customer behavior

The Internet of Things (IoT) unleashes valuable business insights through data that’s gathered at every level of a retail organization. With IoT and data analytics, retailers now have the capability to gather insight into customer behavior, offer more personalized experiences, achieve better inventory accuracy, create greater supply chain efficiencies, and so much more. But with data comes great risk. A recent report by security firm Thales and 451 Research found that 43 percent of retailers have experienced a data breach in the past year, with a third reporting more than one breach.1 Intel® technology-based gateways and Asavie, a provider of next-gen enterprise mobility management and IoT connectivity solutions, offer a security connectivity solution that minimizes the effort and cost to businesses to ensure safety from cybersecurity attacks. In addition, the Intel/Asavie IoT solution provides retailers with a solid basis to build their smart, connected projects:

Read this Microsoft case study about how Microsoft's Consumer Support Services - with its global network of support centers and thousands of agents - used digital motivation to drive agent performance and learning. Microsoft wanted new ways to recognize and reward agents while increasing their productivity. The focus was to change behaviors, develop skills, encourage sales, and drive outcomes. Microsoft identi?ed gami?cation as a solution to these needs. The company believed it could be more successful at encouraging and recognizing agents for positive outcomes through each customer interaction. Read the case study to learn how Microsoft: Increased productivity through gamification Drove agent performance with rewards, to change behaviors and business outcomes Improved agent knowledge and ability to apply the new information learned.

The retail sector has been expanding with each passing decade thanks to intelligent marketing, intense research around customer behavior, creative advertising, and the adoption of new technology. Now industry movers and shakers are looking to boost sales with location intelligence. With location intelligence, retail companies can track and predict consumer trends and shifts in demand. With these insights companies can capitalize on growth opportunities in new product or service areas. HERE Open Location Platform provides powerful, easy-to-use developer tools, standardized technology and scalable infrastructure to simplify the processing of location-based data. Learn how to gain a competitive edge with HERE Technologies.

Culture has become one of the most important business topics of 2016. CEOs and HR leaders now recognize that culture drives people's behavior, innovation, and customer service: 82 percent of survey respondents believe that "culture is a potential competitive advantage." Knowing that leadership behavior and reward systems directly impact organizational performance, customer service, employee engagement, and retention, leading companies are using data and behavioral information to manage and influence their culture.

adsquare offers brands insights into customer behaviors and footfall to underpin digital marketing campaigns. Using a detailed brief of the audience the brand wishes to reach, adsquare gathers data from a range of mobile, online and offline sources. This rich data gives a brand a stronger opportunity to create relevant campaigns for their audiences. It is critical to adsquare’s success that its data sources are reliable. As the world’s leading location platform in 2018 (Source: Ovum and Counterpoint Research annual indexes) HERE is building and sharing real-time location intelligence with adsquare which reveals patterns to show how and why customers make transactions in specific places.

How can brands make the most of the growing opportunities offered by location data? Understanding location and its connection to customer behavior is key to gaining full and reliable insights and making efficient change. HERE is building and sharing real-time location intelligence which reveals why customers make transactions in specific places. HERE’s Open Location Platform contextualizes consumer motivations in the world around them. As the world’s leading location platform in 2018 (Source: Ovum and Counterpoint Research annual indexes) HERE also shares its own insights into the future of reaching customers on their mobile devices as they travel, including in-car advertising.

SQL is a critical skill for business intelligence. From accessing to transforming to reporting on data, SQL gives you the power to get the job done. It can help you discover exactly how your company is performing, what your customers are doing, or how people have reacted to your marketing campaigns. Unfortunately, while SQL can tell you what has happened, it can’t tell you what will happen. What if you have questions like: • How valuable is a lead based on company attributes and their behavior on our website? • How much MRR will we generate in the next 30 days? • Which customers are likely to churn next month?

Traditional direct mail campaigns often deliver anemic response rates and direct mail campaigns sweetened with discounts don’t fare much better. Poor results combined with escalating printing and mailing costs and changing consumer expectations means that businesses must find more effective ways to get consumers’ attention.

