The financial trading market can now benefit from sophisticated voice recording facilities built in to their trading systems.
Dimension Data`s multimedia communications company Videre has announced the first built-in fully integrated voice recording solution for the financial trading market.
"The Alliance MX, developed by our suppliers IPC and NICE, is the first trading system to have recording technologies built into the telephone switch, offering the highest quality, fully integrated, voice recording system available in the market," says Evan Hodkinson, business manager at Videre.
"Full solution integration is clearly the future direction of all switching systems for the trading environment," he says. "The Alliance MX Voice Recorder increases recording capacities ten times more than anything in the marketplace today."
IPC Information Systems, the world`s leading supplier of voice trading systems to the financial community, and NICE Systems, a global provider of financial and contact center recording and quality management solutions, recently concluded an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) agreement to supply IPC with the Alliance MX Voice Recorder system. Together IPC and NICE are delivering a seamless, highly reliable, feature-rich and easy to operate solution.
"IPC is the first to introduce sophisticated voice recording integrated within trading systems. With NICE`s technology, IPC has been able to create the highest performance recording solution available in the trading market, " says Hodkinson.
NICE and IPC have been strategic partners for six years. Combined, their joint customers comprise the world`s leading financial organisations. Videre, building on the strength of its suppliers` solutions, has a large installed base, including financial groups such as Absa and Gensec.
Alliance MX Voice Recorder
Major features and benefits of the Alliance MX Voice Recorder include:
High Bandwidth Digital Voice Recording; Largest Simultaneous Channel Capacity available in today`s market; Fault tolerant back up, built-in redundant power supply, redundant BUS ready, Hot Standby Recorder Available; Over 33,000 hours of on-line storage available; Over a thousand channels per single BUS; Windows NT system base.
Dimension Data Holdings
Dimension Data Holdings Limited is a global network integration and e-business enabler operating in 36 countries on five continents. The Group`s service offerings range from network integration and management to the integration of technology channels and applications to enable business-to-business e-commerce. The Group has achieved a compound annual growth rate of 98% in turnover and 57% in headline earnings per share over the past five years.
Videre
Videre, a division of Dimension Data, is the leading supplier of audio and video communication solutions to the local market. The company distributes PictureTel and Polycom videoconferencing, audiovisual and dealing room solutions (including IPC and NICE) and is a gold partner to Cisco.
NICE Systems
NICE Systems (NASDAQ: NICE) is a leading global provider of integrated digital recording and quality management solutions. NICE`s innovative solutions help customers improve their business by effectively recording, storing, evaluating and managing voice communications, call data, desktop screens and video. NICE serves the business needs of multiple markets, primarily financial institutions, customer contact centers, air traffic control (ATC) sites, public safety centers, and closed circuit television (CCTV) security installations. NICE`s corporate headquarters are based in Israel with subsidiary companies and local offices in the United States, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom and France.
Note: NICE is a registered trademark of NICE Systems Ltd.
IPC Information Systems
IPC Information Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of IPC Communications (Amex: IPI), is the world leader in the delivery of integrated multimedia communications solutions to the financial trading industry. IPC serves customers in more than 35 countries. Its patented digital Alliance MX(R) dealerboard is the most widely installed voice trading system in the world.
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