What is included in Nuance Management Center On Premise?

Central administration – Manage Dragon users, profiles and settings centrally.
License management – Track, grant and revoke Dragon seat licenses.
Usage reporting – See who uses Dragon and how often.
Word distribution – Push custom words and commands to clients.
Core Capacity – Audit events retained one year by default.
Important – Dragon Group client licenses required, sold separately.

What are the main benefits of Nuance Management Center On Premise?

Nuance Management Center On-Premise is the central console for administering enterprise Dragon deployments — Professional, Legal and Law Enforcement Group — from your own servers. It handles user profiles, licenses, custom vocabulary and usage reporting without sending any dictated content to the server.

Local hosting – Keep all administration data on-premise.
Faster onboarding – Provision and deprovision Dragon accounts quickly.
License control – Reassign seats and avoid wasted licenses.
Consistent vocabulary – Share custom words across every workstation.
Dictation privacy – Only usage data leaves the client.
Single sign-on – Active Directory authentication for existing accounts.

What does Nuance Management Center On-Premise do?

It is the central console for corporate Dragon deployments, letting administrators manage user accounts, profiles, options, custom commands and custom words at user, site, group or enterprise level. On-premise means the NMC server, its SQL database and file share run on your own hardware instead of Nuance's cloud. Rather than editing each workstation, an administrator adds a custom word once and NMC distributes it to every connected Dragon client. This keeps vocabulary and settings identical across large teams without manual per-seat work.

Who is Nuance Management Center On-Premise best suited for?

It fits organizations running multiple Dragon Group seats — Professional, Legal or Law Enforcement — that need centralized control over licenses and users. It requires the latest Dragon Group client on each desktop and does nothing for single-user Dragon Individual or Home installs. A practical example: when an employee leaves, an administrator revokes their seat in the console and reassigns it the same day instead of paying for an idle license. The on-premise version specifically suits legal, government and regulated firms that must keep administration data inside their own network.

What is the difference between the on-premise and cloud-hosted versions?

Both versions share the same administration features; the difference is where the NMC server runs and who maintains it. With on-premise, you install, host and maintain the NMC server, SQL database and file share yourself, while the cloud version is hosted and maintained by Nuance. Both require port 443 to be open for communication between Dragon clients and the server. On-premise gives full data-residency control but shifts server patching, certificates and backups onto your own IT team.

Does Nuance Management Center include Dragon speech recognition?

No — Nuance Management Center is an administration layer only and does not include Dragon itself. To use it, you must already have a license or subscription to the latest Dragon Group client (Professional, Legal or Law Enforcement) installed on each user's desktop. Bought on its own, without Dragon Group licenses, there is nothing for it to manage. This is the most common mistake buyers make when they assume "Management Center" is a speech-recognition product.

What does the on-premise version need to run?

The on-premise NMC server requires a Windows Server with Internet Information Services (IIS) and a Microsoft SQL Server database — it is not a desktop application. It also needs a UNC file share (for example \\server\nmsfileshare) for temporary data and does not support self-signed certificates for its HTTPS connection. Plan for a dedicated server and a valid certificate before rollout. These server prerequisites are the main reason some smaller teams choose the cloud-hosted option instead.

Does Nuance Management Center store or send dictated text?

No — only usage data, not the text you dictate, is sent to the NMC server. Administrators can see how often and by whom Dragon is used for licensing and reporting, while dictated documents stay on the client. For healthcare and legal organizations, this separation is often the deciding factor for choosing on-premise deployment. It lets you meet reporting requirements without exposing confidential dictation to the management server.

Frequently asked questions about Nuance Management Center On Premise

Does Nuance Management Center support single sign-on?

Yes. It authenticates users against Active Directory, and on-premise installations do not require the separate Local Authenticator component that some cloud single sign-on setups use. This lets staff sign in with their existing Windows domain accounts.

Are custom words and settings stored centrally?

Yes. User accounts, options, custom words and custom commands are held on the NMC server, so an administrator can reapply a user's vocabulary and settings without rebuilding them by hand. This is what makes moving a user to a new workstation straightforward.