Online video’s explosive growth has created tremendous new opportunities for engaging customers and developing new revenue streams. But despite the fact that video is becoming increasingly central to many online business strategies, many publishers still lack the tools and data to understand what factors are important in keeping their audiences engaged. In this whitepaper, we present data from the first ever large-scale scientific study that shows how video performance quality affects viewer behavior. The results help to shed light on important considerations that can help businesses craft a successful online video strategy – boosting their business bottom line and ultimately reaping the rewards of online video’s vast potential.

Today every business is focused on their customers, and finding ways to better understand and serve them with differentiated digital experiences. With all of the choices available, users have become highly demanding, and quickly lose patience and trust when web and mobile app experiences are poor. Today’s digital user demands rich, engaging content that is fresh, personalized, and fast. If your websites and mobile apps can’t deliver, they’re gone. This eBook will give you insight into: Monitor how users interact with your online applications by leveraging real user data Optimize behaviors that drive the most revenue impact across user locations and devices Validate whether the optimizations resulted in desired business outcomes using real-world situations

Today every business is focused on their customers, and finding ways to better understand and serve them with differentiated digital experiences. With all of the choices available, users have become highly demanding, and quickly lose patience and trust when web and mobile app experiences are poor. Today’s digital user demands rich, engaging content that is fresh, personalized, and fast. If your websites and mobile apps can’t deliver, they’re gone. This eBook will give you insight into: Monitor how users interact with your online applications by leveraging real user data Optimize behaviors that drive the most revenue impact across user locations and devices Validate whether the optimizations resulted in desired business outcomes using real-world situations

This Total Economic Impact (TEI) analysis has been prepared exclusively for you based on your inputs. The analysis provides a high-level estimate of the impact of implementing IBM customer behavior analytics solutions.

Today every business is focused on their customers, and finding ways to better understand and serve them with differentiated digital experiences. With all of the choices available, users have become highly demanding, and quickly lose patience and trust when web and mobile app experiences are poor. Today’s digital user demands rich, engaging content that is fresh, personalized, and fast. If your websites and mobile apps can’t deliver, they’re gone. This eBook will give you insight into: Monitor how users interact with your online applications by leveraging real user data Optimize behaviors that drive the most revenue impact across user locations and devices Validate whether the optimizations resulted in desired business outcomes using real-world situations

Today every business is focused on their customers, and finding ways to better understand and serve them with differentiated digital experiences. With all of the choices available, users have become highly demanding, and quickly lose patience and trust when web and mobile app experiences are poor. Today’s digital user demands rich, engaging content that is fresh, personalized, and fast. If your websites and mobile apps can’t deliver, they’re gone. This eBook will give you insight into: Monitor how users interact with your online applications by leveraging real user data Optimize behaviors that drive the most revenue impact across user locations and devices Validate whether the optimizations resulted in desired business outcomes using real-world situations

Today every business is focused on their customers, and finding ways to better understand and serve them with differentiated digital experiences. With all of the choices available, users have become highly demanding, and quickly lose patience and trust when web and mobile app experiences are poor. Today’s digital user demands rich, engaging content that is fresh, personalized, and fast. If your websites and mobile apps can’t deliver, they’re gone. This eBook will give you insight into: Monitor how users interact with your online applications by leveraging real user data Optimize behaviors that drive the most revenue impact across user locations and devices Validate whether the optimizations resulted in desired business outcomes using real-world situations

Today every business is focused on their customers, and finding ways to better understand and serve them with differentiated digital experiences. With all of the choices available, users have become highly demanding, and quickly lose patience and trust when web and mobile app experiences are poor. Today’s digital user demands rich, engaging content that is fresh, personalized, and fast. If your websites and mobile apps can’t deliver, they’re gone. This eBook will give you insight into: Monitor how users interact with your online applications by leveraging real user data Optimize behaviors that drive the most revenue impact across user locations and devices Validate whether the optimizations resulted in desired business outcomes using real-world situations

