Jennifer Childress
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Press Release
Brazil's Embratel Selects Jacada to Improve Fraud Analysis Process
Efficiency Expected to Improve up to 800%
Atlanta and São Paulo, Brazil, March 9, 2004 – Jacada Ltd. (NASDAQ: JCDA), a leading provider of software that accelerates business process improvement, announced today that Embratel, the largest telecom company in Latin America, has selected Jacada to help reduce the length of its fraud analysis process. The process, which presently takes between 30 to 45 minutes, will be reduced to about five minutes using Jacada to integrate mainframe and HTML applications.
The rapid growth in telecommunications worldwide has spurred an increase in fraud. Industry estimates range from $12 to $60 billion lost annually; with nearly two-thirds of all telecom companies suffering loses due to organized fraudulent activities.
"Detecting fraud requires quick analysis of large volumes of data from many disparate systems," said Carlos Falconi, Vice President of Latin America, for Jacada. "Slowing the growth of fraud requires adaptable, integrated information systems."
The first phase of the project will use Jacada Integrator to automate the navigation process through various mainframe and Web-based screens and applications, reducing the number of keystrokes required to work through the fraud analysis process, improving efficiency up to 800%.
In the second phase of the project, Jacada will integrate these applications to other Embratel systems, including its Siebel CRM system. Jacada is a certified Siebel partner with over 40 joint customers. By incorporating legacy data within existing business processes and applications, Embratel will cost-effectively leverage business-critical data that is often difficult to access.
After a public bid for proposals, Embratel ultimately selected Jacada over several solutions because of Jacada's ability to integrate multiple types of computing systems including mainframe, Web, CRM, and Windows.
Efficiency in tracking fraud is especially critical in Brazil's telecommunications industry, which is implementing sweeping deregulation and privatization. Embratel operates the majority of the corporate telecommunications market and is the leading player in promoting competition.
The development and implementation of the project is being conducted by a team formed by Embratel, 3CON – Consultoria e Sistemas (Jacada's authorized partner) and Jacada professionals.
About Embratel
Embratel is the premium telecommunications provider in Brazil, offering many different services such as local and long distance calls, advanced voice service, high-speed data communication, internet access, data communication using satellites and corporate network. The company is a leader in data communication and internet access in Brazil, with a top position to operate end-to-end networks in Latin America. Embratel fiber optic network has 29 thousand kilometres of optic cables, representing around 1 million and sixty nine thousand kilometres of optic fiber.
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