Alcatel-Lucent S.A. is a French global telecommunications equipment company, headquartered in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. The company focuses on fixed, mobile, and converged networking hardware, IP technologies, software and services, with operations in more than 130 countries. It had been named Industry Group Leader for Technology Hardware & Equipment sector in the 2014 Dow Jones Sustainability Indices review Alcatel-Lucent also owns Bell Laboratories, one of the largest research and development facilities in the communications industry, whose employees have been awarded eight Nobel Prizes and the company holds in excess of 29,000 patents.
NICE Systems, Limited is an Israel-based company, specialising in telephone voice recording, data security, and surveillance. As well as systems that analyse this recorded data. The company serves various industries, such as financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, outsourcers, retail, media, travel, service providers, and utilities. On July 28, 2009, Ze'ev Bregman was appointed as CEO, replacing Haim Shani, who stepped down to become the general manager of the Ministry of Finance of the State of Israel.
