fortune 2000 firms maximize the business value of technology investments.
nicus.com
For: Fortune 2000 firms; CIOs, CFOs, and IT Finance; senior IT budget leaders
nicus.com
Customers named: American Family InsuranceFlorida BlueArizona Strategic Enterprise TechnologyCity of SeattleFortune 500 insurance firmState IT AgencyState of Arizona
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting

What Nicus Software's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: nicus.com, nicus.com/products, nicus.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Nicus Software by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Nicus Software is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Nicus Software, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.