Digital Transformation Insights

Fri, 30 Jun 2017

Using Geofencing to Interact with Customers to drive Engagement

Using Geofencing to interact with customers to drive engagement

As of 2017, there are an estimated 2.32 billion smartphone users, out of which 80% of shoppers use their smartphones to purchase products. In an age of digital transformation, the retail and financial industries have turned to geofencing to target a wider audience and increase their businesses. Using GPS, RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification), wifi or Bluetooth, geofencing establishes a geographic virtual perimeter around a specific location like that of a retail store.

Read More
Thu, 27 Apr 2017

Converting Browsers to Buyers - Top 5 Searchandising Secrets

Top 5 Best Practices for Searchandising success 

Search can be your one and only interaction with a customer. Make it count.

Incorporating user data, deploying Smart search and discovery functionalities like auto-complete, visual search, self-learning searches can help you create personalized search results and a highly profitable customer experience (CX) without retooling the front end. Searchandising a.k.a. fusing site-search and navigation with merchandising can boost sales, conversion rates, and Average Order Value (AOV). Searchandising can make or break your Ecommerce experience.

Read More
Wed, 21 Dec 2016

Omnichannel Personalization in Banking & FinServ Companies

Financial services companies must put personalization technologies at the heart of their customer engagement and digital strategies to deliver the richer and more personalized digital banking experiences that customer want – and deserve.

Omnichannel Personalization in banking & FinServ Companies

Read More
Wed, 21 Dec 2016

From Big Data Insights to Omnichannel Experiences: Valuable Lessons from Fortune 500 Omnichannel Brands

By Srinivas Balasubramanian, CEO at Photon

From Big Data Insights to Omnichannel Experiences

Data volume and velocity, two of the Four V’s of Big Data, grow exponentially in a digital enterprise. However, these have no relevance unless high-performance analytics convert the data into what we call Big Data’s fifth VValue to Business. Innovative companies use actionable insights from Big Data to drive real-time marketing effectiveness, such as delivering high-value, personalized customer experiences to drive ROI and brand love; dynamic online merchandising like smart cross-selling and upselling to drive revenue; and insights to enhance an app experience, target customer with next-best offers, adjust pricing in real time or provide up-to-the-minute information about customers.

Read More
Mon, 17 Oct 2016

Powering the Omnichannel Personalization Engine: Big Data, a 360° Perspective, and a Mobile-First Attitude

By Srinivas Balasubramanian, Co-founder and CEO, Photon

Powering_the_Omnichannel_Personalization_Engine.png

Most companies fail in matching the experiences they deliver with what their customers expect. And that’s off-putting. But given the benefits of omnichannel personalization, it’s worth trying to learn from the few Fortune 500 brands who’ve got their personalization tactics right

Read More
Thu, 29 Sep 2016

Omnichannel Personalization for Retail & Consumer Brands

Omnichannel Personalization

Omnichannel personalization is key to winning intent-rich moments in the customer journey and cultivating brand loyalty.

In a channel-hopping, brand-shifting economy, customer loyalty is the direct outcome of a deep, thoughtful customer experience strategy. Retailers that truly personalize and contextualize offers to individuals can drive more than 2 times improvement in customer loyalty, according to IDC. Personalization technologies make lasting customer loyalty possible through unique and valuable customer experiences powered by a deep understanding of customer needs and motivations.

Read More
Wed, 31 Aug 2016

Top 7 Benefits of Omnichannel Personalization

Perfect omnichannel experiences are not just delivered seamlessly across all channels but are also consistently personalized for the individual consumer based on the user context, time, journey, browse history, situational and social data, and so forth.

But do personalized omnichannel experience drive better customer engagement, revenue, conversion, order value, and customer loyalty? Check for yourself to decide how consumers reward omnichannel personalization.

Benefits_of_Omnichannel_Personalization_for_Blog.png

Read More
Wed, 24 Feb 2016

Forrester, IDC & Gartner CX Predictions [Infographic]

Analysts predict that today's personalized experiences and multidiscipline CX strategies
will lead to more immersive 
omniexperiences, greater capacity, and through embedded cognitive services. Learn more about their digital transformation predictions in this infographic — and contact Photon's omnichannel experts to accelerate your brand's transformation!

Read More
Thu, 30 Jul 2015

Photon and Moxtra partner to bring a rich collaboration experience to personalized customer engagement

 By Subrah Iyar, Co-founder and CEO, Moxtra and                                                                       Srinivas Balasubramanian, Co-founder and CEO, Photon

Moxtra

There are differing opinions in the community on how a business should go about effecting its digital transformation but there is complete consensus on one essential element of that effort – the need to deliver personalized engagement for the customer. Context-sensitive engagement is widely acknowledged to be a critical element, if not the cornerstone, of digital strategy. Such engagement increases the business’s mindshare, brand relevance and conversion to commerce with the consumer.

Read More