Sunday, September 27, 2020

PEGA Decisioning - Predicting Customer Behavior Using Real-time Data

·         Applying adaptive analytics to your strategies will enable them to detect changes in customer behavior as they occur and act on them immediately

·         Adaptive Decision Manager is a closed-loop system that automates the model creation, deployment, and monitoring process. It can manage a large number of models without human intervention.

·         ADM can capture and analyzing response data in real-time. cases where data is available for offline modeling, predictive models can be used as an alternative, or in conjunction.

·         ADM models to be created under Customer class, Decisioining, Adaptive Model

·         Any Single value Property from Customer class can be a predictor. It can be added under Predictors tab. It can be either symbolic/Numeric. PEGA ADM will automatically remove the unused predictors

·         Define Positive & Negative Outcomes under Outcome Tab

·         On the Settings tab of the Adaptive Model rule instance, you can define values that will fine tune the behavior of a model as a whole. For example, the ‘Performance threshold’ value is a limit that indicates that any predictor performing below this threshold will not be used to predict customer behavior.

·         When you configure an adaptive model record no models are created. The models are created on-the-fly, once there is demand for a given model. When it evaluates the Adaptive Model component, it requests the propensity for each single proposition or channel combination that is dictated by the component inputs. If the models do not exist, they are created at this time

·         It is strongly recommended that you set both the channel (.pyChannel) and the direction (.pyDirection) properties in your strategies before you use adaptive models. The channel and direction settings enable you to make decisions based on customer behavior in a specific channel.

·         Adaptive Model Outputs - Propensity, Performance, and Evidence

Propensity – This is the predicted likelihood of positive behavior. Such as, the likelihood of a customer accepting an offer.  The propensity for every proposition starts at 0.5 or 50% (the same as a flip of a coin) because in the beginning the model has no response behavior on which to base its predictions.

Performance: This is how well the model is able to differentiate between positive and negative behavior. Again, the initial value for each model is 0.5, with 1.0 being perfect performance. Therefore, the performance value should be somewhere between 0.5 and 1.0. Performance is generally used to differentiate between two models relating to the same proposition.

Evidence: – The number of responses used in the calculation of the Propensity.

In strategies, model propensity is automatically mapped to the strategy property called .pyPropensity. 

There is no automatic mapping for the Performance or Evidence outputs. But they can be manually mapped to any of the strategy properties under the Output mapping tab (ModelEvidence, ModelPerformance).

Smoothened Propensity: To reduce the ADM Propensity error in early days.

(@divide(.StartingEvidence, (.StartingEvidence + .ModelEvidence+1.0),3) * .StartingPropensity) +

 (@divide(.ModelEvidence, (.StartingEvidence + .ModelEvidence+1.0), 3)*.pyPropensity)

Where: Starting Evidence and Starting Propensity are proposition properties representing the assumed values for evidence and propensity.

Pega Decision Management uses “Coefficient of Concordance” (CoC) to measure the performance of predictors and models.

 

 

 

Trend Deduction:

·         How to measure the performance of the new Proposition using Adaptive, Trend Deduction.

·         Define the required Predictors, Outcome (keydown will prompt IH Data options) and memory settings (Run analysis after 500 records)

How to define More than one ADM for the same propositions?

·         Define the 2 diff ADMS using different Memory settings

·         Add 2 ADMs and add GroupBy Proposition (pxIdentifier) with the highest performance. Now, we should able to select the highest performance Proposition.

 

All ADM models Management options can be found under ADM Management.

o    Clear Model - Clears the model responses

o    Delete Model - Removes the physical model

o    View Model Properties - see the settings of an Individual Model parameters

o    Upload Responses will allow you to import the Historical data. upload the CSV file and map the outcome.

Monitoring the Adaptive Models:

·         DS->Decisioining->Monitoring->Adaptive Models Reporting

·         You can analyze the Behavior report under Reports to analyze the Active/Inactive predictors. Also the Classifier allows you to analyze the propensity.

·         Performance Model allows you to analyze the performance of the ADM

·         The Predictors overview will enable you to analyst the various predictors defined

The implementation of the Next-Best-Action mechanism is a staged process with each stage refining the proposition selection process.

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