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IBM Software Technical White Paper Digital Media Big data and analytics for a holistic customer journey Foreword Contents What your customers primarily concern themselves with, and rightfully so, is their own never-ending journey through life. All they really want is 1 Foreword to bring more satisfaction, fulfillment, and fun into their own existence. 2 Overcoming big data challenges for insight In the modern business world, customer experience is everything. and opportunity Digital marketing focuses on ensuring a seamless, holistic, multichannel experience to all customers all the time. This is the pivotal concept of a 3 How to acquire, grow and “holistic customer journey.” Big data and agile analytics are key tools retain customers to help your company personalize and target the delivery of superior experiences to all customers. 5 IBM big data platform and IBM PureData System for Analytics The business stakes could not be higher. In an experience-driven economy, your customers will quickly leave you if you don’t offer an 7 Engaging clients through experience that’s tailored to their ever-changing life circumstances. value and insight To re-align your customer-engagement initiatives around this new reality, you will need a clear roadmap for where to start and how to proceed. 10 Roadmap to holistic customer engagement through big-data analytics This strategic whitepaper provides that roadmap. It offers an in-depth discussion on how you can use big data analytics to enhance experience 11 Conclusion while boosting the bottom line. It includes informative case studies on
IBM Software Technical White Paper Digital Media how other companies have used big data analytics to delight their customers. And it helps you understand which IBM big- data solutions might support your own company’s initiatives Security/intelligence extension in digital marketing, multichannel engagement, and customer Process and analyze new types (social media, emails, mobile, 3rd party) and sources of under-leveraged data to significantly experience optimization. improve intelligence, security and privacy. It’s a highly readable compendium with solid advice. It’s well worth your time. Enhanced 360º view of the customer Extend existing customer views by incorporating additional internal and external information sources. James Kobielus IBM Big Data Evangelist Operations analysis Analyze a variety of machine and operational data for improved Overcoming big data challenges for business results and gain visibility into operations, customer experience, transactions and behavior. insight and opportunity Consumer attention is shifting from traditional channels such Big data exploration as TV, radio and print media to digital media channels and Find, visualize and understand volumes of information to devices. A study by Forrester Research found 50 percent of improve decision making. US consumers’ time was spent online, with thousands of new digital devices competing for consumer attention. Marketers Data warehouse augmentation have to maneuver their way through transactions and click- Integrate big data and data warehouse capabilities to increase operational efficiency and optimize your data warehouse to streams; call-center interactions, e-mail and retail store visits; enable new types of analysis. product and service feedback and social media channels. The potential to leverage big data is unlimited. Each industry has its own unique challenges that can benefit from using big Figure 1. Big data use cases data for new insights and improved decision-making. The fol- lowing five cross-industry use cases provide excellent starting points for anyone looking to begin their big data journey: According to an Aberdeen Group paper, “Big Data for Marketing: Targeting Success,” the number of firms planning to increase their use of data analytics for marketing is 98 percent. 2
IBM Software Technical White Paper Digital Media This “big data”—the enormous volume, variety and velocity This paper will discuss how marketers and advertisers can of data being produced—holds tremendous potential for manage the constant flow of big data and gain the necessary marketing professionals to gain unprecedented insights about insight to rethink their data environments for new value—using consumers. Insights derived from big data analytics will drive analytics and social and mobile technologies. Discover how future decisions in accurately delivering the right message the IBM big data platform and IBM® PureData™ System to the right person at the right time at the right price for for Analytics, powered by Netezza® technology, can help maximized customer value. marketers better acquire, grow and retain customers, target high-value customers, determine the best channels for reaching The wealth of big data can be used to create win-win scenarios those customers, tailor the messaging and ultimately deliver in which insights are turned into relevance as customers prog- better results. ress through the purchase funnel. Yet the volume, velocity and variety of big data also comes with numerous challenges defined How to acquire, grow and retain by questions about how best to access, analyze, optimize customers and apply insights to innovate customer lifecycles and create Do your competitors have more insight about your customers differentiated experiences: than you do? Are you effectively converting your audience insights into added value for your consumers? The following ●● Are we acquiring, aggregating, and analyzing the right four objectives can help you can acquire, grow, and retain cus- data sources? tomers by improving customer interaction, building long term ●● Does fine-grained customer segmentation and influence relationships and realizing value from customer sentiment. assessment truly help us to target our campaigns for maximum lift? 1. Personalization—Ensure each customer interaction is unique ●● Do proactive big-data-powered target marketing and and tailored to buying journey by predicting best communi- engagement efforts expose us to charges that we’re cation method, channel, message, and time of delivery. invading privacy and stalking the customer? 