Jennifer Childress
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Press Release
Jacada Announces that Cox Communications has Selected Jacada WorkSpace
Company signs enterprise agreement to deploy agent productivity solution across contact centers
ATLANTA, September 19, 2005 – Jacada Ltd. (Nasdaq: JCDA), a leader in contact center productivity solutions, today announced that it has entered into an enterprise license agreement with Cox Communications, the third largest communications company in the United States. The agreement includes an enterprise license for Jacada WorkSpace, a new contact center desktop solution from Jacada.
A full-service broadband telecommunications and video service provider, Cox Communications was among the first cable operators to enter the telephony market and begin offering consumers a bundle of video, Internet and telephony services on one bill. With an intense focus on excellence in customer service and enhancing employee satisfaction, Cox Communications' selection of Jacada WorkSpace is a key part of an enterprise initiative designed to maximize the customer service representative's (CSR) work experience by providing a simplified desktop.
Jacada WorkSpace boosts agent satisfaction and productivity by simplifying the desktop environment and providing advanced tools that automate cumbersome processes. By improving agent satisfaction and performance, Jacada WorkSpace subsequently improves customer experience and customer retention. Jacada WorkSpace is powered by the Jacada Fusion non-invasive integration platform that works with existing business applications to automate processes and improve workflows, without requiring any change to existing applications.
"Our key goals for this project focus on satisfaction levels among our CSRs," said Keith Lindsay, Director, Customer Care Application Development, at Cox Communications. "By delivering an intuitive, customizable desktop environment, our CSRs will have the resources they need to deliver superior customer service to our customers."
Jacada WorkSpace provides advanced tools that simplify tasks for the 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 'in-call intelligence' helps automate tasks such as call disposition and call wrap-up.
"Ultimately, Jacada WorkSpace will assist us in streamlining many of our contact center processes," states Lindsay. The open, standards-based architecture, together with the fact that the Jacada Fusion platform can work with any of Cox's existing applications, non-invasively were key to the selection of the Jacada Fusion platform.
"Companies like Cox Communications recognize the critical link between agent satisfaction, and the satisfaction level of their customers," said David Holmes, Jacada executive vice president. "We are excited that Jacada WorkSpace is being received so favorably by some of the leading customer service organizations in the industry."
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