Customer Intelligence

Ashutosh KumarSeptember 26, 2018 0

Why customer journey design matters (and having analytics at its heart matters, too)

Marketing has changed and continues to change. Some of this is because of technology, but mostly it is the result of evolving customer expectations. Isolated customer interactions, however good, do not create a great customer experience. As isolated events, in fact, they may have a low level of influence on

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence | SAS Events

Stephanie DiRicoSeptember 21, 2018 0

Don't just do digital. Be digital.

If you were to ask Tricia Wang, PhD, about real business growth, she would tell you that it lies outside the boundaries of the known. Not everything valuable is measurable, she would say. And big data is hiding new customers in the market from you. Wang is more than just

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Artificial Intelligence | Customer Intelligence

Malcolm LightbodySeptember 21, 2018 0

Customer journey optimization – The brain

My first post on customer journey optimization set the scene by introducing the concept of marketing as a game to be won. The rules to this game are complex, some are known, and others can be learned. Above all, the game is built on a shifting landscape of customer, competitor

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Artificial Intelligence | Customer Intelligence

Malcolm LightbodySeptember 14, 2018 0

Reinforcement learning brings AI to customer journeys

In my previous post I wrote about the Atari video game, Breakout, and how an AI technique (reinforcement learning, or RL) outperformed a human player. I also drew an analogy between Breakout and customer journey optimization. In Breakout, the environment is what you see on the screen – the blocks,

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Artificial Intelligence | Customer Intelligence

Malcolm LightbodySeptember 10, 2018 0

AI-based customer journey optimization

The customer journey is at the forefront of every discussion about modern marketing. The idea that customers move in premeditated or, at the very least, marketer-meditated paths between well-defined states is alluring (and comforting) to a marketing professional. Of course, even a cursory examination of a web path analytics (Sankey)

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Tiffany CarpenterSeptember 5, 2018 0

Why your marketing attribution approach probably needs an overhaul

Back in the early 1900s, Philadelphia retailer John Wanamaker supposedly said, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.” Wanamaker’s dilemma was that although he knew that traditional advertising of the time – newspapers, billboards, posters and the like – resulted

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Jeanne (Hyunjin) ByunAugust 30, 2018 0

디지털 시대 핵심 전략 ‘실시간 마케팅’ 구현하기

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Korean

Retail

Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Kleber WedemannAugust 16, 2018 0

Los datos, fundamento para generar una comunicación que conecte con sus clientes

Con los años, y debido a la amplia oferta de ciertos productos y servicios, el reto de llegar a nuevos clientes y fidelizar a los actuales ha crecido. Esto ha llevado a las empresas a buscar diferentes tecnologías que les permitan saber más de sus clientes. Dicha adopción, en la

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Spanish

Banking | Communications | Education

Customer Intelligence

Liliana BaoAugust 16, 2018 0

“Llegó un cliente ¡¿Qué le digo?!”

Desde que me mudé a media cuadra de una estación de servicios, descubrí que una tienda 24hs de autoservicio se convirtió en mi kiosko, mi almacén, mi oficina, mi cafetería, mi restaurante, ¡y hasta mi farmacia a veces! Basta con pasar por la puerta, para que la cajera me salude

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Spanish

Customer Intelligence

Wilson RajAugust 10, 2018 0

Who owns real-time customer interactions in the C-suite?

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

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Customer Intelligence

Ana HidalgoAugust 10, 2018 0

Más vale llegar a tiempo que ser invitado

Como soy una persona afortunada, en ocasiones llego de forma no planificada a algún lugar justo en el momento en el que están a punto de descorchar un buen vino, por conversar acerca de algo que me interesa mucho o en el momento exacto en que regalan algo que me

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Spanish

Customer Intelligence

Oliver BörnerAugust 9, 2018 0

Wir wollen wie Amazon sein!

Interessanterweise sprachen mich in den letzten Monaten viele Unternehmen der unterschiedlichsten Branchen an und erzählten mir, dass sie sich eben nicht an den „Leuchtturm“-Beispielen ihrer eigenen Branche messen lassen wollen, sondern am „besten Unternehmen in Bezug auf ein herausragendes Kundenerlebnis“. Kurz: Sie wollen so sein wie Amazon. Es sieht wirklich

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German

Analytics | Customer Intelligence | Internet of Things

Sandra HernandezAugust 2, 2018 0

El CMO, retado a reinventarse frente a consumidores más educados, diversos e influyentes

La evolución tecnológica a la que nos enfrentamos a diario ha generado grandes cambios en los hábitos de consumo. Estas transformaciones han llevado a las organizaciones a atravesar por un momento en el que si no evolucionan no podrán optimizar, por ejemplo, la experiencia al cliente que ofrecen, y de

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Spanish

Banking | Communications

Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Tiffany CarpenterJuly 31, 2018 0

Chasing shadows: Building a better view of the customer

In what Forrester describes as “the age of the customer,” customer experience has become the decisive differentiator between brands. Consumers want fast, easy access to information and personalised experiences unique to them. Knowing your customers’ preferences, habits and behaviours needs to be a top priority for every company. However, a

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Customer Intelligence | Data Visualization | Machine Learning

Suneel GroverJuly 18, 2018 0

SAS Customer Intelligence 360: Factorization machines, visual analytics, and personalized marketing [Part 1]

