Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Enhance Your Personalized Messages to Customer using External Data Feeds/Public data

Mostly Organizations are using their own Customer Analytical Records (All the information about a Customer data, products, usage and Marketing data) as part of Decisioning process whether its Inbound channel Real-Time request or Proactive outbound communication to send the personalized marketing message using tools like PEGA CDH, Adobe, SAS, Unica etc.

Personalization has become a must-have for messaging because of high customer expectations. To take Marketing personalization to next level, integration of external data feeds/publicly known information about the customer as part of Decision making process is inevitable.

I would like share few use cases which can enhance personalized messages to Customer in the Communications and Banking industries.

External Data Feed#1: Integrate Official Emergency services & weather alert systems API data to PEGA Decisioning engine

Using weather alert system data & joining the same with Organizations own proprietary Customer Analytical Records will help Organizations to target the Customers affected by bad weather/ natural disaster. (Post code can be used to identify the customers impacted to send hyper personalized marketing message). External data source will help Organization to prioritize the Nurture/Service messages to the Customers over Sales message.

Corporates can also use the publicly available weather alert systems API Data & send proactive service/alerting messages. Timely, relevant and Empathetic message will help Organization to increase customer Life Time Value and NPS.

Sample use cases to use the External source data to send hyper personalized Marketing message:

When customer postcode matches with natural disaster affected postcode:

o    For Banking & Communication, Waive-off late fee & allow them to pay the bit later

o    For Communication, Make some additional data & call free offer for affected customers until the situation is restored

o    For Communication, Send proactive service outage messages & notify the team who are managing the Infrastructure/Towers about the event.

o    For Banking & Communication, Prioritize the Nurture messages over sales (send proactive service outage message with ETA to restore the service)

o    For Travel, send a message with weather information for an upcoming trip

o    For Retail, send users a list of products that they might be interested in based on the current location (if its affected by Bad weather)


External Data Feed#2: Integrate Foreign Exchange API data to PEGA Decisioning engine

For the customers who are buying the ForEx regularly OR the Customers who are setup the Standing order to other Country, proactive personalized offer when there is a significant change to the ForEx will help Customers to book the ForEx in advance.  Hyper personalized Marketing message will help Banks to increase their ForEx sales and Customers would happy with the Exchange Rate deal they received.

To talk specific to PEGA Decisioning, mostly the prioritization of the offers/Actions is combination of ADM Propensity, Context Lever, Offer Value, Business Lever etc. Managing Offer value, Business is done by the Marketing Department most of the time through Revision Management process AND/OR other well defined Rapid deployment feature. Majority of the time, the opportunity will be lost before marketing team reacting to get the Marketing lever changes validated and implemented in Production. Very few Organizations doing Rapid deployment in 2 days’ time, few are doing Revision Management deployment in 2 weeks and majority of them deploying Marketing lever changes in 3-4 weeks’ time (BAU release change release).

Integration of External source data source could also help us to override Marketing levers to specific Target Group (Customers affected by bad weather in my previous example) and also it will help us achieve automated data-driven decisions from PEGA in real-time. This will eliminate of manual lever changes to force the specific/group of propositions to the customers who are in-need.

What are the other use cases you can think about to make the hyper personalized marketing messages by integrating External data as part of Marketing Decisioning process? Please share those in comments section. 


Happy Learning,

Nanjundan Chinnasamy


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