# NiCE (NICE Ltd.) — corporate profile (Wikipedia) > *Wikipedia's profile of NiCE (formerly NICE Systems Ltd.), used here as a secondary/tertiary reference for the company's founding, naming history, listing, leadership, scale, and post-divestiture pivot toward customer-experience and financial-crime software. It documents the 1986 founding as "Neptune Intelligence Computer Engineering," the 1991 rename to NICE Systems Ltd., the 1996 NASDAQ listing, and — critically for separating NICE's businesses — that in September 2015 (the same period as the Elbit/Cyberbit sale) NICE also sold its physical-security unit, which became Qognify, while the company refocused on CXone/Actimize. It matters to the Arkansas surveillance investigation as a corporate-lineage map of the public-safety/evidence vendor NICE, distinguishing it from the intelligence and physical-security arms it shed in 2015. (Treated as Tier 3; specific transaction terms in this archive are corroborated by the primary SEC/Elbit filings also captured for this cell.)* ## Source metadata - **Publisher:** Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org); article title "NiCE" (redirected from "NICE Ltd.") - **URL:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NICE_Ltd. - **Archived:** 2026-06-07 via firecrawl_scrape (markdown); page revision oldid=1357643924 - **Tier:** 3 (encyclopedia / secondary-tertiary reference) ## Extract — verbatim (lightly cleaned) Infobox: "Company type: Public | Traded as: Nasdaq: NICE; TASE: NICE | Industry: Software | Founded: 1986 | Headquarters: Hoboken, New Jersey, United States | Key people: David Kostman (chairman); Scott Russell (CEO) | Products: NiCE CXone, NiCE Actimize, CXone Mpower, Cognigy | Services: Customer experience software, contact-center software, workforce engagement management, anti-money laundering software | Revenue: $2.8 billion (2024) | Number of employees: 8,400 (2024)" "NiCE is an American technology company specializing in customer relations management software (NiCE CXone), artificial intelligence, and digital and workforce engagement management." "The company was first listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange in 1996." History: "NiCE was founded in 1986 as Neptune Intelligence Computer Engineering (NICE) in Israel; later, on October 14, 1991, the Company was renamed NICE Systems Ltd with the acronym no longer in active use." "Much of the early technology developed by NiCE was for contact centers, financial services and business intelligence markets. ... In 2007, NiCE acquired Actimize for $280 million. The company developed risk management software for various markets." "In 2014, Zeevi Bregman left his role as CEO, to be replaced by Barak Eilam who previously served as President ... before becoming CEO." "The physical security business unit (NICE Security) was sold to private equity firm Battery Ventures in September 2015 and changed its name to Qognify. Qognify has since been acquired by Hexagon AB in 2023." "On June 6, 2016, the company was renamed NiCE Ltd and acquired inContact for a reported $960 million." "In 2021 ... NiCE receiving a valuation of $17 billion, making it the most valuable company in Israel." Products and services: "NiCE specializes in AI and customer experience (CX) software. ... CXone is part of NiCE's product offering. ... The platform provides customer service automation."