MEDIA RELEASE PR37053
NICE Wins 2009 Asia Pacific Frost & Sullivan Growth Strategy Leadership Award in the
Call Monitoring Systems Market
RA'ANANA, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-Asia-AsiaNet/ --
Leading analyst firm validates the technological innovation, leadership, and exceptional
growth rates of NICE SmartCenter in the region.
NICE Systems Ltd. (Nasdaq: NICE), a leading global provider of advanced solutions
that enable organizations to extract Insight from Interactions to drive performance,
today announced that it has won the Asia Pacific Frost & Sullivan Growth Strategy
Leadership Award in the Call Monitoring Systems Market. According to Frost & Sullivan,
a leading industry analyst firm, the Call Monitoring Systems Market includes recording,
quality management and analytics solutions in the contact center segment
Kiran Kumar, research analyst at Frost & Sullivan, Asia Pacific ICT Enterprise
Practice, said, "NICE Systems has grown its Call Monitoring business remarkably in the
last year. A well managed acquisition strategy and a robust partner network have driven
its continued success in the Asia Pacific region. In the highly competitive segment of
the Call Monitoring market, the vendor has effectively penetrated many countries in the
region with notable successes in the financial services sector in China, outsourcing
sector in India and the Philippines as well as newer inroads into Malaysia and Singapore
markets. Growing at a rate well above the market, NICE systems rightfully claims this
award in Growth Strategy Leadership."
NICE's leadership in the Asia Pacific region is based on the success of NICE
SmartCenter, a suite of business applications for contact center and enterprise
customers. The suite enables organizations to stay on top of growing customer
expectations across multiple touch-points and improve the overall customer experience,
operational efficiency and compliance with regulations. It includes unique analytics-
driven business solutions for addressing specific key business challenges such as first
call resolution, average handle time, churn, and improving customer satisfaction. The
NICE business solutions help companies around the world, including Asia Pacific, improve
contact center performance by enabling them to leverage call recordings for improved
agent performance or for improved efficiency. NICE SmartCenter does all this and more
by integrating recording, quality management, workforce management and interaction
analytics solutions into an end-to-end, integrated suite.
The Frost & Sullivan Award for Growth Strategy Leadership is presented each year to
the company that has demonstrated an exceptional growth strategy within the industry.
Having demonstrated high growth rates, NICE was chosen as the winner for having
bolstered its position in the Asia Pacific market during the base year and for having a
strategy that will have a lasting impact on the market. The award is based on specific
criteria, such as technological innovation and leadership, a unique sales strategy, as
well as strategic mergers, acquisitions, or joint ventures to penetrate new markets, and
is based on 2008 revenues.
"We are happy to see further validation of the NICE SmartCenter strategy for
enabling companies to leverage their contact center call recordings for deploying
business applications that help them improve the business performance of their call
centers and enterprise," said Doron Ben-Sira, President, NICE APAC. "The Asia Pacific
region is an important one for NICE. We are committed to continue working with our
business partners in the region on delivering the NICE value-add to our growing base of
joint customers."
About Frost & Sullivan
Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, partners with clients to
accelerate their growth. The company's Team Research, Growth Consulting and Growth Team
Membership empower clients to create a growth focused culture that generates, evaluates
and implements effective growth strategies. Frost & Sullivan employs over 45 years of
experience in partnering with Global 1000 companies, emerging businesses and the
investment community from more than 30 offices on six continents. For more information
about Frost & Sullivan's Growth Partnerships, visit http://www.frost.com/ .
About NICE Systems
NICE Systems (Nasdaq: NICE) is the leading provider of Insight from Interactions
solutions and value-added services, powered by advanced analytics of unstructured
multimedia content - from telephony, web, radio and video communications. NICE's
solutions address the needs of the enterprise and security markets, enabling
organizations to operate in an insightful and proactive manner, and take immediate
action to improve business and operational performance and ensure safety and security.
NICE has over 24,000 customers in more than 150 countries, including over 85 of the
Trademark Note: 360 degree View, Alpha, ACTIMIZE, Actimize logo, Customer Feedback,
Dispatcher Assessment, Encorder, eNiceLink, Executive Connect, Executive Insight, FAST,
FAST alpha Blue, FAST alpha Silver, FAST Video Security, Freedom, Freedom Connect, IEX,
Interaction Capture Unit, Insight from Interactions, Investigator, Last Message Replay,
Mirra, My Universe, NICE, NICE logo, NICE Analyzer, NiceCall, NiceCall Focus, NiceCLS,
NICE Inform, NICE Learning, NiceLog, NICE Perform, NiceScreen, NICE SmartCenter, NICE
Storage Center, NiceTrack, NiceUniverse, NiceUniverse Compact, NiceVision, NiceVision
Alto, NiceVision Analytics, NiceVision ControlCenter, NiceVision Digital, NiceVision
Harmony, NiceVision Mobile, NiceVision Net, NiceVision NVSAT, NiceVision Pro, Performix,
Playback Organizer, Renaissance, Scenario Replay, ScreenSense, Tienna, TotalNet,
TotalView, Universe, Wordnet are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of NICE Systems
Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
This press release contains forward-looking statements as that term is defined in
the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements are based on the
current expectations of the management of NICE Systems Ltd. (the Company) only, and are
subject to a number of risk factors and uncertainties, including but not limited to
changes in technology and market requirements, decline in demand for the Company's
products, inability to timely develop and introduce new technologies, products and
applications, difficulties or delays in absorbing and integrating acquired operations,
products, technologies and personnel, loss of market share, pressure on pricing
resulting from competition, and inability to maintain certain marketing and distribution
arrangements, which could cause the actual results or performance of the Company to
differ materially from those described therein. We undertake no obligation to update
these forward-looking statements. For a more detailed description of the risk factors
and uncertainties affecting the company, refer to the Company's reports filed from time
to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Corporate Media
Galit Belkind
NICE Systems
Tel: +1-877-245-7448
Email: galit.belkind@nice.com
Olga Kwan
NICE APAC Ltd
Tel: +852-2598-3812
Email: Olga.Kwan@nice.com
Investors
Daphna Golden
NICE Systems
Tel: +1-877-245-7449
Email: ir@nice.com
SOURCE NICE Systems
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