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Grow Customer Revenue

With the rapid growth of mobile devices and applications on multigenerational technologies, new rate plans and Internet and broadband ubiquity, today’s subscribers are being overloaded with offers. However, communications service providers (CSPs) lack the customer insight to increase average revenue per user – given customers’ complex ecosystem of devices, applications, services and data which is scattered among numerous systems. To grow revenue, CSPs must integrate the customer view, create more targeted customer segments, analyze behaviors and costs and optimize their offer strategy.

" The insights derived from our new analytics capabilities are allowing us to find the sweet spots that will continue to drive loyalty, profitability and sustainable growth."

—Carrie Gray

Executive Director for Medium Business Marketing

Verizon

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How SAS® Can Help 

We can help you increase average revenue per user ARPU most effectively and profitably by giving you the ability to:

  • Gain a holistic view of the customer, integrating data across the enterprise and from third-party sources and removing duplicate customer records.
  • Create more targeted and granular customer models for cross-sell and up-sell based on customer insights, degree of social influence, predicted behavior and profitability.
  • Implement campaigns that maximize ARPU by strategically managing multichannel, multioffer campaigns and optimizing the mix of offers, customers and channels given various constraints.

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How SAS® Is Different 

Only SAS provides proven software, services and best practices that combine domain knowledge, data management and mining, analysis of social influence and media, campaign automation and optimization. SAS also provides:

  • Superior data management.
  • Communications-specific customer data model.
  • Proven domain expertise.
  • Powerful analytic capabilities.
  • Social influence analysis.
  • Critical early-warning alerts.
  • Cost and profitability analytics.
  • Patented optimization capabilities.
  • An evolutionary growth path.

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