NICE Ltd. () is an Israel-based company, specializing in contact center software
NICE CXone
, telephone voice recording,

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, surveillance, and

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as well as systems that analyze recorded data. The company serves various industries, such as financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, outsourcers, retail, media, travel, service providers, and utilities. The primary listing of the company's shares is on the

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; where it is part of the

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Barak Eilam Barak Eilam is an American–Israeli executive. He is the chief executive officer of NICE (NASDAQ:NICE) He became the CEO in 2014, after spending over 15 years with the company. Eilam led the transformation and strategy of evolving NICE into a ...

became

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in April 2014, replacing Zeevi Bregman. Eilam previously headed the company's Americas division. As of November, 2020 the company had ~6,800 employees.

History

NICE was founded in 1986 as Neptune Intelligence Computer Engineering (NICE) by 7 Israeli former

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colleagues. The company initially focused on developing technology for

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applications, but soon refocused their efforts on civilian applications, mainly for contact center,

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and

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markets.

References

External links

Official website

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