Monday, September 24, 2012

Effectively Monitoring Customer Experiences

Customer Experience Management  is one of the hottest items in telecoms today where there are solutions popping up everywhere evangelizing that theirs is the best CEM solution around. Is there a single product out there that can truly claim a complete CEM solution? Looking at various solutions they can be grouped in 5 categories

  • Sales focused solutions. This are sales point and web content solutions that are geared towards improving customers experiences while buying products and services. Such solution includes WebCRM, SAP, TeaLeaf, SugarCRM, Connectiva and others
  • Social listening solutions. This includes web crawlers and text based analysis solutions that mine social network for conversations such as Respontek, Opentext, Satmetrix, Oracle and others
  • Human agent based solutions that captures customers experiences while interacting with customer care agents such as the ones provided by Amdocs, Avaya, Zendesk, Pega, Marketforce and other similar solutions
  • Network based solutions such as interfaced probes, DPIs and network traces where there are several providers of such solution including system vendors like NSN and Huawei
  • Device based solutions that captures actual experiences, usage, behavior and interaction that customers have in using their devices when accessing services. Such solutions are provided by DingLi and other companies such as Carrier IQ

To fully monitor and measure customer experiences it must be done on all touch points from customers perception of a particular brand to the products and services they desired to buy to their interaction with customer service representatives and to their actual experiences in using such products and services.



Customer Experience Touch Points


All this touch points enable service providers and operators to determine how customers perceived your brand, it helps in determining what products and services are desired by consumers and which ones will they actually buy and use. Most important of touch point is knowing how satisfied consumers are on the products purchased and services used, including what phone applications they used. In terms of applications it is good to know how OTT applications or WiFi usage affect revenue generation and  profitability but most importantly how can service providers adapt to the age of AppEconomy. Social networks is of course a very important touch point nowadays especially what customers talk about you as a service providers and what they tell their friends.

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