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Vision: The Customer Analytics Playbook
With the growing importance of customer intelligence (CI) in organizations, the role of analytics to extract insight and embed it back into organizational processes is at the forefront of business...

Organization: The Customer Analytics Playbook
A mature customer intelligence (CI) function needs optimized data processes, cutting-edge technologies, and the right analytics talent. Analysts add value to CI with their data-mining and...

Processes: The Customer Analytics Playbook
Marketers continue to emphasize acquisition and are willing to take the risk of acquiring customers with low long-term profitability. While retention efforts typically enjoy the spotlight in an...
How Six Vendors Stack Up In A Mature Yet Changing Market
In Forrester's 70-criteria evaluation of customer analytics vendors, we identified the six most significant software providers — Angoss Software, FICO, IBM, KXEN, Pitney Bowes, and SAS —...

Forrester posits a customer intelligence (CI) quotient with three levels of maturity: functional intelligence, marketing intelligence, and strategic intelligence. At the highest maturity level, the...
Benchmarks: The Customer Analytics Playbook
The customer data explosion shows no signs of abating. Companies need strong customer analytics capabilities to get a handle on customer data and make meaningful decisions based on analytical...

Landscape: The Customer Analytics Playbook
The analytics conversation is now front and center for marketers, thanks to the real estate that big data enjoys in mainstream media. As a result of this buzz, customer analytics practitioners who...
Tools And Technology: The Customer Analytics Playbook
With the increased focus on data-driven marketing, few firms have the budgets, technology capabilities, or analytical skills to advance their analytics agendas internally, and they frequently turn to...