Resources and Downloads
The Jacada Resource Center includes free whitepapers, industry research and webcasts from Jacada as well as industry sources such as Frost & Sullivan, Butler Group, Call Center Magazine and many others.
Customer Interactions Podcast Series
Customer Interactions with Jacada is a podcast series that focuses on solutions to improve the customer experience. View these podcasts to get an insider's view of best practices in the call center, customer service metrics and current agent and customer satisfaction statistics. In addition, there are other hot topics to learn about, such as the latest in social media advancements and the evolution in cloud computing.
Customer Service 2.0: Access the Experts Analyst Series
Jacada is pleased to provide a series of educational blogs, webinars and whitepapers featuring expert analysts in the field of call center operations, CRM, customer experience and social media. "Customer Service 2.0: Access the Experts" provides an amazing opportunity to learn and understand exclusive insights from popular and well-known industry thought-leaders.
A simplified desktop helps this company's contact center evolve into a streamlined automated call center, resulting in a dramatically improved customer experience. 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. Also available with German subtitles. In a customer-centric industry such as telecommunications, efficiently delivering a quality customer experience while increasing employee effectiveness is crucial to the bottom line. The customer’s experience and the results a company achieves on a given call are almost totally dependent on the agent’s ability to access and communicate information from various sources to the customer quickly and effectively. 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. Learn how contact centers are empowering agents with information through customer relationship management (CRM) solutions in order to improve the customer experience. 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. In this report sponsored by Jacada, as part of our "Customer Service 2.0: Access the Experts" series, Penny Reynolds shares how efforts devoted to creating outstanding customer interactions have tremendous payback and provides us with a list of effective strategies. This joint white paper from Jacada and ContactBabel (a UK-based analyst firm for the contact centre industry) discusses efficiency and effectiveness within a customer service call. 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. Customer service facilities are failing consistently to meet Dutch consumers' expectations, according to new consumer research, impacting companies' bottom lines. Also available in Dutch. 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. In this report sponsored by Jacada, as part of our "Customer Service 2.0: Access the Experts" series, Bruce Temkin explains how contact centers can learn to collaborate and improvise by mastering the four core customer experience competencies: purposeful leadership, employee engagement, compelling brand values and customer connectedness. In this report sponsored by Jacada, as part of our "Customer Service 2.0: Access the Experts" series, Esteban Kolsky shows us how an organization can remove the hype from the claims about Social CRM, focus on what matters, and deploy a valuable initiative that benefits everyone. Modern utilities are exceeding customer expectations with a unified desktop and an optimized key call process in call centers, while utilizing the legacy CIS. 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. Review the results of the latest CRM survey and learn why unified desktop solutions are enabling shorter but more effective customer interactions. 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. Jacada, the founder of the Unified Agent Desktop, once again revolutionizes the space with the release of Jacada WorkSpace Agent Desktop 6.0, the first Agent Desktop built to empower the business and lighten the workload of IT. Join Keith Dawson, senior analyst and contact center expert with Frost & Sullivan, and David Holmes, executive vice president of global marketing (1995-2009) with Jacada, to learn how both agent and customer satisfaction start at the agent desktop. 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. 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. Penny Reynolds of The Call Center School explains the complexities of First Call Resolution (FCR) and how FCR impacts customer satisfaction. The founding partner of The Call Center School, Penny Reynolds, discusses the five key components in establishing and equipping your workforce to make the most of each and every customer interaction, enabling your frontline staff to move the interaction from adequate to extraordinary. This rebroadcast featuring Brent Leary - Co-founder and Partner of CRM Essentials - will help you understand how to manage a social strategy alongside traditional customer engagement processes, how to get started and what challenges you'll face. Listen as Brent Leary, Co-founder and Partner of CRM Essentials LLC, helps you understand how some of the most immediate benefits from social media today come from leveraging social channels to more effectively communicate with current customers. Consistent customer service with key metrics (call handle time and resolution) CAN be achieved with a legacy CIS. Listen as Esteban Kolsky, Founder of ThinkJar, helps you understand why your company should adopt a Social CRM strategy and what the key elements of this strategy should be, including examples of companies succeeding in Social CRM and social channels. 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. Bruce Temkin, from the Temkin Group, discusses how to transform customer experiences into meaningful exchanges and deliver value through contact centers. In this webinar Bright, a leading independent customer management consultancy, shares their latest findings on the subject of customer satisfaction. They also take it one step further and discuss if CSAT matters at all. 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. 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. 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. Explore cost effective ideas for automating and simplifying work processes as well as tackle the chore of developing a bundled execution strategy. Winn Technology Group Research provides the results of a national call center survey as well as industry metrics on agent performance. This industry report identifies strategies for improving customer retention, tactics for simplifying the employee experience and a case study of Vodafone UK. 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. Successfully move to a "universal agent" model by learning how to reduce desktop complexity FIRST. 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. This paper highlights 5 major ways social media is changing the game for customer service. 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. A Unified Desktop has a significant impact on the service quality. While the cost and effort of an optimization initiative can be estimated relatively easy in most cases, the quantification of the result in subject to the customers' waiting time is difficult. This article describes how an Unified Desktop with an improvement of 20% result in a decrease of customer waiting time by 75%. Today's contact centers must provide the best possible customer service at the lowest possible cost per customer contact. This document describes how call center managers can increase the service level from 80% to 98% with a minimum of effort and risk. Learn the top six reasons why simplifying the desktop should be your number one priority to positively impacting every agent and every call. 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. 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. 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.
