NICE Selected for City of Baltimore Anti-Terrorism Project by Leading

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    RA'ANANA, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 17, 2005--NICE Systems (NASDAQ: NICE), the global provider of advanced solutions that enable organizations to extract insight from interactions today announced that it has been selected by M.C. Dean, Inc., one of the nation's leading electronic systems integrators, to provide its digital video solutions for the Baltimore Region Anti-Terrorism CCTV Installation, Operation, and Service project. The network is part of a comprehensive strategy in the Baltimore area to improve regional cooperation on terrorism concerns.
    The City of Baltimore will apply NICE's capabilities to enhance the CCTV security provision at public areas, including rail lines, government buildings and cultural institutions. The solution will allow Baltimore's command and control centers to extract security insight from video interactions by simultaneously monitoring multiple sites, with smart monitoring capabilities and automatic alarm management.
    NICE's solution, with advanced transmission, recording and content analysis capabilities will deliver real-time alerts on potential threats to security personnel. The moments leading up to an alert will be automatically replayed allowing staff to intuitively investigate an incident, understand its context and cause and, more importantly, decide what action to take. Such proactive management and assessment of alarms and the correlating potential risk will enable Baltimore's security personnel to anticipate security breaches and improve response time. The result is enhanced safety and security for the region's residents.
    "NICE provided us with a total solution that incorporates not only the required camera controls and recording capabilities, but also a content analysis feature that allows us to monitor and manage multiple cameras more efficiently by distinguishing between activities of interest and normal events," said Rhett Wade, General Manager of M.C. Dean, Inc.'s Security and Electronics Division.
    M.C. Dean, Inc. is currently integrating NICE systems into several other projects in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area.
    "Baltimore's initiative powerfully demonstrates how advanced content analytics along superior digital video performance can significantly increase the speed of threat detection and efficiency of corrective action," says Ian Ehrenberg, vice president and general manager of NICE's digital video security division, US. "NICE's video solutions are the preferred choice of local, state and federal officials for video content analytics and they are turning to NICE to support their effort in enhancing security and protecting the public."

    About M.C. Dean, Inc.

    M.C. Dean, Inc., headquartered in Dulles, Va., is a leader in the design, installation, and integration of complex homeland security, electronics, power, and telecommunications systems. The firm has extensive experience in providing services to state and local governments, and uniformed and civilian Federal agencies, institutions, and large commercial customers. The firm has 1,600 employees and provides services from 11 offices throughout the MidAtlantic, Southeast, and Europe. More information is available at www.mcdean.com.

    About NICE

    NICE Systems (NASDAQ: NICE) is the leading provider of Insights from Interactions, based on advanced content analytics - of telephony, web, radio and video communications. NICE's solutions improve business and operational performance, as well as security. NICE has over 15,000 customers in 100 countries, including the world's top 10 banks and 65% of the Fortune 100. More information is available at www.nice.com.

    Trademark Note: 360degree View, Agent@home, Big Picture Technology, Executive Connect, Executive Insight(a), Experience Your Customer, Investigator, Lasting Loyalty, Listen Learn Lead, MEGACORDER, Mirra, My Universe, NICE, NiceAdvantage, NICE Analyzer, NiceContact, NiceCLS, NiceCMS, NICE Feedback, NiceFix, NiceGuard, NICE Learning, NICE Link, NiceLog, NICE Perform, ScreenSense, NiceScreen, NiceSoft, NICE Storage Center, NiceTrack, NiceUniverse, NiceUniverse LIVE, NiceVision, NiceVision Harmony, NiceVision Mobile, NiceVision Pro, NiceVision Virtual, NiceWatch, Renaissance, Secure Your Vision, Tienna, Wordnet and other product names and services mentioned herein are trademarks and registered trademarks of NICE Systems Ltd. All other registered and unregistered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
    (a)In Australia only

    This press release contains forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements are based on the current expectations of the management of NICE Systems Ltd. (the Company) only, and are subject to a number of risk factors and uncertainties, including but not limited to changes in technology and market requirements, decline in demand for the Company's products, inability to timely develop and introduce new technologies, products and applications, difficulties or delays in absorbing and integrating acquired operations, products, technologies and personnel, loss of market share, pressure on pricing resulting from competition, and inability to maintain certain marketing and distribution arrangements, which could cause the actual results or performance of the Company to differ materially from those described therein. We undertake no obligation to update these forward-looking statements. For a more detailed description of the risk factors and uncertainties affecting the company, refer to the Company's reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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CONTACT: Media: NICE Systems Galit Sadan, ++972-9-775-3745 galit.sadan@nice.com or NICE Systems, Inc. Sherry Satterwhite, 1 (201) 914 9577 sherry.satterwhite@nice.com or Investors: NICE Systems Amit Scheinmann, ++972-9-775-3026 ir@nice.com

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