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Verint Advances Customer Engagement Optimization Portfolio with New Release of Telligent Social Community Software
[January 19, 2016]

Verint Advances Customer Engagement Optimization Portfolio with New Release of Telligent Social Community Software


Verint® Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: VRNT) and Telligent®, A Verint Company, today announced a major new release of its Telligent Community solution. Among the latest advancements to Telligent Community are new community management tools and user experience capabilities, workflow enhancements, new content management and moderation functionality, and ongoing API investments, as well as solution availability in a Community as a Service (CaaS) model.

These advancements-which mark a milestone in the ongoing innovation of solutions focused on customer and employee communities-are designed to further organizations' use of actionable intelligence that flows through their communities as they focus on the advancement of strategic objectives, such as gaining a holistic view of customer service effectiveness, integrating social experiences on the web and supporting digital transformation initiatives.

The Telligent Community social software platform-which is available in SaaS (News - Alert), on-premises and now CaaS deployment models-enables customer service and digital marketing organizations within a business to create compelling, online, branded communities for customers, partners and employees to collaborate and engage. This new release marks the first community product introduction to follow the acquisition of Telligent by Verint in 2015.

Community Management Advancements for Increased Efficiency

The suite of Telligent applications and services features advanced management capabilities designed to reduce the time and resources required to manage the community. Among these are new moderation functionality, updates to leaderboards, search engine optimization (SEO) updates, new content management tools, and enhancements to question and answer (Q&A) workflow for customer support use cases. All of these enhancements are designed to free the community owner to spend more time with customers.

Staging and Publishing Workflow Enhancements to Simplify Deployments

New workflow capabilities in the Telligent solution enable users to stage and preview changes and updates to the community prior to rolling them out into live user environments. For Telligent customers upgrading from previous versions or upgrading widgets, these staging and publishing enhancements can save valuable time and effort, and simply workflow and deployment.

Addition of Intelligent Content Management and Moderation Capabilities

Also new to Telligent Community is the introduction of analytics, user reputation and abuse reporting to enhance and simplify workflow associated with moderating content and users. These expanded moderation capabilities provide services across all content published within the commuity and add a process that enables content authors to appeal when content is incorrectly moderated. This represents yet another advancement designed to ease the workload of the community manager.



New Community as a Service Offering

In addition, the Telligent solution is now available in a Community as a Service (CaaS) model. By using CaaS, organizations can benefit from the full suite of applications, services and management tools offered by Telligent Community. The CaaS offering is a Telligent managed service solution that enables customers and partners, and their developers, to build the unique, creative community experiences they desire.


Ongoing Investment in the API Economy

For developers, the solution features a host of advancements, including moving many of Telligent Community's integrations to open source on GitHub. It also has new editors for managing content, as well as editors for managing all design elements, such as CSS (News - Alert). Further enhancements involve expanded APIs, WebHooks and application tracing, all designed to simplify development efforts for customers and partners that want to build on the Telligent platform. The solution also includes updates to its widget studio functionality for managing the full user experience.

"Telligent is delighted to bring these new capabilities to market as we continue to invest in and grow our business in social software for customer and employee communities," says Rob Howard, vice president and general manager for social communities, Verint (News - Alert) Enterprise Intelligence Solutions. "These latest advancements are designed to offer our customers more deployment model options, enable 100 percent customization and simplified management, and add advanced functionality for sharing ideas and feedback."

Customer communities serve as a natural extension to customer engagement optimization, and today, only Verint offers communities as part of a comprehensive platform with ties to engagement management, customer analytics and workforce optimization. Using the Telligent solutions, organizations can uniquely provide actionable intelligence across customers' omnichannel experiences to include voice, chat, email, web self-service, and customer and employee communities. Leveraging community software, companies can foster customer-to-customer and employee-to-employee collaboration and trust, support and drive enhanced self-service and social support, lower service costs, and enable destinations for dynamic digital marketing campaigns, while fostering new levels of customer and employee engagement.

Upcoming Webcast to Highlight Telligent Community Enhancements

On January 27, 2016 at 11 am ET, Telligent will host a live webcast highlighting the latest additions and enhancements to its social community software. Click here for more information and registration details.

About Telligent, A Verint Company

Telligent®, A Verint® Company, is a leader in software for customer support and digital marketing communities. Its social software solutions help bring together modern collaboration technologies into a single integrated suite that includes social applications and social services that enable organizations to create communities of interest for their customers. Telligent's solutions include both external customer and internal employee communities. These solutions, which have been adopted by large and well-known brands, deliver an advanced suite of commercial social software applications-including forums, wikis and blogs, and social services-such as likes, ratings and comments. Learn more at www.telligent.com.

About Verint Systems Inc.

Verint® is a global leader in Actionable Intelligence®, which has become a necessity in a dynamic world of massive information growth. By empowering organizations with crucial insights, Verint solutions enable decision makers to anticipate, respond and take action, and make more informed, effective and timely decisions. Our solutions are designed to address three important areas of the actionable intelligence market: customer engagement optimization; security intelligence; and fraud, risk and compliance. Verint's vision is to create A Smarter World with Actionable Intelligence®, and today, more than 10,000 organizations in over 180 countries-including over 80 percent of the Fortune 100-already benefit from this vision. Learn more at www.verint.com and NASDAQ: VRNT.

This press release contains "forward-looking statements," including statements regarding expectations, predictions, views, opportunities, plans, strategies, beliefs, and statements of similar effect relating to Verint Systems Inc. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and they are based on management's expectations that involve a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions, any of which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in or implied by the forward-looking statements. For a detailed discussion of these risk factors, see our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2015, our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended October 31, 2015, and other filings we make with the SEC (News - Alert). The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release and, except as required by law, Verint assumes no obligation to update or revise them or to provide reasons why actual results may differ.

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