Jacada Ltd. (Nasdaq: JCDA), a leading software provider of contact centre productivity solutions, today announced the general availability of Jacada® Fusion Agent Portal, an innovative desktop solution that optimises workflow processes across business systems within a contact centre, providing a single point of access to systems and resources to improve agent satisfaction and the customer experience.
Jacada also announced today that Cox
Communications, the third largest communications company in the
Jacada Fusion Agent Portal is an agent
productivity solution that utilises patented technology to deliver significant
efficiencies within a contact centre. Jacada Fusion Agent Portal is:
Jacada Fusion Agent Portal provides advanced tools that simplify tasks for the customer service representative (CSR), reduce new hire training time, reduce keystroke errors, automate workflows and automate redundant processes. A dynamic scripting environment provides guided navigation for agents, and innovative ‘in-call intelligence' technology helps automate tasks such as call disposition and wrap-up.
Jacada Fusion Agent Portal is the latest innovation in a set of solutions Jacada is bringing to the contact centre market to help companies maximise productivity where CSRs are either burdened with multiple desktop applications or where complex business rules - whether regulatory or process-oriented - hamper CSR productivity. These disparate, complex environments cause CSR inefficiencies, resulting in higher costs through increased training time, increased average handling times, and ultimately, in decreased CSR and customer satisfaction.
According to analysts, the contact centre productivity optimisation market is one of the fastest-growing spaces for solutions providers today. With more than 100,000 contact centres worldwide, there is a critical need for solutions like Jacada Fusion Agent Portal that positively impact CSR productivity across all industries.
"Companies like West Corporation and Cox Communications are breaking the mould and strategically focusing on the future of the agent desktop as a means to improve agent satisfaction, which has a dramatic effect on the customer experience these companies provide," commented Art Schoeller, senior analyst for Yankee Group. "Enabling efficiencies and creating intuitive workspaces for CSRs can boost staff morale and eliminate training costs associated with learning to navigate systems that are entirely too complex for completing customer requests."
About Jacada Fusion Agent Portal
Jacada Fusion Agent Portal is a Web-based,
thin-client workspace which incorporates all critical functions required by the
contact centre agent to service customer calls. Features include:
Jacada Fusion Agent Portal is also a
process optimisation platform that simplifies the agent's interaction with the
business applications they must use. Jacada Fusion Agent Portal is powered by
the Jacada Fusion non-invasive integration platform that works with any
existing business application to automate processes and improve workflows,
without requiring any change to existing applications. For contact centres,
Jacada Fusion can deliver:
"The architecture behind Jacada Fusion Agent Portal will be very appealing to large enterprises, and contact centres looking for flexible deployment options for outsourcing, off-shoring and work-at-home agents," says Sheryl Kingstone, senior analyst for the Yankee Group. "The thin-client, browser-based desktop makes client deployment easy and minimises desktop requirements, while the J2EE-based, open-standards approach is very compatible with the majority of the application platforms used in large organisations such as those in the telecommunications and financial services sectors."
Jacada has a long history of providing
companies with proven, quick-to-market solutions while eliminating the
traditional long and expensive systems replacement projects. "For
companies that are committed to delivering superior customer service, Jacada
Fusion Agent Portal has the potential to reinvent their service strategies,"
said Giddy Hollander, Jacada CEO. "The result is a more effective,
satisfied employee, as well as a more satisfied customer - two very powerful
components that help drive business, regardless of the industry."
About Jacada
Jacada solutions help customers rapidly
simplify and improve high-value business processes while eliminating the
traditional long and expensive systems replacement projects. Jacada Fusion is
an award-winning agent productivity solution containing patented technology
that enables organisations to reduce customer churn as well as increase
revenues by providing more time for customer care and revenue-generating
activities. Jacada Fusion Agent Portal delivers a simplified interaction to
dramatically improve the efficiency of the agent and the experience of the
customer.
By significantly reducing call handle times and training costs, Jacada Fusion solutions deliver hard ROI, with payback achieved in months. Jacada solutions are deployed in hundreds of contact centres worldwide and to millions of users through self-service applications designed to off load contact centre activity.
Jacada has over 1200 customers worldwide
including many Fortune 1000 corporations and government organisations. Founded
in 1990, Jacada operates globally with offices in
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