"The success of your digital strategy requires bridging the gap between your core capabilities and what customers want. Watch this on demand webcast with Forrester’s Vice President and Principal Analyst, Ted Schadler, Michael Fasosin, Chief Strategy Officer, Spindrift & DigitasLBi OSG, and Oracle to learn: - Key trends in consumer online shopping behavior - How to develop a successful digital experience technology strategy and roadmap - The essential components of a modern digital experience platform - How to achieve quick-wins and long term investments simultaneously You will also see a short demonstration of how Oracle's CX Cloud solutions deliver personalized, unified experiences across channels. "

Read this Stratecast white paper from Frost & Sullivan to learn about the challenges over-the-top (OTT) competitors such as Google, Hulu, Netflix, and Facebook are causing communications service providers (CSPs). Learn how CSPs can use customer behavior data to deliver personalized experiences and offers, and discover the solutions that can turn data into a competitive advantage.

Many companies can't predict which customer they will retain or which customers will increase their spend. With predictive analytics they can. This knowledge brief from Aberdeeon Group highlights research findings that show organizations which apply predictive analytics are able to: Establish timely and accurate insights into customer behavior. Empower employees to do their jobs more effectively. Encourage more repeat business and higher wallet share

Changes in customer behavior and expectations are causing organizations to make dramatic shifts in how they engage with customers. The requirements for a world-class contact center in this new environment have also shifted. In this white paper you’ll find five key steps to keep in mind when building a world-class contact center in today’s rapidly changing customer landscape.

Are dev and test constraints holding back your digital transformation? Today, just about all businesses are scrambling to add digital components to their products and services with the hopes of capturing—and maintaining—the interest of an increasingly demanding customer base. As you undergo this digital transformation, your IT teams face tremendous pressure to not only develop innovative new experiences, but do so at an accelerated rate—lest competitors beat you to market with the next big thing. Take a new approach to solving the familiar challenge of doing more with less—and doing it faster than ever before -- remove the constraints holding you back. At its core, Service Virtualization is all about removing constraints within the SDLC by simulating dependent systems, services and behaviors. In order to understand the true depth and breadth of this concept, however, it helps to see how Service Virtualization can be utilized in different development scenarios.

Issuers need to balance eCommerce payment transaction security and a smooth customer checkout experience. The crux of the matter is how to provide a seamless checkout experience for legitimate customers so they won’t abandon their transaction or use a different form of payment while at the same time stopping illegitimate attempts to transact. The use of behavior-based authentication to determine which transactions should be impacted by requiring the customer to go through additional means of authentication is critical for reducing customer friction while creating better assurance that the transaction is legitimate. Rules are an important component when providing this risk- and behavior-based authentication. When models are added, and used to guide the application of risk-based rules, the impact upon illegitimate authentication attempts can be greatly increased while the impact on legitimate customers is decreased, providing a better experience for the cardholder and loss reduction for

The entry of new players into the insurance industry, coupled with the introduction of new technology, has resulted in a change in customer loyalty and buying behavior patterns.

That’s why we’ve taken some of the old business preconceptions – whether service specific or not - ripped them up and rewritten five new business rules, designed to debunk some time-honoured myths and help you and your organisation take a leap towards that much-feted goal of customer centricity. Read on for the new rules we recommend, maybe take those and mix them with your own, why not share them @OracleCX? At a minimum we hope these new ways of looking at business will help provoke the questions you, and others, need to ask of your organisation – in fact, we’ve included key questions that will help provoke some conversations, so you can start to build a picture of what’s going well and where there may be room for more discussion and investigation.

Mobile is undoubtedly changing both our personal and professional lives. Customer service organizations should decide on a strategy to bridge the gap between mobile behavior and customer service. This requires a strategic review of value drivers, combined with a tactical search for relevant use cases. Don’t fall in the “we need an app for everything” trap — some users need big screens, some users don’t. Some need a rich experience, others just need basic functions. Your strategy must take all of these dynamics into consideration.