Case Study

Software specialist Goes from selling 'software' to providing enterprise solutions

NICE Systems, Inc. provides enterprise and security analytics solutions to 85% of the Fortune 500.  The company analyzes multimedia content such as web, telephony, radio and video communications to improve business performance and ensure safety and security.  NICE has 24,ooo customers in a 100 countries.

The need:
While their solutions were well accepted with the operational and IT teams in contact centers and 911 emergency response centers, NICE recognized that the larger value was in delivering insights and customer intelligence across the organization, and serving as a 'dashboard' of critical business and operational metrics.

To expand beyond the contact center environment, NICE needed to engage higher level business executives who wouldn't normally have interest in contact center software and systems.  At the same time, NICE needed to help the contact center management staff become more skilled in applying their solutions to the wider business needs.

The solutions:
To support NICE's overall sales and marketing effort, Eyal Danon developed two programs designed around NICE's strategy:

The NICE User Group created a highly active end users community, representing 2,500 customers and 1,000 companies worldwide.  The Group fostered enthusiasm for NICE solutions by allowing users to:  

 

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  • Build skills and exchange best practices and techniques with their peers in other companies.
  • Attend national and regional events dedicated to new training and applications strategies
  • Obtain certifications from NICE systems
  • Allow unparallel networking opportunities among members
  • Have a direct say in the product road map and become real partners to NICE’s R&D in designing and working on next generation business intelligence solutions

 

NICE Executive Advisory Board 
an invitation-only group of top executives from NICE's most influential customers and prospects.  NICE used the Board to:

  • Introduce C-Level executives to the revealing types of data and intelligence that could be captured via NICE technologies
  • Foster discussions and insights into the business problems customers were trying to solve
  • Get feedback on potential capabilities and tools
  • Build trusted relationships in the C-Suite


The Results:

NICE credits the User and Executive program as pivotal to an impressive business growth that took the company from around $100M in sales in 2001 to over $500M in 2007. 

The programs also contributed to:

  • A substantial increase in market share in Fortune 500 Enterprises worldwide
  • An increase of global corporate Standardizing on NICE solutions
  • A Unique market differentiator as a “customer centric organization”
  • Validation of important strategy and road map decisions
  • An increase in customer references and improved customer satisfaction scores
 
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