January 23, 2008

 

Yet another major financial services company is expanding its use of NICE Systems’ (News - Alert) workforce optimization solutions.

Leading U.S. online investment brokerage firm Scottrade has placed an order for NICE SmartCenter, a suite of applications including performance management, workforce management, call recording/monitoring, analytics and customer feedback. This tightly bundled suite of solutions enables organizations to boost employee performance, improve customer service, find operational efficiencies and increase customer satisfaction and loyalty – all of which leads to increased revenue and profits. Scottrade will deploy the solution in its National Service Center and across all 336 of its branch offices. The solution will be implemented in a VoIP environment and will be deployed together with NICE long-time partner, Avaya (News - Alert).

Scottrade needed an advanced solution to help it meet the challenges arising from the growing complexities of operating its business. With SmartCenter’s performance management and analytics capabilities, the company will be able to quickly address agent performance issues and then resolve those issues through targeted agent coaching and training. With the analytics component, it will also gain valuable insights into customer behavior, as well as to get a better glimpse of the customer service experience it delivers. In addition, the performance management component will enable Scottrade to create a set of integrated reports for a unified view of its business operations.

“We strive to provide the best customer service in the industry, and we view NICE SmartCenter as a key driver in helping us achieve our strategic goals and in exceeding our customers' expectations,” said Ian Patterson, CIO, Scottrade, in a press release.

This is about the sixth major order NICE Systems has won from a financial services company in the past seven weeks. The company has announced at least five major “multi-million dollar” deals with unnamed banks and financial institutions since early December. This includes its announcement earlier this month that two of the top three largest U.S. banks are now using NICE Perform, part of NICE SmartCenter, as well as an enterprise fraud solution from Actimize, which NICE acquired in August.

For more information about NICE Systems, visit www.nice.com.

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