NICE

| May 18, 2016

"Israeli software provider Nice Systems is to buy U.S.-based inContact, a maker of cloud software for call centers, for about $940 million dollars. Nice said on Wednesday it would pay $14 per share in cash and would finance the deal with cash on hand as well as debt of up to $475 million. Shares in inContact closed at $9.01 on Nasdaq on Tuesday. Nice said the rationale for the purchase was to enhance customer service and offer what it described as a first fully integrated and complete cloud co...

NICE inContact | July 22, 2020

NICE inContact, a NICE business, and the leader in cloud contact center, today announced that is has been selected as the winner in the Innovations in Cloud Contact Centers category of the 2020 UK National Innovation Awards® for NICE inContact CXone, the world’s leading cloud customer experience platform. The UK National Innovation Awards®, presented by the Directors’ Club United Kingdom, recognize business technology innovations from around the world for their impact on cust...

ZDNet | January 14, 2020

DevOps Pulse is an annual analysis of the DevOps industry, conducted by logz.io. Findings from the 2019 version have just been published, and we take the opportunity to share and comment on them with Tomer Levy, logz.io CEO. Levy co-founded logz.io in 2014 and has managed to raise about $100 million and build a team of 250 people to date, on the premise of offering an open-source based solution for log management. The 2019 survey focuses on observability, bringing DevOps engineers' insights ...

VentureBeat | January 13, 2020

Google hopes to tap AI and machine learning to make speedy local weather predictions. In a paper and accompanying blog post, the tech giant detailed an AI system that uses satellite images to produce “nearly instantaneous” and high-resolution forecasts — on average, with a roughly one kilometer resolution and a latency of only 5-10 minutes. The researchers behind it say it outperforms traditional models “even at these early stages of development.” The system takes a...