2. Profitability—Enhance a customer’s lifetime value through ●● Are we going too far or not far enough to bring social, advanced association methods that deliver targeted up/ mobile, and other digital channels into the core of our cross-sell offers in real-time and optimize use of marketing customer engagement strategies? resources. ●● Should we be incorporating real-time click-stream analytics 3. Retention—Increase retention and customer satisfaction by and other behavioral data sources into efforts to tune detecting anomalies in desired behavior through sentiment the customer experience across multiple channels? analysis and scoring to proactively make tailored offers. ●● Are we truly differentiating with all of these digital engage- 4. Acquisition—Improve accuracy and response to marketing ment efforts, or simply keeping up with the competition? campaigns, reduce acquisition costs and predict lifetime value using granular micro segments based on profitable customers. 3
IBM Software Technical White Paper Digital Media Delivering a superior customer experience modellers in new approaches that are fundamental to marketing Predictive analytics captures unstructured and structured data, campaign analysis, such as MapReduce and R, text analytics uncovers hidden patterns and associations within that data to and more to visualize patterns and acquire, grow and retain determine future outcomes, and acts upon the insights gained customers through personalization, profitability, retention and through optimized, real-time decision making. acquisition. The following three objectives of customer analytics can help Past, present and future time horizons your organization gain deep understanding into customer atti- The following deep past, present and future core components tudes and preferences to predict future behavior and deliver a are important when it comes to a big data infrastructure and 360-degree view of the customer throughout their lifecycle: obtaining a 360-degree view of the customer: Obtaining the right data on your customer. This includes Deep past: How deeply can you look into the customer’s data on customer sentiment, customer experiences and feelings history when identifying how best to serve them? You need as well as inclinations and predispositions. The best place to the full historical customer record, including all purchases, find such information is through social media. The challenge transactions, and interactions. Missing information about the for marketers is how to harvest that intelligence and bring it customer during an interaction results in inappropriate or into a big data platform and correlate it with all the historical incomplete offers and communication, inconsistent service data on customer buying patterns etc. There are many addi- delivery, and weak customer relationships. tional, typically siloed, sources of data, such as mobile and geospatial, to combine with customer records to monitor Deep present: How deeply can you drill into the moment behavior and drive rich intelligence into predictive models. that the customer is currently experiencing, such as clicking on products on your website, in your store, or speaking with a call Process, store and manage data. Unstructured sources of data center representative? You need to correlate the full historical are rich and intelligent. Marketers need to process, store them customer record with real-time feeds of customer click-streams, and manage these types of challenging data sources in a coher- interactions, geospatial coordinates, social posts, and other ent way. Scalability and processing power is key as you bring behavioral data that changes moment to moment. in more sources of structured and unstructured customer data. You want the ability to enhance that historical and real time Deep future: Do you have predictive capabilities when it record of your customer as your ability to appropriately apply comes to your customer’s future, and how confident are you that data grows to add value along the purchase funnel. that you can nudge that future in a positive direction with actions you take right now? You need to continuously generate Build predictive models. Data scientists who are essentially next best actions by aggregating past and present data; mining statistical and predictive modellers can help with complex it for patterns relevant to customer propensities; and using it tasks including customer marketing and churn analysis. These trigger embedded predictive models that can drive loyalty, experts can help build and tune these models from all of this upsell and experience. data. Therefore, you need to train and cross-train existing data 4
