Jonathan Moran is responsible for global marketing activities for SAS’ marketing solutions. He has more than 20 years of marketing technology and customer analytics industry experience. Jonathan has designed, developed and implemented analytical software solutions that helped Fortune 500 customers solve unique analytics business issues.
Providing a great digital customer experience is more and more important, and yet many brands seem not to care by providing less than stellar experiences over and over again. It's like déjà vu, a French term that means “already seen,” which is used to describe the sensation that you have already experienced something that
We’ve heard a lot lately about digital transformation, the idea that businesses are evolving how they operate – moving from traditional channels towards all things digital through the use of mobile apps, in-store digital offers, and more digital communication in general. My own experience confirms this. I love mobile banking,
A strong campaign management platform is just one of the ingredients needed to allow brands to provide contextual customer experiences across a plethora of channels. And for the ninth consecutive year, Gartner has named SAS a “Leader” in its Magic Quadrant for Multichannel Campaign Management based on completeness of vision and
Gartner just recently released two Magic Quadrant vendor assessment reports that have important implications for marketers: The first is the Advanced Analytics Platform Magic Quadrant where SAS is nicely positioned in the leader’s quadrant among 16 vendors due to both completeness of vision and ability to execute. The second is
Gartner just recently released its Magic Quadrant for Marketing Resource Management (MRM) report –where SAS was named a leader. SAS attains this "Leader" distinction by quantitatively outpacing 15 out of 16 other vendors on both our completeness of vision and ability to execute. The graph to the right shows SAS' continued movement toward the
Recently, I was reading a conclusions paper created from an American Marketing Association webinar about mobile marketing featuring Brian Vellmure of Innovantage and John Balla of SAS. As I was reading, one line stuck out to me on the first page of the paper: “The key to making sense of mobile
Forrester Research, Inc. recently published its latest biennial "Cross-Channel Campaign Management (CCCM) Wave" evaluation. For the third CCCM Wave evaluation in a row, SAS is cited as a "Leader" by the leading technology analyst firm. This evaluation is the most comprehensive study of its kind in the Customer Intelligence space,
Modernizing your software infrastructure is vital to remaining an efficient and competitive organization. Operating on legacy environments often leads to a disproportionate amount of time, resources, and money being spent attempting to maintain and/or operate these older environments. Recently, we got the chance to hear from one of our customers
You may notice that marketing is changing. Fewer credit card offers are hitting your mailbox. Fewer coupons for irrelevant products and services. There is a reason for the change. Organizations are beginning to understand that mass marketing alienates customers. Spray and pray doesn't work - so organizations aren't spending their
As the best of the best golfers converge in Pinehurst, NC at the US Open Golf Tournament, it seems only natural to relate golfing to marketing optimization. I assure you this is not a stretch - please read on. You see, everything in life is an optimization problem that must be
