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Big Data & Analytics

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Get a birds-eye view of your marketing strategy

Every marketing decision is both an opportunity and a risk on which a product’s success or failure can hinge. Integrated marketing management, underpinned by Big Data, is the approach that can increase ROI through a multichannel analysis and a more effective way to measure campaign return.

FOCUS ON: Big Data & Analytics,
Big Data

The huge mass of data in circulation from diverse sources represents a wealth of knowledge and potential. Those who tap into it can see what is happening in their market.

By using Big Data as a tool to support Integrated Marketing Management, companies can centralise the analysis of all the activities in their marketing mix, to augment ROI through multichannel analysis, better measurement of campaign effectiveness, and optimisation of resources and assets.

Database data (personal details, traceability, loyalty cards, etc.) is integrated with data from purchase transactions and interactions with the brands across multiple channels, and the classic customer profile is linked to a social identifier to build a fuller picture of the customer and offer a more consistent and personalised experience. In short, it is a holistic analytical approach.

THE APPROACH

At the analysis stage, the first step is to identify and build a set of KPIs (Key Performance Indicators). These serve to measure the customer experience and identify the correlation between marketing campaigns and the results achieved, both by type and volume of sales and by interest generated. After the data is collected, an algorithm is developed to estimate the campaign’s effect on sales, taking into account the period, the execution channel and the target market.

It is also vital to anticipate all the potential sources of KPIs for measuring Customer Experience, namely:

  • Indirect sources, like users’ unprompted opinions gathered through conversations on Social Media
  • Direct sources, such as transactions (quotes, bookings, call-centre calls) and audience measurements made on digital channels using the data available via Web Analytics tools (Google Analytics) and systems for managing Digital Advertising (Google DoubleClick).

In light of the diversity of the data and the need for deep analysis, in terms of both data granularity and handling the historical volume, Reply has focused on Big-Data technology as the most effective tool for supporting Integrated Marketing Management.

CREATING AN INTEGRATED MARKETING MANAGEMENT SOLUTION

To enable the Marketing Department to analyse the data, the system that implements the Business Intelligence logic must:

  • Access the Google Analytics platform every day and use Google’s APIs to capture all the data on visitors’ activity at the sites directly managed by the brand
  • Collect the data from the client’s legacy systems using the technology offered by the Hadoop platform to integrate with relational databases (SQOOP)
  • Process the data from Social-Media sources with text-mining algorithms to identify the sentiment articulated in the users’ messages and to bring out the recurrent themes.

The data and the campaigns’ results must then be assessed against the KPIs devised at the analysis stage, to enable the overall variation in the “audience” and in the business volume to be measured by period, execution channel and campaign market. In addition, a campaign’s impact on sales can be estimated via dedicated algorithms that analyse historical trends from previous years to adjust the calculation for seasonal factors in the data.

​Reply [MTA, STAR: REY] specialises in the design and implementation of solutions based on new communication channels and digital media. Through its network of specialist companies, Reply supports some of Europe’s leading industrial groups in Telco & Media, Industry & Services, Banks & Insurance, and Public Administration to define and develop business models, suited to the new paradigms of Big Data, Cloud Computing, Digital Media and the Internet of Things. Reply services include: Consulting, System Integration and Digital Services.​​

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