Since customer data platforms (CDP) emerged in the marketplace about five years ago, there has been debate about what roles they fill, especially within customer service organizations. They were originally developed by small software firms to provide marketing teams with a comprehensive view of customer records. Those records could be scattered throughout an organization, siloed by system and department. CDPs were an attempt to shortcut integration processes that are long, expensive and often...
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Topics:
Customer Experience,
Marketing,
Data Governance,
Data Lake,
Data Preparation,
Information Management,
Contact Center,
Data,
intelligent marketing
The contact center is still, for most businesses, where customer experience is designed, delivered and measured. And as we might expect, customer experience (CX) tools are migrating from where they started point solutions based on narrow functions into broader suites that encompass multi-departmental functions and reach across customer journeys. The goal is to provide more consistency across interactions, and to provide organizations with deeper insights into customer behavior along with...
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Topics:
Customer Experience,
Marketing,
Voice of the Customer,
Contact Center,
Digital Commerce,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
agent management
Ventana Research recently announced its 2021 market agenda in the expertise area of Marketing, continuing the guidance we have offered for nearly two decades to help organizations derive optimal value from business technology and improve outcomes.
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Topics:
Marketing,
Marketing Performance Management,
Product Information Management,
Digital Marketing,
intelligent marketing,
Conversational Marketing,
Digital Experience Platform
Ventana Research recently announced its 2021 market agenda in the expertise area of Customer Experience. Most organizations have some degree of focus on managing how they interact with their customers, but it is often a disjointed and constrained process. Developing an effective customer experience has become an investment priority in recent years as organizations increasingly recognize the importance of good experiences to profitability, customer longevity and advocacy on behalf of brands.
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Topics:
Sales,
Customer Experience,
Marketing,
Voice of the Customer,
Analytics,
Customer Service,
Contact Center,
Workforce Management,
Digital Marketing,
Digital Commerce,
agent management,
Customer Experience Management,
Field Service,
AI & Machine Learning
The contact center has long represented the starting point for customer experience initiatives. Now, however, most organizations are finding that they need to invest beyond this singular point of engagement. When organizations look at customer experience holistically, they see the need to incorporate the perspectives of people in other departments and channels of customer engagement. These diverse new points of view come with an interest in deploying CX technology that also meets their needs....
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Topics:
Sales,
Customer Experience,
Marketing,
Contact Center
Teradata is not a name that is commonly associated with the customer experience marketplace, but that is likely to change as customer experience (CX) practitioners wrestle with the problems created by the multiple streams of data thrown off by the many applications and customer touchpoints they have to manage. Teradata’s Vantage CX is a tool for ingesting and managing customer information at great scale, combining the functions of a modern CDP with the analytics that makes customer data...
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Topics:
Customer Experience,
Marketing,
Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Contact Center,
Data,
Digital Marketing,
Digital Commerce,
intelligent marketing,
AI & Machine Learning