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MDM-Embarking on CRM 2.0? Then You Know It’s All About The Data
Arguably the top lesson of CRM 1.0 was simply this—data matters. Though CRM 1.0 promised to deliver a 360-degree customer view, untold numbers of multimillion-dollar CRM systems fell short of expectations because they failed to address the incomplete, incorrect, inconsistent and duplicate data that proliferated across the enterprise.
Acquire & Retain Customers with Trusted & Complete Customer Data
Now companies are moving to CRM 2.0, in many cases to the cloud with salesforce.com or another software as a service (SaaS) provider. And this time, determined to get the data right, many businesses are looking to master data management (MDM) and data quality to generate a true 360-degree customer view. (more…)
MDM In Action: A New Demo On Customer Account & Channel Partner Management
One of the hottest areas of master data management (MDM) is using high quality master data to drive revenue by supporting sales and channel operations. Informatica customers have racked up some terrific successes using MDM to generate a single, reliable view of customer and account information—and here’s a key reason why.
Acquire & Retain Customers with Trusted & Complete Customer Data
With Informatica MDM and Informatica Data Quality, sales and channel personnel gain hands-on control of customer data, product data and channel partner data and the relationships between this data. Those customer-facing teams no longer need to spend most of their time hunting for information in the CRM system, SFA system, billing system, partner management and other systems and reconciling it in spreadsheets. And they don’t need to wait on IT to round up and deliver the data they need right away.
If you’re wondering how this works, check out our six-minute how-to demo on MDM for customer account and channel partner management. This new demo offers a practical, step-by-step walk-through of how a sales, marketing and channel operations personnel can evolve from trying to sort through the clutter of contradictory data from multiple systems to leveraging a single, actionable customer account data set that powers a 360-degree customer view in their CRM system so they can improve customer acquisition and retention.
How Banks Can Use MDM To Increase Customer Share of Wallet
If you mention master data management (MDM) to sales, marketing or customer service personnel in a bank, their eyes might glaze over. After all, MDM sounds like something for the IT folks to worry about—not something that can help customer-facing staff and managers do their jobs better.
Acquire & Retain Customers with Trusted & Complete Customer Data
But show them this new online demo on the business benefits of MDM, and you’d get a different reaction … quite possibly, “When can we have this up and running?”
This six-minute business-focused demo, Customer Centricity in Financial Services, gives you a step-by-step look at how sales, marketing and customer service in the banking industry can use Informatica MDM and Informatica Data Quality, to get a single view of each customer (also known as the single customer view), including which products and services they are using, and customer relationships (also known as house-holding). This information helps customer-facing employees improve customer acquisition and retention by identifying relevant cross-sell and up-sell opportunities to increase customer share of wallet, and by delivering better customer service because they have visibility into a customer’s full relationship with the bank. (And, it helps IT maximize the value of their customer relationship management (CRM) investment). This demo shows how easy it is to create three levels of customer views:
1) Single customer view: Creating golden records by reconciling names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, and other data from disparate sources for a single view of a customer.
2) 360-degree customer view: Expanding the single customer view to include the customer’s products across lines of business (checking, mortgage, IRA, car loan, etc.)
3) Extended customer view: Expanding the 360-degree customer view to reflect the customer’s network of people, business, and product relationships and help customer teams pursue long-term, multigenerational value. (more…)
Seven Ways To Reduce IT Costs With MDM
We often hear from our Informatica MDM customers about the main benefits they’ve realized from master data management (MDM)—smarter, faster decision-making and greater productivity though timely and reliable data. What’s less widely recognized is that MDM is proving to be a powerful cost-saving engine, as well.
For instance, a global investment bank saved millions of dollars by using Informatica MDM to virtually eliminate maintenance and support costs for a complex web of point-to-point integrations. If you’re using or considering MDM, it’s a smart idea to assess the costs of unintegrated data systems and examine cost-saving strategies and tactics available through a multidomain, model-driven MDM solution.
