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WP14 February 2013 | CRM Magazine Sponsored Content Integrated data mining—the core to customer analytics success Companies like yours seek to use data mining to group customers into benefitsbased segments, to find those most likely to respond to cross-sell and acquisition offers, to improve retention, and to personalize communications in real time. Data mining can make the mountains of data that companies collect useful and immediately actionable, whether that data comes from: • Transactional systems • Contact centers • The Internet • Digital marketplaces • Third-party sources • Social media Unfortunately, in many firms data mining has not lived up to the hype and potential. Traditional tools require organizations to go through the complex task of building a data-mining-focused data mart, requiring months of work to locate the relevant sources of data, clean the data, and build the data into an appropriate schema. As well, traditional tools can be expensive, complex, and hard to use, and generally require an advanced understanding of statistics. LOOK FOR AN EASY-TO-USE SYSTEM The biggest barrier preventing widespread use of data mining is the complexity of traditional tools. Data mining will never achieve enterprise-wide use as long as tools have a steep learning curve and require a degree in statistics to run and analyze. Look for robust functionality with a beautiful and intuitive user interface that encourages you to ask questions and dig for answers without risk or resource mismanagement. GET A SINGLE VIEW OF THE CUSTOMER Clearly, data mining requires data—the more the better. But to get “nuggets” of knowledge, you need to have significant amounts of “ore.” Like many organizations, yours may have data scattered across systems and databases, and rarely have it in the correct format for data mining algorithms. Before data mining can begin, you must build a warehouse of clean, consistently encoded information—a significant task that can take months or even years. The process of preparing data for analysis can often take up to 95% of the total time required for data mining. ASSUME EXPONENTIAL DATA GROWTH AND EVER-CHANGING DATA SOURCES Data tends to be locked down, so adding new sources of data (think social and mobile) is discouraged, even when that data can be most emotive and directionally valuable. Plus the traditional tools and business processes used to tap into and analyze data can be complex and hard to use, and generally require an advanced understanding of statistics. Because of that, data mining might be limited to only a few experts in your organization. This creates a bottleneck request process as well as a disconnect between the analysis and the business issue, increasing the time it takes to take an action or solve a problem. With Infor Epiphany’s extraction technology, you can efficiently build an analytical data mart by collecting information from multiple sources, including: • Transactional systems • Contact centers • The Internet • Social data • Third-party sources • External data not housed permanently in the data mart. As a result, you’ll get a complete view of, and maximum insight into, your customers. AS EASY AS 1…2…3… EMPOWER BUSINESS USERS WITH INFOR EPIPHANY Your entire organization can get the full potential out of data mining with Infor™ Epiphany Customer Interaction Hub—a highly scalable, powerful, easy-to-use solution that’s integrated into marketing resource management, marketing, real-time decision making, service, and sales applications. You’ll be able to take advantage of powerful data mining technologies that aren’t usually at business users’ fingertips, including: • Profiling • Forecasting • Anomaly detection • Cluster detection • Classification and regression • Dynamic scoring • Real-time offer optimization • Collaborative filtering ABOUT INFOR Infor—the world's third-largest supplier of enterprise applications and services— delivers award-winning Infor Epiphany and Infor Orbis, helping customers leverage CRM, CXM, MRM, and social CRM across their enterprise. Infor helps leading companies manage the entire customer experience via the Customer Interaction Hub, and revolutionizes every customer interaction to intelligently engage in multichannel, closed-loop dialogues through the contact lifecycle. Visit www.infor.com/solutions/crm/