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The Jacada Resource Center is a virtual library containing valuable contact center industry materials and information. Click any link below to access the analyst research report, webcast or white paper of your choice.
This paper explains how Jacada WorkSpace improves contact center productivity and reduces handle time by simplifying and automating time-consuming contact center processes using a single universal desktop solution.
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Call Center Efficiency and Metrics
Jacada WorkSpace White Paper
This paper explains how Jacada WorkSpace improves contact center productivity and reduces handle time by simplifying and automating time-consuming contact center processes using a single universal desktop solution.
Webcast – Call Center Strategies for Increasing Profitability: Cost Center to Profit Center
The founding director of The Call Center School, Penny Reynolds, demonstrates the whiplash of certain cost-cutting steps on an organization's profitability and offers practical suggestions for mining hidden call center revenues.
Webcast – First Call Resolution and Solve Rate Analytics That Produce Measurable Results
Penny Reynolds of The Call Center School explains the complexities of First Call Resolution (FCR) and how FCR impacts customer satisfaction.
Webcast – Improving CSR Efficiency in the Utilities Contact Center
Consistent customer service with key metrics (call handle time and resolution) CAN be achieved with a legacy CIS.
White Paper – Call Center Survey Results Identify Agent Desktop as Productivity Drain
Winn Technology Group Research provides the results of a national call center survey as well as industry metrics on agent performance.
White Paper – Jacada Insight: Inside FCR and Positive Growth
Discover the unique challenges of understanding customer experience in a call center and how to more effectively measure the CSR performance that drives it.
White Paper – The Top Three Strategies for Improving First Call Resolution
See the top strategies for properly aligning a contact center's culture, process and technology to vastly improve the most critical metric: First Call Resolution (FCR). Also available in German.
White Paper – Unlocking the Hidden Sales Potential of your Customer Service Representatives
With the right tools, customer-facing organisations can now benefit from the untapped sales potential of their Customer Service Representatives, leading to higher revenues, greater staff productivity, and increased customer loyalty.
White Paper – Why Average Handle Time No Longer Matters
The Jacada research team investigates an innovative measurement: Average Interaction Time (AIT) and why contact centers should reconsider the true significance of average call time reduction.
Cloud Computing
Webcast – Billions of Us Are in the Cloud
Cloud computing has great potential to renovate the end experience for the customer. Listen to this rebroadcast for a straightforward discussion of cloud computing strengths and challenges.
Complexity in the Call Center
Forrester Research – Hot Insurance Tech Companies To Watch In 2009
As Insurance IT teams accommodate new customer segments and business models, and manage daunting regulatory changes, Forrester reviews new solutions and vendors emerging to address the evolving needs of business leaders.
Jacada Fusion Technical White Paper
This paper describes Jacada Fusion from a technical perspective, including its ability to enable process changes and improvements quickly by surfacing key business functions as Web services and by orchestrating these services in the assembly of new composite applications.
White Paper – Barriers to Executing Bundled Sales in the Contact Center: A Communications Industry Report
Explore cost effective ideas for automating and simplifying work processes as well as tackle the chore of developing a bundled execution strategy.
Customer Case Studies
Video – Case Study
A simplified desktop helps this company's contact center evolve into a streamlined automated call center, resulting in a dramatically improved customer experience.
Video – Telefónica O2 UK
One of UK's largest telecommunications providers partners with Jacada to focus on the topic of certainty and reaps multiple rewards from reduced operational costs and supreme customer satisfaction.
Customer Experience
Webcast – The Customer Experience Imperative for Call Centers
Forrester Research shares three key principles that support a positive customer experience and Jacada highlights transformed customer service operations in leading companies.
Webcast – Yankee Group Reveals Top Five Ways to Increase CSR Effectiveness
Sheryl Kingstone from Yankee Group's Customer-Centric Strategies team reviews current trends in improving the customer experience and the top five ways you can improve CSR effectiveness.
White Paper – Improving Customer Retention in the Insurance Contact Center
Discover how insurers improve the customer experience across all channels by eliminating desktop complexity in the contact center and amplifying customer retention, loyalty and growth.
Customer Retention
White Paper – Customer Retention Strategies in Action: A Communications Industry Report
This industry report identifies strategies for improving customer retention, tactics for simplifying the employee experience and a case study of Vodafone UK.