We’ve just published a new white paper, “Seven Ways to Reduce IT Costs with Master Data Management,” that drills down into using MDM to target the redundancy, waste, inefficiency, and unnecessary maintenance and licensing typical of a heterogeneous data infrastructure. A sampling of these seven critical areas includes:
- Interface costs: How you can minimize costly point-to-point integrations that support key business processes
- Redundant third-party data: How you reduce acquisition costs of duplicate data from third-party providers such as Dun & Bradstreet or Acxiom
- Data cleanup: How you can efficiently centralize data quality to eliminate expensive manual efforts (more…)
Executives Share Powerful MDM Customer Success Stories @ Informatica World
Our customer executives delivered some inspiring presentations at our recent Informatica World conference on how master data management (MDM) is enabling strategic business imperatives such as increasing revenue by making more relevant cross-sell offers, improving regulatory compliance with more effective reporting, and streamlining key business processes such as order-to-cash to improve the customer experience. A big thank you to all the presenters for sharing their stories!
These innovative companies are using MDM to better leverage their business-critical data about customers, products, channel partners, suppliers, employees and so on to do two things: 1) enable strategic imperatives or 2) solve pressing business problems. If you were at Informatica World this year, but were unable to attend these MDM customer sessions, you can get access to the presentations online by searching for these titles. (more…)
Bank Systems & Technology Webinar On Maximizing Customer Value With MDM
We just wrapped up a Bank Systems & Technology webcast with Dipendra Malhotra, VP of Client and Account Data at Merrill Lynch and Bill Bradway, a 35-year financial services industry veteran, managing director and founder of Bradway Research.
We focused on a very hot topic—the challenge of increasing revenue by expanding share of wallet and improving customer loyalty by better serving customers’ needs. In many cases, the key challenge that banks face is that their customer data is holding them back. (more…)
Webinar: Learn How Kodak Is Enabling Customer Centricity With MDM
If you’ve wondered exactly what type of impact master data management (MDM) can have on improving B2B sales here’s a terrific opportunity to find out first hand!
I’m delighted to announce that Kodak, the multibillion-dollar global imaging company, will be joining us for a must-attend webinar on how it’s using a multidomain MDM solution to enable customer centricity and empowering its sales, marketing and customer service teams with access to a single customer view. (more…)
Building A Better Data Warehouse
The devil, as they say, is in the detail. Your organization might have invested years of effort and millions of dollars in an enterprise data warehouse, but unless the data in it is accurate and free of contradiction, it can lead to misinformed business decisions and wasted IT resources.
We’re seeing an increasing number of organizations confront the issue of data quality in their data warehousing environments in efforts to sharpen business insights in a challenging economic climate. Many are turning to master data management (MDM) to address the devilish data details that can undermine the value of a data warehousing investment.
Consider this: Just 24 percent of data warehouses deliver “high value” to their organizations, according to a survey by The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI).[1] Twelve percent are low value and 64 percent are moderate value “but could deliver more,” TDWI’s report states. For many organizations, questionable data quality is the reason why data warehouses fall short of their potential. (more…)
MDM In The Spotlight At Informatica World
Interested in master data management (MDM)? Check out the MDM Path at this year’s Informatica World 2010 conference, November 2-4 in Washington, D.C.
The MDM Path features seven breakout sessions with executives from Merrill Lynch, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca, and Informatica, among others. You’ll hear real-world insights from users on how MDM has enabled companies to improve operations through consolidated business-critical data about customers, products, suppliers, partners, employees, and more.
It’s a great opportunity to find out what’s happening in the fast-moving MDM marketplace and learn about:
- Solutions: Best practices and lessons learned from practitioners who have solved pressing business challenges with Informatica MDM.
- Business Impact: How Informatica MDM provides the foundation for business solutions and the business value it generates.
- Platform and Products: Insights into innovative functionality for business users, data stewards, and IT.
- Architecture: What you need to know about the technical architecture of Informatica MDM.
- Tech Talk: Keys to success, pitfalls to avoid, and tips and tricks from implementation experts.
If you haven’t already, register for Informatica World 2010. We look forward to seeing you in Washington!
MDM – What’s The Cost Of Bad Data In Financial Services?
One of the most critical first steps for financial services firms looking to implement multidomain master data management (MDM) is to quantify the cost savings they could achieve.
Unfortunately, a thorough analysis of potential ROI is also one of the steps least followed (a key culprit being disconnects between business and IT).
This shortcoming is spotlighted in a new Informatica white paper, “Five Steps to Managing Reference Data More Effectively in Investment Banking,” which outlines key questions to ask in sizing up the cost implications of bad data and antiquated systems, such as:
- How long does it take to introduce a new security to trade?
- How many settlements need to be fixed manually?
- How many redundant data feeds does your firm have to manage?
- How accurate and complete are your end-of-day reports?
- Do you have the data you need to minimize risk and exposure? (more…)