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Prevent Profitable Customers' Churn

The highly saturated communications market has left few customers to acquire. This makes retention critical, as it reduces costs, builds loyalty, and increases revenue. With new smart-device rollouts, multigenerational technologies, complex rate plans and service combinations, customers have more choices. To retain profitable customers, communications service providers (CSPs) must understand their customers' experience, identify who is profitable and of those who is likely to leave, and which factors drive them to leave. Then develop and implement targeted retention campaigns that factor in constraints such as policies and budgets.

" SAS tools help us react with good offers to our core customers as soon as they show the very first signs of churn. The effects are measurable -- substantial cost savings that we can track right down to the bottom line."

—Jarosław Kosiński

Corporate Project Manager

Telekomunikacja Polska

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How SAS® Can Help 

The key to improving customer retention is gathering and analyzing all your customer data in order to understand customer behavior and develop more effective marketing strategies. With SAS, you can:

  • Integrate the customer view to understand the total customer experience; remove duplicate records and trouble tickets.
  • Prioritize, predict and pre-empt customer issues by analyzing network performance, CDR and trouble tickets to uncover issue trends, root causes and their impacts.
  • Target social influencers; create more comprehensive yet granular churn models.
  • Measure profitability of customers, products, and services.
  • Implement retention campaigns that have the optimal mix of offer, customer and channel given various constraints.

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How SAS® Is Different 

SAS provides an integrated customer analysis for CSPs including churn modeling, social influence, media, cost and predictive analysis to identify profitable customers, their churn drivers and implement successful retention campaigns. With SAS, you get:

  • 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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