NICE Customer Excellence Winners Recognized for Creating Perfect Experiences and Driving Business Impact

Industry-leading companies will be honored at Interactions 2015, where they will also share their success stories

The keynote lineup at NICE's customer conference will include speakers from Verizon and U.S. Bancorp Fund Services

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Apr 29, 2015, 07:00 ET

PARAMUS, N.J., April 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- NICE Systems (NASDAQ: NICE) today announced the winners of the 2015 NICE Customer Excellence Awards, recognizing organizations that demonstrated outstanding innovation and business performance using the company's Customer Engagement Analytics solutions. The winners will be honored at Interactions 2015, NICE's annual customer conference, taking place in San Antonio, Texas on June 1-4.

The 15 award recipients, representing a broad cross-section of service industries, were selected for their achievements in the categories of business impact, implementation, customer experience, and portfolio innovation. Among some of the noteworthy achievements this year:

eBay Enterprise improved its sales closing rates by 32 percent, alongside a 14 percent improvement in customer satisfaction using NICE Interaction Analytics and Interaction Management, as well as NICE Quality Management.
American Airlines completed its implementation of a uniform NICE Performance Management solution across two merged airline company infrastructures in less than six months.
Grange Insurance increased customer service levels by more than 20 percent using NICE Workforce Management, while boosting agent evaluation scores with 33 percent more coaching hours.

Winners of the 2015 NICE Customer Excellence Awards:

Business Impact

AAA Oregon/Idaho

eBay Enterprise

Money Management International (MMI)

RDI Corporation

Portfolio Innovation

American Airlines

Pepco Holdings, Inc.

Waste Management

Implementation

Grupo Contax

Globe Telecom

Grange Insurance

SunTrust Banks

Customer Experience

DHL Express Russia

Porto Seguro

U.S. Bancorp Fund Services

Western Union

Tom Dziersk, President of NICE Americas
"Representing financial services, the airline industry, postal services, telecommunications, and more, this year's winners have shown us how to create perfect customer experiences while also improving the bottom line, each in their own field. We are very thankful to the Customer Excellence Award winners for agreeing to share their insights with the rest of our customers and partners at Interactions 2015."

Interactions 2015 will feature 13 different tracks and more than 100 breakout sessions, over half of them led by industry experts and NICE customers, including many of the Customer Excellence Award winners. The keynote lineup includes presenters from Verizon and U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, who will share their company's approach to customer engagement and creating the perfect experience.

For more information and to register for Interactions 2015, please visit www.nice.com/interactions.

About Interactions 2015
Held in cooperation with the NICE User Group (NUG), this year's event is expected to draw over 2,000 attendees, including major industry leaders from all service sectors. The three focal points of the conference are: delivering outstanding customer experience, improving business results, and ensuring compliance. Participants can build their own tailored agendas, including selecting from a handful of executive forums, education sessions, and the one-day post-conference workshops. They can view solution demos at the Showcase, join the guided tours, and enjoy a variety of networking opportunities.

About NICE Systems
NICE Systems (NASDAQ: NICE) is the worldwide leading provider of software solutions that enable organizations to take the next best action in order to improve customer experience and business results, ensure compliance, fight financial crime, and safeguard people and assets. NICE's solutions empower organizations to capture, analyze, and apply, in real time, insights from both structured and unstructured Big Data. This data comes from multiple sources, including phone calls, mobile apps, emails, chat, social media, video, and transactions. NICE solutions are used by over 25,000 organizations in more than 150 countries, including over 80 of the Fortune 100 companies. www.nice.com.

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