E-commerce

LCBO.com launches online shopping + home delivery

Delivery to any LCBO store or right to your door TORONTO — Today, LCBO officially launched its new expanded online shopping platform, bringing a world of products to customers’ fingertips – no matter where they live in Ontario. LCBO customers will now be able to browse and shop from an online selection …

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Data Analytics

Cognitive commerce is the new creative destruction for marketers

  Today’s rate and pace of technological innovation is blistering. In its wake entire industries are being tipped askew; some are converging, some emerging and others are being overtaken by new competitors. Just consider the impact of Uber’s mobile app business model on the taxi industry, or Airbnb’s online marketplace …

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Data AnalyticsRetail

RBC wins Best Payment Innovation and Best Use of Data Analytics

PRESS RELEASE: TORONTO — RBC is honoured to once again be recognized by Retail Banker International (RBI) in its annual awards competition, by winning Best Payment Innovation and Best Use of Data Analytics for 2016. “We’re proud to be recognized on the world stage for providing an exceptional experience for our clients,” …

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Loyalty

Aeroplan and Cossette: Behind your plan

Aeroplan, Canada’s premier coalition loyalty program, has launched a new national integrated mass media campaign, bringing to life its new brand positioning—the result of a thorough process that began with extensive consumer research. Created by Cossette for Aeroplan, the campaign is based on the notion of Aeroplan as a trusted …

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Loyalty

Aimia releases latest Loyalty Lens Report

The Data Exchange Economy: Consumers willing to share personal data for a fair return But global report from Aimia shows businesses worldwide are failing to deliver on this exchange Eight in 10 (80%) consumers around the world are willing to share key pieces of personal information with brands.  Yet businesses …

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Data Analytics

Lifecycle Management: Creating meaningful interactions with your customers for the best outcomes for your business

By Mike Poyser Previously, I have talked about the importance of bringing together different data sources into an “intelligent data” single view of the customer, and then about how multiple segmentation can be used to create a much better understanding of your different consumers, enabling your company to start becoming …

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Data Analytics

SAS® Visual Analytics and SAS® Visual Statistics integrate to help business users and data scientists work in tandem

Tighter integration helps merge self-service data exploration and reporting with advanced analytics New releases from SAS ease the way for business users and data scientists to collaborate. New integration  unites SAS’ popular visual data exploration software, SAS Visual Analytics, with SAS Visual Statistics, a point-and-click application for developing predictive models …

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Data Analytics

IBM Opens New Cloud Center in Québec

New facility provides Canadian customers with local SoftLayer cloud services while keeping data in country Continuing to expand its cloud-computing footprint in North America, IBM has announced the opening of its newest SoftLayer cloud center in Drummondville, just outside of Montréal, Québec, Canada. This is IBM’s second cloud center in the country, which …

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Data AnalyticsLoyalty

DM Wrap-up: week of March 30

Customer, Serve Thy Self: New Study Reveals Millennials’ Desire for Self Service, Digital Interaction to Change Customer Service Forever Fifty-five percent of Millennials say that their customer service expectations have increased over the last three years, more than half have stopped doing business with at least one company because of …

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