raanana israel type public traded as tase nice nasdaq nice industry software business intelligence speech analytics video analytics business consulting it consulting founded 1986 ; 30 years ago 1986 headquarters ra anana israel key people david kostman chairman barak eilam president and ceo revenue 926 million 2015 operating income 171.4 million 2015 profit 258.8 million 2015 1 number of employees 4 122 2015 2 subsidiaries nice systems ltd. nice systems inc. nice actimize ltd. nicevision website www.nice.com nice ltd. 3 hebrew is an israel based company specialising in telephone voice recording data security and surveillance as well as systems that analyse this recorded data . 4 the company serves various industries such as financial services telecommunications healthcare outsourcers retail media travel service providers and utilities . the company s shares are traded on nasdaq 5 as well as on the tel aviv stock exchange ; where it is part of the ta 25 index . 6 barak eilam became ceo in april 2014 replacing zeevi bregman . eilam previously headed the company s americas division . 7 8 as of december 31 2015 the company has more than 4 122 employees worldwide . 9 contents 1 history 2 acquisitions 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit nice was founded in 1986 as neptune intelligence computer engineering nice by 7 israeli former army colleagues . the company initially focused on developing solutions for security and defense applications but soon refocused their efforts on civilian applications mainly for contact center financial services and business intelligence markets . and over the past 5 years or so has transformed from being a recordings infrastructure company to an enterprise software applications company such as oracle microsoft etc. the company crossed us 1 billion in bookings in 2013 . 10 acquisitions edit nice has made a number of acquisitions totaling 734 million from 2005 to 2011 including cash and stock paid july 31 2002 acquired thales contact solutions previously racal recorders in the uk for 53 million from the thales group . 11 june 1 2005 acquired dictaphone s communications recording systems crs assets for 42m . 12 september 1 2005 acquired hannamax hi tech for 3m . 13 january 4 2006 acquired fast video security for 33m . may 22 2006 acquired performix for 14m . july 7 2006 acquired iex corporation for 205m adding contact center workforce management and performance optimization solutions to its portfolio . august 30 2007 acquired actimize for 281m entering the fraud prevention anti money laundering and risk management solution markets . 14 april 8 2008 acquired quality plus group for 12m . august 31 2009 acquired hexagon system engineering ltd. for 11m . 15 september 1 2009 actimize acquired fortent for 73m . 16 february 15 2011 acquired cybertech international for 60m . 17 september 19 2011 acquired fizzback for 80m . december 2 2011 acquired merced systems for 150m . 18 october 22 2012 acquired redkite financial markets an emerging provider of real time cloud based institutional trade surveillance solutions . august 7 2013 acquired causata . 19 january 11 2016 acquired nexidia nice systems to buy analytics firm nexidia for 135 million in cash . 20 may 18 2016 acquired incontact software group nice systems to buy incontact for 940 million . 21 see also edit fico silicon wadi references edit nice systems ltd. nice . yahoo finance . 2016 . retrieved 21 june 2016 . nice systems ltd nice tel aviv . the wall street journal . 21 june 2016 . retrieved 21 june 2016 . http www.nice.com press releases nice systems ltd to change company name to nice ltd 192 http earningsview.blogspot.co.uk 2012 09 nice systems equity research.html http earningsview.blogspot.co.uk 2012 09 nice systems equity research.html http www.tase.co.il taseeng marketdata indices marketcap indexmaindatamarket.htm action 2 & indexid 137 scheer steven february 4 2014 . nice systems names americas chief barak eilam as ceo . thomson reuters . retrieved 11 april 2016 . nice systems nice ceo barak eilam on q1 2014 results earnings call transcript . seeking alpha . may 8 2014 . retrieved 11 april 2016 . zeev bregman to join nice systems july 28 2009 retrieved 2012 02 27 nice marks 20th anniversary retrieved 2009 10 09 nice systems to acquire thales contact solutions retrieved 2016 06 21 nice to acquire the assets of dictaphone s communications recording systems retrieved 2016 06 21 nice to acquire hannamax hi tech retrieved 2016 06 21 nice systems to acquire actimize reuters july 2 2007 retrieved 2009 10 09 nice to enhance security offering with the acquisition of hexagon retrieved 2010 05 22 nice systems and actimize acquire fortent sc magazine uk retrieved 2009 10 09 ben david calev february 15 2011 nice systems to acquire cybertech for 60 million bloomberg retrieved 2011 02 15 nice systems to acquire merced systems for up to 170m nice the wall street journal december 2 2011 retrieved 2011 12 02 nice to acquire causata to enable a seamless customer experience across the web and contact center august 7 2013 retrieved 2016 06 21 nice systems to buy analytics firm nexidia for 135 million in cash . retrieved january 11 2016 . software group nice systems to buy incontact for 940 million . retrieved 2016 06 21 . external links edit nice v t e companies of the ta 25 index companies of israel avner oil exploration azrieli group bezeq cellcom delek delek drilling elbit systems fibi frutarom gazit globe hapoalim israel chemicals israel corporation israel discount bank isramco leumi mizrahi tefahot nice opko health ormat technologies osem paz oil company perrigo company strauss group teva retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title nice systems & oldid 727228080 categories software companies of israelcompanies listed on nasdaqelectronics companies of israelsound recording technologycall recording softwareaudio storageair traffic controlfilm and video technologycompanies established 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