Leading North American Emergency Medical Services Provider British Columbia Ambulance Service Selects NICE Inform for Improv...( RA'ANANA Israel June 2 /- NICE Sy...)

RA'ANANA, Israel, June 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NICE Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ: NICE), the global provider of advanced solutions that enable organizations to extract Insight from Interactions to drive performance, today announced that the British Columbia Ambulance Service (BCAS), the sole ambulance service and provider of pre-hospital emergency care in the Province of British Columbia, Canada, has selected NICE Inform and other NICE solutions to capture and manage emergency communications at all of the BCAS emergency dispatch sites, upgrading from an existing implementation of NICE recording technology. The solutions will be used to capture and retain communications for immediate emergency call playback, as well as post-call investigation and analysis, in order to further improve service.

The British Columbia Ambulance Service is one of the largest Emergency Medical Services (EMS) services providers in North America, serving 4.3 million people in the Province's near one million-square kilometer area. BCAS' fast-paced emergency call centers operate 24/7 and are the first point of contact for citizens in British Columbia who require emergency pre-hospital care. BCAS handles more than a half-million calls for service annually, from four dispatch/communications centers based in Kamloops, Vancouver and Victoria. BCAS is also a major provider of inter-facility patient transfer service.

"When we looked at the existing systems in the market, it was clear that NICE was a leader in the industry. The leading-edge technology and consulting services were most impressive and crucial to us as we operate in a very complex networking environment," said Maurice Girard, Director, IT and Telecommunications, BC Ambulance Service. "We're also planning to add Voice over IP in the future and NICE offered a clear and seamless migration
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