With analytics, brands can see the world as their customers do ‒ and shape real-time customer interactions accordingly. And according to latest Harvard Business Review Analytics Services Report, Real-Time Analytics: The Key to Unlocking Customer Insights & Driving the Customer Experience, real-time analytics is a critical enabler. The report is
Real-time analytics is, at its most basic, being able to present the right offer at the right time. And it’s the ultimate competitive differentiator in today’s age of highly valued customer experiences. Marketers need to understand why this capability is so important to customers, and how to implement this kind
The concept of real-time customer experiences has been around for a while. However, the ability to deliver real-time customer experiences had been limited until recently. Real-time experiences are progressively and significantly influencing today’s customer journeys. Tomorrow, successful customer journeys will not happen at all without them. What is the meaning
Real-time customer experiences are an elusive yet coveted goal for all organizations. As competition intensifies in every single industry, organizations want to ensure they are providing customers with unforgettable results. Satisfactory is no longer enough. Not if you want your customers to come back. Forrester Principal Analyst Rusty Warner’s research
Editor's note: Tiffany Carpenter, Head of Customer Intelligence, SAS UK & Ireland sizes up the benefits of the two technologies and offers up a solution to businesses wanting the best of both. With constant pressure on profit margins, organisations need to strike a balance between improving cost efficiencies and customer
Your business is in a battle to retain and increase your share of wallet from a happy customer base. Winning takes analytics-driven real-time customer experiences. If you’re unconvinced of the value that using analytics brings to the customer experience, a recent Forbes Insight survey of nearly 360 executives makes a
Stories from the edge of innovation How would you feel if I said it’s possible to generate a significant increase in sales during a six-week period, using advanced analytics? This was achieved by a leading European broadcaster – and there’s no reason why you can’t transform your business success similarly.
Think big, start small, take the analytics-driven approach You want to be a customer-first organisation, but are the benefits worth it? Forrester reports that customer experience leaders enjoy 17 percent CAGR (compound annual growth rate) as opposed to laggards at 3 percent.[1] Organisations of all shapes and sizes are embarking on
For many industries, products and features are no longer the most crucial differentiators in the minds of customers. Take mobile telecommunications, for example. The recent market shift from virtually no unlimited data plans to announcements of unlimited data offerings by every major US wireless carrier in a short span of
If there’s one thing today’s organisations can agree on, it’s that the world has changed. In the words of Tony Mooney, former managing director of insight and decision science at Sky, speaking at the recent SAS Data & Customer Experience Forum, “we are now living in a world that is volatile,
