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3 Key NICE Inform Tools You Need to Know

January 17th, 2023

Written by John McDonnell, Public Safety Sales Director

Blog, Public Safety

NICE Inform is an industry-leading public safety platform that allows for the end user to understand what happened during an incident, how it happened, and what is performing or not performing in their organization. It involves recording, evidence management, reporting, quality assurance, incident reconstruction, and more through its available toolkit.  After over 30 years of selling and supporting NICE Inform for public safety professionals, we believe there are three key tools that deserve highlighting and are sure to improve the performance of your PSAP. We’ll review these tools a little differently by highlighting several of their features and how those features can directly impact and benefit your PSAP’s performance.  

Tool #1: Evaluator

NICE Inform’s Evaluator tool creates an effective Quality Assurance program for your organization that helps identify knowledge gaps and compliance weaknesses to be proactively addressed through coaching and training. 

Features: 

Automated, rule-based call selection

Customizable forms, including APCO NENA ANSI-approved boilerplates

Tailored evaluation questions to different job responsibilities, seniority, types of incidents, etc.

Reconstruction with multiple channels, including call, video, radio, text, etc.

Single call or entire incident evaluation

Benefits: 

Cut evaluation time in half, while increasing objectivity and consistency 

Improves your QA program, which in turn produces better training and coaching opportunities  

Better training leads to more efficient and knowledgeable employees, which contributes to improved employee retention and less turnover 

Seamless integration with NICE Inform application suite, so no need to learn a new interface 

Impact: 

More effective QA/QI program designed to proactively identify what’s working and what’s not  

Tool #2: Organizer 

NICE Inform’s Organizer tool simplifies incident reconstruction with secure sharing of multimedia content for investigations while protecting the chain of custody. 

Features: 

Visualize all records, regardless of source or media, into one synchronized timeline 

Customize database fields for more precise organization 

Integrates with your CAD data  

Keep all records in one place, no matter what channel they come from (calls, text, screen files, GIS, notes, documents, videos, etc.) 

Export encrypted, password-protected incident folders, but still have the option to burn onto CDs or DVDs 

Create incident folders based on your organization’s most important reference information (like CAD, case number, etc.)  

Collaborate with other agencies by importing their incident information securely into your folders 

Benefits: 

Faster and easier access into all your incident information and records 

Enhanced data organization with the fields that matter most to you

Increase incident understanding and see the full picture with all records in one timeline 

Full control over and more efficient distribution of incident folders 

Faster and more accurate analysis of cross-jurisdictional incidents 

Annotate and organize information in incident folders without impacting the integrity of the original recordings 

Impact: 

More precise, efficient, and secure incident reconstruction to minimize time spent with manual reconstruction 

Tool #3: Reporter 

NICE Inform’s Reporter tool combines data from CAD, telephony, radio, and the Evaluator tool to provide near real-time snapshots of performance across multiple dimensions to provide actionable insights.

Features: 

Consolidates recordings and data from multiple channels, including CAD, telephony, radio, text messages, etc. 

Access performance views of metrics like call volume 

Identify and listen to recordings associated with the metrics 

Benefits: 

Drill down what is causing gaps in performance 

Get a holistic view of your organization’s performance 

Automatically gain actionable insights out of the data instead of manually assembling reports 

Impact: 

Be able to take a step back from the day-to-day events and identify ways you can improve your organization’s operations to better serve the public 

Wilmac’s public safety team discuss NICE Inform and providing best practices on using the solution and its tools in NICE Inform Best Practices: Live Q&A with Wilmac. Watch the session on-demand here

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