NICE has announced the company has been recognized with two ‘ASTORS’ Awards for NICE Inform and NICE Investigate, in the 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program.

Sponsored by American Security Today, the ‘ASTORS’ Awards recognize outstanding product development achievements and exciting new technologies that support law enforcement agencies, first responders and other government entities in their mission to keep cities and communities safe and secure.

For the fourth year in a row, NICE solutions have been recognized with ‘ASTORS’ Awards.

The NICE Inform Intelligence Center was named Best 911 Recording and Analytics Solution, and NICE Investigate received the top award in the Best Investigation category.

NICE Inform: Best 911 Recording and Analytics Solution

This year, NICE Inform was recognized for its newly introduced Intelligence Center.

Built from the ground up for emergency communications centers, the NICE Inform Intelligence Center puts powerful real-time analytical tools and metrics within reach of 911 center managers, making it easy to identify, understand, and address the factors that drive operational performance and contribute to success.

The Intelligence Center breaks down the barriers of bringing together, analyzing and acting on data – by leveraging GIS mapping and consolidating information from Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD), phone, radio, and the NICE multimedia recording solution.

Web-based dashboards provide up-to-the-minute snapshots of key performance metrics to help 911 center managers gauge performance, better align staffing needs, influence funding decisions, and support and defend actions taken.

NICE Inform offers a full suite of solutions for incident recording, quality assurance and incident analytics.

(Hear from John Rennie, General Manager of Public Safety at NICE discuss the capabilities of the NICE Inform Intelligence Center. Courtesy of NICE and YouTube.)

NICE Investigate: Best Investigation Solution

NICE also took home top honors in the Best Investigation Solution category for its NICE Investigate cloud-based Community Portal.

Police investigators can use the Community Portal to create public appeals for active investigations, enabling citizens to easily upload videos, photos and tips.

Businesses and citizens can also use the Community Portal to register their video cameras and share video evidence, so investigators don’t have to travel to the scene to manually retrieve, copy and convert video.

NICE Investigate makes proprietary video instantly useable for investigations by automatically transcoding it into a standard format.

NICE Investigate is a comprehensive, scalable, CJIS-compliant, cloud-based, end-to-end solution for managing investigations and digital evidence.

“We’re thrilled that our public safety solutions have been recognized by the ‘ASTORS’ awards for the fourth consecutive year,” said Chris Wooten, Executive Vice President, NICE.

“Whether handling emergency calls at the onset of an incident or conducting investigations after-the-fact, public safety agencies around the world rely on NICE solutions every day to help ensure the safety of citizens and communities.”

Over 25,000 organizations in more than 150 countries, including over 85 of the Fortune 100 companies, are using NICE solutions to deliver better customer service, ensure compliance, combat fraud and safeguard citizens.

To Learn More about the NICE Inform Intelligence Center or NICE Investigate Digital Evidence Management solution, visit https://www.nice.com/protecting/public-safety/, or Email PSInfo@NICE.com for more information.

NICE Inform & NICE Investigate Receive ‘ASTORS’ Honors for Fourth Consecutive Year

NICE

• Best 911 Recording & Analytics

• NICE Inform Intelligence Center

• The NICE Inform Intelligence Center puts powerful real-time analytical tools and metrics within reach of 911 center managers, making it easy to identify, understand, and address the factors that drive operational performance and contribute to success.

• Best Investigation/ Surveillance/Detection Product

• NICE Investigate

• The NICE Investigate Digital Investigation and Digital Evidence Mgmt Software (DEMS) Solution automates the entire digital investigation and evidence management process, helping investigators close more cases faster.

• *NICE was also recognized with Platinum Awards in the 2018 and 2017 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Programs.

The 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program surpassed expectations with a record number of nominations received from industry leaders and government agencies, and drew over 200 attendees to the ‘ASTORS’ Awards Presentation Banquet – an exclusive gourmet luncheon and networking opportunity which filled to capacity, before having to turn away late registrants.

The event featured an impassioned and compelling keynote address by William J. Bratton, former police commissioner of the New York Police Department (NYPD) twice, the Boston Police Department (BPD), and former chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), as he walked attendees through 50 years of American policing history, the impacts on the communities, and the evolution of critical communication capabilities in our post 9/11 landscape.

Commissioner Bratton, one of the world’s most respected and trusted experts on risk and security issues and Executive Chairman of Teneo Risk a global advisory firm, was recognized as the ‘2019 ‘ASTORS’ Person of the Year’ for his Lifetime of Dedication and Extraordinary Leadership in Homeland Security and Public Safety.

Why the 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program?

American Security Today’s comprehensive Annual Homeland Security Awards Program is organized to recognize the most distinguished vendors of physical, IT, port security, law enforcement, and first responders, in acknowledgment of their outstanding efforts to ‘Keep our Nation Secure, One City at a Time.’

Over 200 distinguished guests representing Federal, State and Local Governments, and Industry Leading Corporate Firms, gathered from across North America, Europe and the Middle East to be honored among their peers in their respective fields which included: 

• The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
• National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC)
• United States Marine Corps
• The Federal Protective Service (FPS)
• Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
• United States Postal Inspection Service
• DHS S&T 
• United States Marshals Service (USMS)
• The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey Police (PAPD)
• The Department of Justice (DOJ)
• The New York State Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Services (NYS DHSES)
• United States Border Patrol
• AlertMedia, Ameristar Perimeter Security, Attivo Networks, Automatic Systems, Bellevue University, BriefCam, Canon U.S.A., CornellCookson, Drone Aviation, FLIR Systems, Hanwha Techwin, HID Global, IPVideo Corp., Konica Minolta Business Solutions, LenelS2, ManTech, Regroup Mass Notifications, SafeLogic, SolarWinds, Senstar, ShotSpotter, Smiths Detection, TCOM LP, Trackforce, Verint, and More!

Why American Security Today?

The traditional security marketplace has long been covered by a host of publications putting forward the old school basics to what is Today – a fast changing security landscape.

The traditional security marketplace has long been covered by a host of publications putting forward the old school basics to what is Today – a fast changing security landscape.

American Security Today is uniquely focused on the broader Homeland Security & Public Safety marketplace with over 75,000 readers at the Federal, State and local levels of government as well as firms allied to government.

American Security Today brings forward a fresh compelling look and read with our customized digital publications that hold readers eyes throughout the story with cutting edge editorial that provides solutions to their challenges.

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The AST Digital Publications is distributed to over 75,000 qualified government and homeland security professionals in federal, state and local levels.

‘PROTECTING OUR NATION, ONE CITY AT A TIME’

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Today’s new generation of public safety and security experts need real-time knowledge to deal with domestic and international terrorism, lone wolf attacks, unprecedented urban violence, shifts in society, culture and media bias – making it increasingly difficult for Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, First Responders, Military and Private Security Professionals to implement coordinated security measures to ensure national security and improve public safety.

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Other areas of concern include Transportation Hubs, Public Assemblies, Government Facilities, Sporting & Concert Stadiums, our Nation’s Schools & Universities, and Commercial Business Destinations – all enticing targets due to the large number of persons and resources clustered together.

To learn more about the 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Award Winners solutions, Be on the lookout for the 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Championship Edition Magazine – the Best Products of 2019 ‘A Year in Review’.

The ‘ASTORS’ Champion Edition is published annually in December and includes a review of programs, feature details on many of the winning firms, video interviews and more.

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