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Telecommunications Contact Centers Case Study: Jacada Solutions Improve Quality, Efficiency, and Deliver Cost Savings to Telecommunications Contact Centers
Butler Group – New Technology Audit: A Special Report About Jacada Fusion and Jacada WorkSpace
Call Center International Analysis – CRM Integration in Unified Agent-Desktops
Call Center International Analysis – Wake-Up Call for Desktop Efficiency
Call Center School – From Transactions to Interactions: 25 Workforce Strategies to Support Extraordinary Customer Experiences
ContactBabel – The UK Contact Centre Decision-Makers' Guide
Datamonitor Analysis – CRM in the Contact Center and the Emergence of the Unified Agent Desktop
Tangram Research Results – Help, the customer is drowning!
Technomar Survey Results – Absence of service drives German customers away from companies
Temkin Group – The Customer Experience Evolution Of Contact Centers
thinkJar – Debunking Social CRM
UtiliPoint Analysis – Leveraging the True Value of Legacy Customer Information Systems
Wakefield Research – Consumers Are Less Willing to Endure Poor Service, Even in a Down Economy
Yankee Group – Improving Customer Service Effectiveness Demands a Unified Agent Desktop
YouGov Survey Results – Customer Service Still Struggles to Satisfy
Webcast – Contact Center Agility: Moving at the Speed of Business
Webcast – Agents of Change - The Power of the Unified Desktop
Webcast – Billions of Us Are in the Cloud
Webcast – Call Center Strategies for Increasing Profitability: Cost Center to Profit Center
Webcast – First Call Resolution and Solve Rate Analytics That Produce Measurable Results
Webcast – From Transactions to Interactions: Five Essential Workforce Components to Make the Most of Each Call
Webcast – Getting Social, Traditionally Speaking
Webcast – How Social Media, Location-Based Services and Mobile Technology are Changing The Rules of Customer Engagement
Webcast – Improving CSR Efficiency in the Utilities Contact Center
Webcast – Social CRM: The Final Frontier...of Hype
Webcast – The Intersection of Social Media and Customer Experience: Esteban Kolsky and Brent Leary Share Their Insights
Webcast – Turning Contact Centers Into Customer Experience Leaders
Webcast – What really drives customer satisfaction? And why should we care?
Webcast – Yankee Group Reveals Top Five Ways to Increase CSR Effectiveness
Jacada Fusion Technical White Paper
Jacada WorkSpace White Paper
White Paper – Barriers to Executing Bundled Sales in the Contact Center: A Communications Industry Report
White Paper – Call Center Survey Results Identify Agent Desktop as Productivity Drain
White Paper – Customer Retention Strategies in Action: A Communications Industry Report
White Paper – Customer Service 2.0
White Paper – First Things First: Unify the Service Desktop Before Implementing a Universal Agent Program
White Paper – Improving Customer Retention in the Insurance Contact Center
White Paper – Five Ways Social Media is Impacting Customer Service
White Paper – Social Customer Insights: Building Customer-centric Organizations
White Paper – The Effect of Unified Desktop on the Waiting Time of Customers
White Paper – The Impact of Business Process Optimization in Contact Centers on the Service Level and Staffing
White Paper – The Top Six Reasons to Simplify the Customer Service Desktop
White Paper – The Top Three Strategies for Improving First Call Resolution
White Paper – Unlocking the Hidden Sales Potential of your Customer Service Representatives
White Paper – Why Average Handle Time No Longer Matters