IBM Software Technical White Paper Digital Media IBM big data platform and PureData System for Analytics CONSULTING AND IMPLEMENTATION SERVICES According to Aberdeen Group’s “Big Data for Marketing” survey, best-in-class companies’ data analytics for marketing is SOLUTIONS focused on improving the targeting of offers, delivering the sales, marketing, finance, operations, IT, RBI, HR, industry right message to the right person through the right channel at the right time. Best-in-class firms are combining campaign ANALYTICS management and insight with customer analytics for invaluable performance management, risk analytics, customer sentiment. decision management, content analysis business intelligence and predictive analysis IBM big data platform To achieve best-in-class requires transformation to data-driven BIG DATA PLATFORM marketing. Such initiatives require agility, yet major change is content management, Hadoop System, stream computing, data warehouse often constrained by IT system lifecycle costs and complexity. information integration and governance IBM is unique in having developed an enterprise class big data platform that enables marketers and advertisers to address the SECURITY, SYSTEMS, STORAGE AND CLOUD full spectrum of big data business challenges. The big data platform can help process and manage historical data at rest, real-time data in motion as well as execute the predictive models to help keep your customer relationships growing. Figure 2. IBM big data platform Driving customer interactions By asking how, why, who and what, questions requiring multi- 360 Degree Customer View ple systems, a fusion is achieved that enables deeper insights: 1. What products can I up-sell this customer? How? Why? Interaction data Attitudinal data 2. What impact will inventory have on this customer? Email or chat transcripts Opinions 3. What marketing materials or “next-best-offer” should I send? Call center notes Preferences 4. What should I know before contacting for renewal? Web click streams Needs and desires In-person dialogues 5. What’s going on with this customer today? 6. How can we increase engagement? 7. How can we get more customers like this person? Who? What? Descriptive data Behavioral data Attributes Orders By bringing disparate data sources together to create a Characteristics Transactions Relationships Payment history single view of each customer, companies start to see increased Usage history Self-declared information customer satisfaction and decreased customer churn. When Geographic or enterprise data is brought together with unstructured data demographic data for real-time predictive and social analytics, there are benefits along the content delivery value chain. This includes a deep understanding of audience sentiment, as well as the ability to Figure 3. Driving customer interactions with next best action solution anticipate customer behavior and offer real time incentives to accelerate offer acceptance and overall conversions. 5
IBM Software Technical White Paper Digital Media Marketing organizations need to combine the past, present To accomplish these data driven marketing efforts, and future analysis of customer data using a holistic big data IBM PureData System for Analytics delivers the proven platform. IBM provides a consolidated and integrated approach performance, scalability, intelligence, and simplicity that to big data and analytics: organizations need to delve deep into their data: ●● Assemble and combine a relevant mix of information Fast. Due to massively parallel processing architecture, ●● Discover and explore with smart visualizations IBM Pure Data System for Analytics can perform data queries ●● Analyze, predict and automate for more accurate answers 10 - 100 times faster than traditional custom systems. This ●● Take action and automate processes will help marketers and advertisers go “from weeks to hours” ●● Optimize analytical performance and IT costs turnaround time to slice and dice more complex sets of ●● Reduce infrastructure complexity and cost audience, advertiser, and 3rd party data to meet the reporting ●● Manage, govern and secure information demands of audience research, advertising and marketing teams. PureData System for Analytics Scalable. IBM Pure Data System for Analytics System provides IBM PureData System for Analytics, powered by Netezza tech- up to peta-scale data capacity starting with 96 terabytes on a nology, powers predictive analytics and statistical modeling half-rack system. This enables IT departments the certainty to to meet the needs of your customers, improve response rates grow with the data volumes from their business teams as they on marketing campaigns, and improve click-through rates on need to analyze new and more sources of digital media and various solicitations and product offers. marketing data. Simple and completely integrated. Deliver high performance automatically, with no indexing or tuning required. The inte- According to the IBV executive report, “Analytics: The gration of hardware, software and storage is already done real-world use of big data, How innovative enterprises extract value from uncertain data,” many organizations leading to very short deployment cycles to get the analytics up are basing their business cases on the following types of and running quickly. A portal helps to monitor and manage all big data decisions: aspects of administration for a single, easy-to-use access point. • Smarter decisions—Leverage new sources of data to Marketing objectives achieved with PureData System improve the quality of decision making. for Analytics • Faster decisions—Enable more real-time data capture As marketers and advertisers increase their demands to quickly and analysis to support decision making at the “point ingest, analyze, develop insights, deliver relevance and drive of impact,” such as when a customer is navigating your new business processes from a wide variety of existing data website or on the telephone with a customer service representative. • Decisions that make a difference—Focus big data efforts toward areas that provide true differentiation. 6
