NICE develops the industry-leading EnginFrame grid portal, delivering user-friendly, highly customizable access to grid-enabled applications and infrastructures.Leveraging distributed computing experience and a longstanding partnership with Platform Computing (active since 1996), NICE products complete the Grid solution by increasing its usability and user-friendliness, without sacrificing flexibility and control for the most advanced computing scenarios. NICE has engineered key usability features in the Grid Portal, to facilitate Grid usage and acceptance in different markets (including Industrial Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Oil&Gas, Electronics, Telco, Research, etc.). Pre-packages application integrations are available for leading computing codes and ISVs. The EnginFrame Grid portal allows organizations to provide application-oriented computing and data services to end users (via Web browser, WebServices clients or Portlet containers), hiding all the complexity of the underlying grid infrastructure. In the Research/Educational market, the EnginFrame product is widely used as foundation technology for GENIUS, the co-developed portal of the EGEE EU project. Besides Platform computing middleware, EnginFrame integrates with Enterprise Portals, distributed file systems, GUI virtualization tools and a broad range of authentication systems.NICE products can be also acquired via Platform Computing.
NICE understands the demand of information technologies and establishes enduring relationship with customers by jointly solving problems related to computing resource optimization and rationalization. With the knowledge, skills and strategic partnerships, NICE meets the demands of innovation and offers the most advanced solutions. NICE Computing Portal solutions enhance engineering productivity and customer service and shorten the projects time-to-market, while reducing IT maintenance costs. NICE offers industry leader software products aimed at company-wide management and optimization of computing resources. NICE qualified personnel can provide consulting services related to Inter-Intranet technologies, heterogeneous systems integration, Java development, technical computing, performance analysis, parallel and distributed computing.