Analytics

Legacy CRM systems may obstruct the path to business growth and enriched customer experiences. Modern CRM platforms, with a focus on customer retention and prospect conversion, are no longer optional to achieve business success.

It baffles me why the industry is so hung up on data, and Salesforce's Tableau conference was a prime example. Let's look at how the industry is positioning Tableau and products like it, usually focusing on the idea of data.

Intent data is becoming an increasingly important tool among B2B organizations and retail marketers. In fact, 62% of companies now use one or more intent data solutions. Yet, as a new product category, intent data can be complex.

We spoke with Robert Brown from BDO Digital about customer analytics in retail sales. He noted that a fundamental notion about the role of technology this year is that it is critical to invest in e-commerce and digital marketing.

Building emotional loyalty with customers and employees might be the secret to long-term business success. One way a brand can measure emotional loyalty is to use tools such as customer analytics, which measures customer sentiment.

Quantifying an opportunity to gain the ability to forecast and call a revenue number is largely the sales team's responsibility. But often, those forecasts are flawed.

Zoho Marketing Plus is an attempt to bring things back into focus so that SMBs can do the same things in marketing that larger companies do with more labor. You might call this the second democratization of information.

One bad consumer experience can cause a customer to stop using a product, which is why the customer journey revolution is taking center stage at smart businesses. While customer experience analytics can rescue businesses struggling to effectively manage their customer journey, real-time insights are...

Intuit on Monday announced an agreement to acquire Mailchimp, a global customer engagement and marketing platform for small and mid-market businesses, for $12 billion in cash and stock advances. The purchase could be the linchpin that thrusts the mostly financial software company into solving more f...

The need for better customer journeys is a challenging goal. Overcoming operational challenges to become more agile in meeting customer needs -- and raising the maturity of the customer experience team -- will be critical to staying competitive in this ever-changing business environment, advised Blo...

Across all businesses, the entire C-suite leadership team is looking to validate an experience management program by asking one question: what is the financial impact of my CX investment? Making a business case to the financial leaders of your company means that you have to be prepared to answer any...

I've been writing about the importance of platform as a tool and as a strategy for a while -- and not only with regard to Salesforce. I'd say most CRM vendors have a platform story; others like Oracle and Zoho come up as examples all the time. The difference with Salesforce is that it's looking bey...

Personalization and automation, two of the hottest buzzwords in the lexicon of CRM practitioners, are all the rage for marketers these days. But only 14 percent of organizations are using artificial intelligence or machine language to automate their marketing campaigns. A survey by Rackspace Technol...

In the old days you could identify weak spots in your business and purchase software systems designed to eliminate or at least to significantly reduce those liabilities. Performing an ROI analysis usually consisted of two parts: a before study to determine the business' steady state; and a post impl...