IBM Software Technical White Paper Digital Media types and sources and from new data being generated client is gaining new insight into its network and business throughout a system of engagement, IBM PureData System operations that helps it prevent churn and negotiate more for Analytics can help them achieve the following objectives: profitable agreements with retailers. 1. Audience optimization: Enable higher precision identifica- Benefits: tion, analysis, measurement, and targeting of existing and ●● Helped staff uncover the cause of a customer service problem new audiences for content/programming, brands, or affecting more than 60,000 subscribers campaigns. ●● Expected to help staff pinpoint the optimal location for new 2. Advertising optimization: Maximize advertising revenue cell tower sites through better mapping, measurement, analysis, and ●● Improved contract negotiations, enabling staff to negotiate reporting of all available inventories within and across more profitable contracts with retailers all available media platforms. ●● Accelerated query performance by 10 - 100 times 3. Marketing optimization: Achieve higher precision audience ●● Improved data load times targeting, optimized media planning, and campaign level analysis/reporting for marketing teams, MSPs and other According to McCallum, the simplified experience and built-in media buying entities. expertise of the PureData System for Analytics helped the team 4. Digital commerce optimization: Improve the precision, rapidly deploy its new platform. “The process went incredibly relevance, and discovery of digital content offering to its smoothly,” says McCallum. “About two days after the PureData audience members to drive greater engagement and direct System went into the data center, we were ready to go. We revenue. worked with Lexel [an IBM Business Partner] to migrate the 5. Business operations optimization: Improve forecasting, data from the Oracle platform to the IBM platform in March management and optimization of operational resources and April and switched over in May. Lexel provided a lot of and assets. added value about how to get the most out of our new system.” Engaging clients through value and insight 2degrees Mobile “We negotiated better contract terms with As a mobile communications provider, 2degrees is revolutioniz- the retailer for a more positive financial ing mobile communications with the country’s first pay-as- outcome.” you-go service. Its approach has been embraced by more than a million consumers seeking greater flexibility and lower costs. However, with no long term contracts, 2degrees must closely —Peter McCallum, Information Solution Manager, 2degrees Mobile monitor the customer experience as consumers can easily switch to another provide if they’re not satisfied. Using a high-performance big data analytics platform from IBM, the 7
IBM Software Technical White Paper Digital Media Trident Marketing ●● Improved pay-per-click (PPC) bids, calculating click-through Trident Marketing is a direct response marketing and sales firm rates, the number of calls generated by each keyword, the for leading brands such as DirectTV, ADT and Travel Resorts cost per call and close rates, along with a record of products of America, handling more than four million calls per year for sold. With this information, Trident Marketing can see its clients. clearly which keywords generate the highest yield for its customers and determine what bid levels are justifiable for For Trident Marketing, success is based on its ability to each keyword. acquire the largest number of paying consumers for its custom- ●● Gained the ability process more than a million keywords, ers while minimizing the cost of sales. That means running with a large number of permutations, quickly enough to highly targeted and efficient demand-generation campaigns. support its fast-turn promotional campaigns. But the company lacked key insights into the performance and ●● Supports complex analytical models on hundreds of thou- efficiency of its campaigns across channels, from the call center sands of consumers, creating significant value for Trident to the web. It could not measure basic close rates, or determine Marketing and its customers by accelerating analysis. why some sales pitches worked while others failed. The company needed better visibility across channels as well as the ability to analyze and optimize performance. “We anticipate taking predictive analytics Trident Marketing uses PureData System for Analytics to beyond the marketing process, all the capture massive amounts of data from the call center, order systems, CRM application, credit bureaus and search engines to way through sales and into our ongoing predict how customers respond to campaigns across channels. communication with customers. We see The company can quickly determine when to call a consumer, bringing this into the sales area as the which product to pitch and which salesperson is best suited to close the sale. Plus, sophisticated analytic models can also best way to monetize it.” predict which consumers are likely to cancel services within 12 months. In addition, analysis of click-stream data from —Brandon Brown, marketing CIO, Trident Marketing search engines helps the company optimize its pay-per-click bids. Benefits: ●● Increased revenue by 1,000 percent in four years by making sales and marketing campaigns more targeted and effective. ●● Achieved a 10 percent increase in sales in 60 days by choos- ing high-yield PPC keywords. 8
