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Forrester and Verint Partner to Deliver Unprecedented Actionable Intelligence for Customer Experience Leaders

November 7, 2016 8:30 AM EST

Forrester CX Index Integrated with Verint Technology to Provide Best-in-Class Measurement, Benchmarking and Actions

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Research and advisory firm Forrester (Nasdaq: FORR) and Verint® Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: VRNT) today announced a partnership designed to provide a holistic approach to customer experience (CX) measurement and management. The partnership combines Forrester’s Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) methodology, benchmark data and engagement program with Verint Enterprise Feedback Management™ (EFM) to create a single source for organizations to collect, analyze and act on benchmark data.

“This partnership will have a significant influence on the future of customer experience because it breaks down the barriers that have always existed between technology and insight for industry-wide context,” says Roxana Strohmenger, VP, Customer Experience Index, Forrester. “Organizations have previously focused on CX as a business imperative with technology as an optional layer to help surface actionable intelligence, but those efforts lacked awareness of how the business stacked up within its own industry. Together, Verint and Forrester are combining insights and data that better gauge customer experience quality, the competitive landscape and what to improve in an organization’s CX program to drive incremental revenue.”

Forrester’s CX Index platform gives businesses a deep and actionable understanding of the quality of their customers’ experiences, competitive benchmark data and the ability to model which CX improvements will have the biggest impact on revenue. Verint’s robust EFM platform helps empower CX teams to listen, analyze and act on structured and unstructured customer feedback captured through targeted and personalized surveys. Through the partnership, organizations will have access to an integrated approach to CX management with the ability to more deeply understand the quality of their customer experience as compared to industry peers, and to take action to advance processes and service quality to enhance their positions.

Forrester’s CX Index is an established benchmark that measures customer experience quality and its effect on loyalty in three key areas:

  • Effectiveness – The experience delivers value to customers.
  • Ease – It’s easy for customers to get value from the experience.
  • Emotion – Customers feel good about their experience.

CX Index covers 17 separate industries (travel, financial services, retail, technology/telecom and others) in eight global markets, including the U.S., Canada, U.K., France, Germany, India, China and Australia.

Verint is an industry-leading provider of customer engagement and experience solutions and will embed Forrester’s CX Index platform into its Enterprise Feedback Management deployments. With this new capability, customers can deploy Forrester-developed scoring surveys to gauge their specific CX Index score. Data from the customer-specific surveys will be analyzed by Forrester, and scoring survey results will be displayed within the Verint EFM solution. This is part of an overall “Engagement Program” that will provide a customized evaluation to the customer that illustrates how its scores compare to the industry norm and key competitors—using a custom integration that Verint is building to the Forrester CX Index platform, which will also include recommendations for CX improvements.

“This exclusive partnership between Verint and Forrester is an industry first because it embeds the CX Index within our Enterprise Feedback Management solution, providing customers with best-of-breed technology and one of the most comprehensive CX benchmarks,” says Ben Smith, general manager, customer experience solutions, Verint. “This combination will not only help organizations measure themselves against industry peers and CX leaders from outside their industry, but also allow them to dig into improvement areas and measure the revenue impact of CX improvements—all through a single solution.”

About Forrester

Forrester (Nasdaq: FORR) is one of the most influential research and advisory firms in the world. We work with business and technology leaders to develop customer-obsessed strategies that drive growth. Forrester’s unique insights are grounded in annual surveys of more than 500,000 consumers and business leaders worldwide, rigorous and objective methodologies, and the shared wisdom of our most innovative clients. Through proprietary research, data, custom consulting, exclusive executive peer groups, and events, the Forrester experience is about a singular and powerful purpose: to challenge the thinking of our clients to help them lead change in their organizations.

About Verint Systems Inc.

Verint® (Nasdaq: VRNT) is a global leader in Actionable Intelligence® solutions with a focus on customer engagement optimization, security intelligence, and fraud, risk and compliance. Today, more than 10,000 organizations in 180 countries—including over 80 percent of the Fortune 100—count on intelligence from Verint solutions to make more informed, effective and timely decisions. Learn more about how we’re creating A Smarter World with Actionable Intelligence® at www.verint.com.

This press release contains “forward-looking statements,” including statements regarding expectations, predictions, views, opportunities, plans, strategies, beliefs, and statements of similar effect relating to Verint Systems Inc. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and they are based on management's expectations that involve a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions, any of which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in or implied by the forward-looking statements. For a detailed discussion of these risk factors, see our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2016, our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended July 31, 2016, and other filings we make with the SEC. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release and, except as required by law, Verint assumes no obligation to update or revise them or to provide reasons why actual results may differ.

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