Customer Service
Butler Group – New Technology Audit: A Special Report About Jacada Fusion and Jacada WorkSpace
This technology report centers on the dramatic operational efficiencies – most importantly, employee productivity and customer satisfaction – that result from open architectures and next generation desktop advancements found in Jacada WorkSpace and Jacada Fusion customer service solutions.
Tangram Research Results – Help, the customer is drowning!
Customer service facilities are failing consistently to meet Dutch consumers' expectations, according to new consumer research, impacting companies' bottom lines. Also available in Dutch.
Technomar Survey Results – Absence of service drives German customers away from companies
A study of more than 1,000 German consumers shows a high level of dissatisfaction with the level of customer service currently received, which is leading to more and more consumers voting with their wallet. Also available in German.
Wakefield Research – Consumers Are Less Willing to Endure Poor Service, Even in a Down Economy
A national phone survey of American consumers shows that the down economy has highlighted weaknesses in customer service and that serious concerns are on the rise while overall satisfaction has plunged.
Webcast – Ensuring a Positive Customer Experience
Forrester Research and Jacada define the relationship between customer service and customer loyalty, and present proof that a superior customer experience can ultimately differentiate insurance providers from competitors.
YouGov Survey Results – Customer Service Still Struggles to Satisfy
Customer service in the UK struggles to satisfy customers through existing online and phone based programs, leaving consumers with poor expectations for future products or services.
Social Media

Webcast – The Intersection of Social Media and Customer Experience: Esteban Kolsky and Brent Leary Share Their Insights
This panel discussion features Estaban Kolsky and Brent Leary, two social media thought leaders discussing the impact that social media is having on customer experience.
White Paper – Customer Service 2.0
Providing poor customer service has always been a dangerous proposition for any business, but the rising popularity of social media web sites has given today's customers a much more powerful punch.
White Paper – Five Ways Social Media is Impacting Customer Service
This paper highlights five major ways social media is changing the game for customer service.
White Paper – Social Customer Insights: Building Customer-centric Organizations
Read this white paper to understand how to leverage the social web to improve customer experience and customer advocacy by harnessing the insights gathered about the social customer.
Unified Agent Desktop
Call Center International Analysis – CRM Integration in Unified Agent-Desktops
Learn how contact centers are empowering agents with information through customer relationship management (CRM) solutions in order to improve the customer experience.
Call Center International Analysis – Wake-Up Call for Desktop Efficiency
200 multi-national corporate call centers weigh-in on the demanding goals of efficiency targets, customer satisfaction and profits – not all goals are achieved with ease.
Datamonitor Analysis – CRM in the Contact Center and the Emergence of the Unified Agent Desktop
Unified desktop solutions integrate multiple systems and applications (including CRM systems) and provide a single point of access to support customer retention, improve service levels and foster market opportunities.
UtiliPoint Analysis – Leveraging the True Value of Legacy Customer Information Systems
Modern utilities are exceeding customer expectations with a unified desktop and an optimized key call process in call centers, while utilizing the legacy CIS.
Ventana Research – Enhancing the Customer Experience: A Smart Desktop Enables Agents to Focus on the Customer
See how a unified service desktop is the best approach to eliminate desktop complexity and increase both agent effectiveness and customer satisfaction.
Webcast – Agents of Change - The Power of the Unified Desktop
Join Keith Dawson, senior analyst and contact center expert with Frost & Sullivan, and David Holmes, executive vice president of global marketing with Jacada, to learn how both agent and customer satisfaction start at the agent desktop.
Webcast – Raising the Stakes for Customer Service
Address key customer service issues with a new breed of unified customer service desktop solutions designed to improve agent productivity and the entire customer experience.
Webcast – Saving Your Way to Customer Satisfaction in the Insurance Call Center
Forrester analyst, Chad Mitchell, discusses best practices in call center unified desktop solutions that help CSRs focus on customer's problems, improve retention and lower costs.
White Paper – First Things First: Unify the Service Desktop Before Implementing a Universal Agent Program
Successfully move to a "universal agent" model by learning how to reduce desktop complexity FIRST.
White Paper – The Top Six Reasons to Simplify the Customer Service Desktop
Learn the top six reasons why simplifying the desktop should be your number one priority to positively impacting every agent and every call.
Yankee Group – Improving Customer Service Effectiveness Demands a Unified Agent Desktop
Review the results of the latest CRM survey and learn why unified desktop solutions are enabling shorter but more effective customer interactions.

