Industries / Banking

Acquisition and Retention

Grow your customer base and increase profitability

Financial institutions increasingly have to behave like multichannel retail merchants by focusing on ways to expand into new markets, gain customers, keep them and maximize the profitability of each relationship. Still, it is an ongoing struggle to match compelling offers to the right customers at the right time. Customers use multiple channels to complete transactions and maintain many types of products and accounts, which makes constructing a consistent, consolidated view of each customer difficult.

" A change in behavior can be like a customer raising her hand to say, 'Hey, I have a new need.' That's when customers really need to hear from a banker."

—Richard Martino

Senior Vice President, Market Information and Research

US Bank

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How SAS® Can Help 

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

  • Create a single view of the customer by consolidating all data, regardless of source, in one place and then transforming it into a complete picture of an entire customer relationship.
  • Ensure clean, accurate, up-to-date data throughout the marketing process with SAS' embedded data quality routines.
  • Predict customer behavior using detailed analytics to determine customer value, potential value and retention scores, and to improve customer communications.
  • Connect offers to the right customer segments using predictive analytics based on demographic, geographic, attitudinal and behavioral data from across the enterprise.
  • Gain easy access to information with embedded query and reporting tools that get critical knowledge to those who need it for better, faster sales and marketing decisions.

How SAS® Is Different 

SAS gives you a complete picture of customer behavior at every touch point, including the current situation, growth potential and future value of each customer. SAS delivers:

  • Superior data integration capabilities. Pull data from nearly any source and transform it to identify valuable (and potentially valuable) customers with the highest risk of attrition.
  • The most powerful predictive analytics available. SAS is the only vendor that enables you to analyze data for trends and establish retention triggers that give you early warning alerts when a key customer's behavior is about to change.
  • Automated campaign planning. Pull more relevant, intelligent, predictive lists, so you can send the right offer to the right person.
  • Intuitive, Web-based reporting. Easily communicate critical customer value information to the right people within your organization.

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