IBM Software Technical White Paper Digital Media Datalogix North American retailer Founded in 2002, Datalogix has built a successful business Sweeping change was required for a large North America helping companies drive better performance with their direct retailer. To acquire new customers and increase market share, mail campaigns. Datalogix developed an online capability marketers wanted the ability to “meet” customers during the with a vision to leverage the power of offline data, targeting shopping process. To retain existing customers and expand and accountability, and bring it to the digital world. cross-selling opportunities, campaigns had to be more relevant and personalized, instead of being just about brand. And to Datalogix had already proven that it could deliver a high return manage and measure campaign effectiveness, the company on investment with offline data, and it felt that the same target- needed advanced analytic capabilities. As such, the retailer ing precision could be delivered online. Their infrastructure sought to bring much of its valuable data back in-house and could not support the growing online data volumes and analysis limit its outsourcing to campaign execution. required. The IBM PureData System for Analytics, powered by Netezza technology, was implemented, providing speed, The retail giant implemented the Aginity Customer scalability and modeling capabilities. Intelligence Appliance (CIA), an integrated set of smart and adaptable software, hardware and embedded analytics built on Benefits: the IBM PureData System for Analytics platform; a high- ●● Drastically improved query turnaround time from 24 hours performance, scalable, massively parallel system that is powered to 15 minutes. by IBM Netezza technology and combines a database with ●● Scaled to support 50 percent data volume growth per year. server and storage technology in a single solution. ●● Increased campaign performance by 50 percent. ●● Improved ROI. The solution helps transform marketing efforts with a sophisti- ●● Gained the ability for analytic people to run their own cated solution powered by advanced behavioral analysis tools. It queries; can join a 400 million row table to a 600 million also captures and consolidates customer, sales and product data row table in minutes. from dozens of internal and external applications, resulting in ●● Gained the ability to track multi-channel performance. an unprecedented 360-degree omni-channel customer view that ●● Helps the client optimize its bidding on the display ad- helps the company identify and segment its most profitable exchanges, which is a complex task. The company has to customers and sales channels. By segmenting, tracking and incorporate frequency capping and price volume curves scoring customers based on thousands of behavioral attributes, into its bid optimization algorithms. such as shopping frequency, spend, historical purchases, sea- sonal buying habits and countless other factors, marketers can An eyewear retailer in the United States refine, target and customize marketing campaigns down to the individual level while simultaneously boosting customer loyalty, anticipates improving marketing effective- retention and revenue. ness by 10 percent, developing more person- alized campaigns, and conducting faster and richer customer segmentations based on customer attributes. 9
IBM Software Technical White Paper Digital Media Benefits From improving customer insight to waging loyalty campaigns ●● Anticipates improving marketing effectiveness by 10 percent. and implementing retention strategies, businesses are presented ●● Gains ability to develop more personalized campaigns that with a range of challenges—and a wealth of tools—from which demonstrate intimate knowledge of each customer’s buying to choose. Today’s big data requires sophisticated analytics that preferences. use iterative analysis and pattern recognition, not to mention ●● Enables marketers to conduct faster and richer customer the ability to handle the sheer size of data workloads with segmentations based on customer attributes. which businesses must now contend. ●● Gains the ability to acquire new customers by targeting non-digital channel shoppers to purchase items through Migrating from traditional marketing approaches to data-driven the company’s commerce site. techniques is a significant process that takes time. The follow- ●● Enables data feed from online channels and the ability to ing five steps can help digital media organizations achieve capture data from numerous customer interaction devices, acquire, grow and retain customers: such as smartphones, tablets, PDAs and