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NICE (Nasdaq:NICE) continues to build upon its positive momentum and expand its clear leadership in the Contact Center Workforce Optimization (WFO) market, growing to 41.5 percent, according to the DMG Consulting LLC’s 2016/2017 Workforce Optimization Product and Market Report. This figure does not include inContact, which enjoys a market share of 3.4 percent, according to the report.

NICE WFO is comprised of tightly integrated solutions, enabling organizations of all sizes to improve on their effectiveness and efficiency, by identifying performance gaps, delivering targeted coaching, forecasting workloads and scheduling staff. NICE’s unique Adaptive WFO approach uses analytics-based modeling to dynamically personalize contact center processes, such as scheduling, coaching, training, evaluations and motivational incentives, based on the individual agent unique persona. NICE WFO can be deployed on-premise, or in a hosted or cloud environment.

Donna Fluss, President, DMG Consulting

“Key trends over the past two years are challenging the status quo in everything contact centers do, from how staff is recruited and scheduled to how they are rewarded and compensated. Enterprises are investing significant amounts of time and money into their service organizations, and they expect to see a payback. Although productivity and cost savings are clearly important to executives, they now appreciate that delivering great service is a top priority and the responsibility of everyone in the company.”

Miki Migdal, President, NICE Enterprise Group

“This report mirrors the momentum that we have been experiencing in the market. Adaptive WFO, our innovative approach to employee engagement, has garnered significant interest amongst customers and prospects. These organizations recognize that to achieve true efficiency and deliver outstanding customer service, they must incorporate advanced analytics and smart routing, which NICE provides to companies of all sizes and all verticals. In addition, these companies are either exploring or have begun a move to the cloud. NICE has proven to be the partner of choice with solutions which enable them to do so in an efficient and effective manner.”

About NICE

NICE (Nasdaq:NICE) is the worldwide leading provider of both cloud and on-premises enterprise software solutions that empower organizations to make smarter decisions based on advanced analytics of structured and unstructured data. NICE helps organizations of all sizes deliver better customer service, ensure compliance, combat fraud and safeguard citizens. Over 22,000 organizations in more than 150 countries, including over 80 of the Fortune 100 companies, are using NICE solutions. www.nice.com.

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