| Type | Public NASDAQ: VRNT |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software Business Intelligence Speech Analytics Video Analytics Business consulting IT consulting |
| Founded | 2002 |
| Headquarters | Melville, New York, USA |
| Key people | Dan Bodner, President and CEO |
| Revenue | $727 million |
| Total assets | Over $1 billion |
| Employees | 2,800 |
| Website | www.verint.com |
Verint Systems (NASDAQ: VRNT) is a company providing analytic software and hardware for the security, surveillance, and business intelligence markets.[1] Their products are aimed to support government and enterprises in making sense of the vast information they collect to meet performance and security goals. Verint solutions are used by more than 10,000 organizations in 150 countries.[2] Verint is headquartered in Melville, New York, with offices worldwide and some 2,800 employees around the globe. Verint is a 57 percent-owned subsidiary of Comverse Technology[3] and it was formerly known as Comverse Infosys.[4] As with Comverse, approximately half of Verint's employees have been located in Israel.[4]
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Verint's products include speech analysis software (used for IVR systems) and IP surveillance cameras and "smart" video surveillance analysis software [5][6][7]
Verint's RELIANT software provides law enforcement agencies with the ability to monitor and analyze voice, video, and data for a "vast number of targets" on all types of large, complex computer networks, in order to collect evidence for CALEA wiretaps.[8] Multiple national governments including the U.S., U.K., and various European,Asian, and Pacific nations have purchased millions of dollars in Verint surveillance software and equipment.[9][10][11][12]
Verint has also received millions of dollars in government contracts to outfit airports, shipping ports, and government facilities with intelligent video surveillance systems with tracking, biometrics, and video analysis features. For example, Unisys chose Verint as a subcontractor on its contract with the Transportation Security Administration, to install video surveillance devices in secure areas of airports across the U.S.[13]
In July 2009, AMR Research ranked Verint 20th in its list of the top 50 global enterprise application vendors.[14] During the latter portion of the decade of the 2000s, the company has won several awards from CRM Magazine.[15]
In 2011, Verint announced the launch of enhancements to its Nextiva Video Business Intelligence solution. The solution is part of the Nextiva IP Video portfolio from Verint Video Intelligence solutions. [16]
Verint origins are in Comverse Technology's Comverse Infosys business unit, which was created in 1999[17] although it was also incorporated in Delaware in February 1994 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Comverse Technology. Verint’s initial focus was on the commercial call recording market, which at the time was transitioning from analog tape to digital recorders. In 1999, Comverse Infosys expanded into the security market by combining with another division of Comverse focused on the communications interception market. In 2001, Verint expanded its security offering into video security through a combination of its business with Loronix Information Systems, Inc., which had been previously acquired by Comverse. In 2002, Comverse Infosys changed its name to Verint Systems Inc.[18]
Verint completed an IPO in May 2002, commencing its beginnings as a public company although it was still majority owned by Comverse Technology. Verint subsequently grew both organically and through acquisitions. Since 2006, these acquisitions included: the networked video security business of Hong Kong-based MultiVision Intelligent Surveillance Limited; CM Insight Limited, a UK-based, customer management solution provider; Mercom Systems Inc., a provider of interaction recording and performance evaluation solutions for small-to-midsize contact centers and public safety centers; ViewLinks Euclipse Ltd., an Israeli-based provider of data mining and link analysis software solutions. Verint’s largest acquisition was of Witness Systems, Inc. in May 2007, which strengthened Verint’s leadership position in the enterprise workforce optimization market. A subsequent acquisition was of Iontas, in early 2010, a provider of desktop analytics solutions[19].
Beginning with a stock options backdating scandal in 2006, parent company Comverse Technology suffered a series of financial reporting problems, losses and layoffs, with one consequence that both Comverse and Verint were delisted from the NASDAQ stock market in 2007 and ended up on the Pink Sheets.[20] In July 2010, Verint was relisted on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol VRNT.[21] By that year, there was considerable talk that Comverse Technology would sell its remaining interest in Verint, with some private equity firms mentioned as possible buyers.[3][22]
In 2011, Verint Systems acquired Global Management Technologies Corporation. [23] The software company paid $24.6 million for GMT.