laptops. ●● Enables capture and ingest of customer behavioral data from 1. Recognize the vast new amounts of consumer data as online sales channels, in-store POS systems, and internal the emerging core asset in your digital marketing future. and external customer databases, and feed it to the analytics Until you take this step you will be standing still as competi- engine. tors with greater foresight surge ahead. Determine if your ●● Provides a 360-degree, highly detailed view of customer organization requires deep dives on what people are saying trends, preferences and patterns across all sales channels, on social media. It may be that your target market are those helping the company create highly targeted, relevant individuals who don’t use social media heavily or aren’t campaigns and track, score and segment nearly 100 million influenced by social challenges. customers. 2. Gain access to your own big data. Even very basic analysis of the data you own but haven’t yet studied can yield meaningful insights about customer loyalty, churn, simple Roadmap to holistic customer likes and dislikes surrounding specific products and brands engagement through big-data analytics etc. It can begin an interest for accessing deeper customer insights and without such insights critical goals such as greater personalization in consumer messaging cannot be achieved. 24% 47% 28% 3. Commence simple, data-driven campaigns to apply Planning big data activities Pilot and Have not implementation of reliable measurement dimensions to justify moving ahead begun big data activities big data activities to more advanced data-based digital marketing. This step is all about deliberate customer engagement based upon elementary analysis and the insights gleaned. Digital market- 12 ing lends itself to more solid ROI measurement than any 34 of the devolving traditional approaches. Your migration into big data digital marketing is heavily dependent on demonstrating ROI. Figure 4. Big data preparation by media and entertainment clients 10
IBM Software Technical White Paper Digital Media 4. Add platform services and talent to expedite the develop- Marketers need to be as agile as possible in this fast paced and ment of an expanding big data-focused culture in your changing connected consumer era. This requires an uncompli- marketing organization. Once you have proven that small cated, easy-to-maintain system that runs lightning fast and campaigns rooted in basic data analysis can be clearly analyzes growing digital media-based data volumes. IBM Pure correlated to improved ROI, you will be in a position to take Data System for Analytics offers one of the fastest time-to-value advantage of tools like data management platforms (DMPs) for important business intelligence and analytics initiatives. and demand side platforms (DSPs). These relatively inexpen- sive platforms dramatically increase your access to data About IBM PureData System for Analytics across multiple channels and provide more personalized The IBM PureData System for Analytics, powered by Netezza and predictive customer insights around which to build technology, integrates database, server and storage into a single, more targeted campaigns. easy-to-manage appliance that requires minimal setup and 5. Seek out and invest in your own big data platform. This ongoing administration while producing faster and more is the natural result of rigorously adhering to ROI measure- consistent analytic performance. The IBM PureData System ment, the addition of data-science talent that understands for Analytics simplifies business analytics dramatically by con- marketing principles and the positioning of big data analytics solidating all analytic activity in the appliance, right where the as the new core for digital marketing—a multi-year process. data resides, for industry-leading performance. Visit: ibm.com/ A critical factor, no matter where you are starting from, is to PureSystems to see how our family of expert integrated systems build flexibility into your strategy so you can add new sources eliminates complexity at every step and helps you drive true into your big data platform as well as new types of analytics business value for your organization. as your needs evolve. About IBM Data Warehousing and Conclusion Analytics solutions Customers won’t wait for you to upload the nightly batch of IBM provides the broadest and most comprehensive portfolio fresh intelligence for new offers. Your business needs a real- of data warehousing, information management and business time, 360-degree view of the world through the customer’s eyes analytic software, hardware and solutions to help customers that is updated moment-to-moment. Throughout the world, maximize the value of their information assets and discover marketing and digital media organizations face a growing new insights to make better and faster decisions and optimize variety of analytics tools while also facing a critical shortage their business outcomes. of analytical skills. Big data effectiveness hinges on addressing this significant gap. The optimal market and customer strategy can help an organization turn customers into advocates, infuse customer interactions across each channel with positive impres- sions of the brand, and help engender a feeling of loyalty across the customer base that drives campaign performance and positive business results. 11
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