In a previous posting, SAS Customer Intelligence 360 was highlighted in the context of delivering relevant product, service, and content recommendations using automated machine learning within digital experiences. Shifting gears, SAS recognizes there are different user segments for our platform. This post will focus on building custom analytical recommendation models

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Customer Intelligence

Suneel GroverJuly 13, 2018 0

SAS Customer Intelligence 360: The Digital Shapeshifter of Recommendation Systems [Part 2]

In part one of this blog posting series, we took an introductory tour of recommendation systems, digital marketing, and SAS Customer Intelligence 360. Helping users of your website or mobile properties find items of interest is useful in almost any situation. This is why the concept of personalized marketing is

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence

David PopeJuly 5, 2018 0

Analytics use cases for utilities: Customer analytics

Our company talks to utilities all over the world about the value of analytics and "the digital utility," and we share analytics use cases across: assets and operations; customers; portfolio; and corporate operations (see diagram below). In this third post of my four-part series, I'll highlight a customer analytics use case. Customer

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Energy & Utilities

Advanced Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Tiffany CarpenterJuly 5, 2018 0

Stop gazing in the rear-view mirror to compete on customer experience

While most organisations claim to want to compete on customer experience, our research shows that most organisations are unable to use analytics to predict customer needs. In the Age of Now, where consumers have more choices than ever and their expectations of brands are higher than ever, customer experience and

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence | Internet of Things | Machine Learning

Max ArdigòJune 27, 2018 0

Machine learning to (re)learn about the consumer's genome

An interview with Gaetano Giannetto, CEO of Epipoli/Groupalia Transparency and quality of algorithms will form the basis of a new alliance and a new balance between companies and their customers. “Data intelligence becomes a competitive advantage only if you’re able to use it,” according to Gaetano Giannetto, CEO of Epipoli,

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Retail

Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Dan MitchellJune 25, 2018 0

How are retailers using real-time analytics to improve customer experience?

Retailers don’t need to be reminded about the importance of customer experience. It’s critical – and that’s been true since the dawn of retail. But the nature of that experience has been changing at a rapid clip in recent years, due in large part to well-documented shifts in technology and

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Retail

Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Augusta LonghiJune 22, 2018 0

5 principles to drive better customer experiences

What does it take to get customer experience right? We can probably all agree that it starts with data, and that means good data. Data holds clues about what your customers want, how they feel, how they like to engage with your brand, how often they want to be in

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Customer Intelligence

SAS KoreaJune 22, 2018 0

스포츠 클럽, 분석으로 선수와 경기에 대한 완전한 그림을 그리다

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Korean

Sports & Entertainment

Customer Intelligence

Dariusz JańczukJune 22, 2018 0

How does customer intelligence support modern marketing?

In my last blog post, I discussed the features of a customer intelligence solution that enable it to support more coherent marketing. In this post, I consider how customer intelligence can be used to support marketing, from conscious management and monitoring of strategic goals to planning and managing the experience

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Customer Intelligence

Suneel GroverJune 20, 2018 0

SAS Customer Intelligence 360: Predictive next best actions

Regardless of industry, it has become a frequent occurrence that behind every data-driven marketer is an analytical ninja. Together, they formulate recipes in addressing the customer-centric paradigm that considers the different actions that a brand can take for a specific individual, and decides on the “best” one. The goal of

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Dariusz JańczukJune 15, 2018 0

Defining and exploring customer intelligence

Analysing data collected from customers allows companies to build a better understanding of customer behaviour. This enables businesses to contact customers in a more intelligent way and provide highly personalised, relevant messages. This sounds simple, but how does it work in practice?

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Gloria CaberoJune 13, 2018 0

Hacia una experiencia digital del cliente fundamentada en la analítica

Su empresa lanzará en unas semanas un producto que, a su juicio, es innovador y despertará el interés de la gente. La campaña de awareness arrancó hace ya varios días y los clientes potenciales están visitando su sitio web para conocer más detalles, así como la fecha en que estará

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Customer Intelligence | Machine Learning

Mike TurnerJune 8, 2018 0

What is the future for loyalty programs?

Over the past few months not a day goes by when you don’t see a news story about yet another retailer struggling to come to terms with the changes in the consumer and business marketplace. For some the result has been their ultimate demise – Toys R Us, for example.

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Retail

Analytics | Customer Intelligence | Work & Life at SAS

Patrick XhonneuxJune 5, 2018 0

Is transformation mostly realized with new skills?

Digital transformation is the buzzword that simply will not go away. But are we taking its name in vain? It is easy to jump on a bandwagon and start to use terms like transformation without really thinking about whether we are doing so correctly, or whether another word, like “iteration”

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Advanced Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Steven HofmansJune 1, 2018 0

Is your marketing programme ready for attribution modelling?

Marketing attribution is a way of understanding the impact of different channels and touch points on customer decisions and spending. It allows businesses to allocate responsibility for sales (and therefore income) to particular channels or campaigns, and see which are most effective in driving sales and profits, and which give

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence

David WallaceMay 31, 2018 0

How are banks using real-time customer analytics to improve the customer experience? 

We asked banking leaders. Here’s a sneak peek of our findings in advance of our June 12 webinar How important is customer experience in banking today? Very. It's the number one business challenge banks face, surpassing even regulatory compliance, because it links directly to revenue. And the stakes are only

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Banking