NICE joins forces with IBM to deliver fully-integrated digital media solutions and related services.NICE Systems (Nasdaq:NICE), a provider of multimedia recording solutions, applications and related professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. for business interaction management has announced that it is working with IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) to pursue various joint opportunities on a global basis, in digital video surveillance and Voice over IP for contact centers, financial trading and command and control. As part of the agreement, NICE has become an Advanced IBM Business Partner, in IBM's PartnerWorld for Developers program for independent software vendors who build solutions using IBM technologies. Together IBM and NICE will provide solutions that include IBM servers, middleware Software that functions as a conversion or translation layer. It is also a consolidator and integrator. Custom-programmed middleware solutions have been developed for decades to enable one application to communicate with another that either runs on a different platform or comes from a and storage products fully-integrated with NICE voice and video recording platforms and enhanced applications such as content analytics. Recently, NICE and IBM, working together, won the first contracts for voice and VoIP recording Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) recording is a subset of telephone recording or voice logging, first used by call centers and now being used by all types of businesses. solutions for compliance with financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. customers in Europe Europe (y  r`əp), 6th largest continent, c.4,000,000 sq mi (10,360,000 sq km) including adjacent islands (1992 est. pop. 512,000,000). involved in retail banking and multi-site trading, The solutions were designed as a centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. recording capability for networked remote branches and trading rooms The notion of "trading room" (sometimes used as a synonym of "trading floor", see below) is widely used in financial markets to refer to the office space where market activities are concentrated in investment banks or brokerage houses. . The key success factor was the combination of NICE product functionality and IBM services for the design and integration of networking solutions for mission critical business environments. In addition, IBM and NICE are proactively offering integrated intelligent digital video surveillance solutions for improved security and business operation management. "Central to IBM's digital media strategy is collaborating with leading application providers such as NICE," said Gabi Tal, Manager of IBM's GTU GTU Graduate Theological Union GTU Guyana Teachers' Union (Georgetown, Guyana) GTU Gas Turbine Unit GTU Ground Test Unit GTU Gun Turret GTU Guidance Test Unit GTU Grand Touring Under Two Liter GTU Geforce Tweak Utility . "NICE's industry leadership, global presence, technology superiority and large installed base of customers will provide additional business opportunities for IBM in areas where we have a strong focus." Global Technology Unit (GTU) is headquartered in Petah Tikva, Israel and is responsible for promoting world-wide business for IBM with Israeli-based technology companies. The GTU's mission is to evaluate and develop a new generation of partners for IBM whose innovative solutions incorporate IBM products The following is a list of products from the International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation and its predecessor corporations, beginning in the 1890s, and spanning punched card machinery, time clocks, and typewriters, via mainframe computers and minicomputers, to microprocessors, PCs, and services, thus ensuring a strong value proposition for both IBM and the partner in joint sales initiatives IBM's consulting and integration services for digital video surveillance systems are an excellent complement to NICE's digital video recording, video analytics and proactive security management applications. NICE sees growth potential as legacy analog tape-based systems are replaced with digital systems running on IP-based networks, as well as an increasing interest to link security applications, based on video content analytics, with the improvement of business processes and operations. Recently NICE installed a digital video surveillance system at IBM EMEA's official briefing center in La Gaude, France, which will be used to demonstrate the next generation digital video capabilities to IBM customers, as part of IBM digital media offering. Koby Huberman, Corporate VP Business Development and Strategic Alliances for NICE, commented, "We are already working closely with IBM on a variety of opportunities in both digital video surveillance and VoIP recording with several airports and banks. We are committed to building on this foundation and developing a strong, multi-opportunity, long term strategic partnership on a global basis. Relationships with companies like IBM will be instrumental in translating our vision into reality." |
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