Industries / Life Sciences

Marketing Operations

Develop precise life sciences marketing programs, on time and on budget

For most life sciences companies, increasing both the cost-effectiveness and overall efficiency of marketing operations is a major concern. Shrinking profit margins are causing focus to shift to marketing budget management and cost containment. At the same time, there's an ongoing challenge to deliver revenue growth through more specialized therapies and fewer potential blockbuster medications, which makes successful new product launches essential. As a result, achieving operational excellence in marketing is critical to ensuring maximum benefit from marketing spending.

" Although we continue to see a lot of tactical buying around areas such as social, campaign management, analytics and MRM, we are also seeing areas of focused integration among executional, operational and analytical processes.""

— Kimberly Collins, Adam Sarner

Gartner Inc., Magic Quadrant for Integrated Marketing Management, Oct. 26, 2011


How SAS® Can Help 

SAS provides a full suite of customer intelligence solutions that help life sciences companies systematically plan, manage and execute their enterprise marketing operations more efficiently and effectively. SAS enables you to:

  • Achieve greater marketing efficiency and accountability by integrating marketing processes, allocating and tracking budgets, managing and distributing digital assets, and measuring and analyzing marketing performance.
  • Complete more marketing campaigns faster by planning, testing and executing campaigns using an automated, trackable and easy-to-repeat process. Graphical campaign management tools accelerate the process of planning and executing campaigns.
  • Exceed customer expectations during customer interactions – e.g., on physician or consumer Web portals, mobile devices or customer care centers – using a combination of analytics and business logic to make optimal real-time decisions about the most relevant offers and messages for each customer.

How SAS® Is Different 

Only SAS provides a unique combination of capabilities for marketing operations management, campaign management and real-time decision management. With SAS, you get:

  • A fully integrated business analytics framework that includes the best analytic and reporting technologies available to deliver fact-based decision making for marketing organizations.
  • A portfolio of leading customer intelligence solutions that includes capabilities for driving discipline and excellence in marketing operations through enhanced channel engagement, decreased time to market and greater cross-brand coordination.
  • Industry and domain expertise derived from more than three decades of experience and the professional knowledge of on-staff domain experts, who understand the importance of achieving excellence in marketing operations.
     

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