Avistar Partners With NICE to Provide Compliance & Risk Management Solutions for Voice over IP Interactions in Videoconferencing

SAN MATEO, Calif., April 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Avistar Communications Corporation , has announced that it has partnered with NICE, a leading global provider of advanced solutions that enable organizations to extract “Insight from Interactions” to drive performance, and to provide a compliance and risk management solution for the Voice over IP portion of videoconferencing for trading floors and back offices. The new offering enables organizations to avoid the need to update software at the desktop, and leverage investments in existing communications and compliance systems.”Evolving compliance law means that in addition to recording voice calls, financial services companies must also be able to capture the audio element of the video calls that today form part of regular trading floor communications at many firms, in Americas, EMEA and APAC,” said Darren Innes, general manager of worldwide sales at Avistar.About Avistar Communications CorporationAvistar creates technology that provides the missing critical element in unified communications: bringing people in organizations face-to-face, through enhanced communications, for true collaboration anytime, anyplace. Its latest product, Avistar C3, draws on over a decade of market experience to deliver a single-click desktop videoconferencing and collaboration experience that moves business communications into a new era. Available as a stand-alone solution, or integrated with existing unified communications software from other vendors, Avistar C3 users gain instant messaging-style ability to initiate video communications across and outside the enterprise. Patented bandwidth management enables thousands of users to access desktop videoconferencing, Voice over IP (VoIP) and streaming media, without requiring substantial new network investment or impairing network performance.Avistar’s desktop videoconferencing and collaboration installations are among the world’s largest, including more than 18,000 seats in more than 40 countries. Clients report as much as a 20 percent reduction in travel expense and carbon emissions, increases in productivity, and immeasurably improved relationship building within their organizations, as well as with suppliers and customers. Avistar holds a portfolio of 80 patents for inventions in video and network technology and licenses IP to videoconferencing, rich-media services, public networking and related industries. Current licensees include Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI), Polycom, Inc., Tandberg ASA, Radvision Ltd. and Emblaze-VCON. For more information, visit . About NICE SystemsNICE Systems is the leading provider of Insight from Interactions solutions and value-added services, powered by the convergence of advanced analytics of unstructured multimedia content and transactional data — from telephony, web, email, radio, video, and other data sources. NICE’s solutions address the needs of the enterprise and security markets, enabling organizations to operate in an insightful and proactive manner, and take immediate action to improve business and operational performance and ensure safety and security. NICE has over 24,000 customers in more than 135 countries, including over 85 of the Fortune 100 companies. More information is available at . Avistar Communications Corporation