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Internet, email, search, web design
News Release from: Site Intelligence | Subject: Visitor Behaviour Information System (VBIS)
Edited by the Marketingservicestalk Editorial
Team on 02 November 2007
Site Intelligence partners with Business
Objects
Site Intelligence has created a strategic partnership with Business Objects designed to help organisations to view their customers' activity seamlessly across all their channels to market.
Gone are the days when customers interact with organisations through a single channel but until now it has been very difficult to get a unified view across all customer activity That has now changed thanks to the combination of Site Intelligence and Business Objects software
This article was originally published on Marketingservicestalk on 14 Jun 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The combination of Site Intelligence's "Visitor Behaviour Information System" (VBIS) open architecture and Business Objects' data integration capabilities allows online and off-line customer data to be brought together in a single integrated database.
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In addition to working together to deliver a comprehensive solution, Site Intelligence is also a technology partner to Business Objects, which means current Site Intelligence clients will benefit from improvements to its VBIS solution.
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Select Business Objects modules will be used to enhance VBIS, creating more sophisticated segmentation and profiling analysis and the ability to track customers as they evolve from one segmentation group to another.
This is an important development for the industry as businesses seek to gain greater customer intimacy.
With the recent report that UK Internet sales rose to GBP4.2bn in July 2007 (up from GBP2.34bn for the same period last year, according to Interactive Media in Retail Group) there has never been a more important time for retailers to be able to see how online sales compare to offline and to analyse how activity on the two different channels effects overall sales.
Tim Clowser, Head of E-commerce at Direct Wines, commented: "A completely integrated view of our sales channels will be invaluable to us - we see this as vital to our future, gone are the days when online and off-line activities can be treated separately".
Donald MacCormick, Chief Transformation Officer at Business Objects, explained: "We were very impressed with how much Site Intelligence could achieve in terms of web analysis and providing a single integrated database for online and off-line activity.
"With this centralised source of information, customers can use Business Objects business intelligence to gain greater insight into their organisation and make more strategic business decisions".
Site Intelligence boasts a client list including Boots, Dyson, Royal Bank of Scotland, SAP and Tesco, whilst Business Objects is a global business intelligence (BI) software company, with more than 44,000 customers - including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500.
This new alliance will be used to help both current and future clients to gain a much greater understanding of their multichannel offering.
David Jackson, CEO of Site Intelligence, commented: "This is the next step in Site Intelligence's development and provides an invaluable solution for current and future clients.
"Businesses that invest now in understanding their multichannel offering will swiftly reap the rewards and we believe this offering will play a pivotal role in helping those forward thinking businesses".
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