Business Intelligence Strategies for the CIOAt the seventh annual Text Analytics Summit, held in Boston last month, Andrew McInnes, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc. and moderator of the "voice of the customer" panel, posed a question to the four panel participants: Can text analytics tie together all solicited and unsolicited sources of customer feedback for companies?
Their answer: Maybe, but not by itself.
"I think text analytics does a great job of bringing all of the unstructured text together," said Chris Jones, senior manager of text analytics at Zynga Inc. "When we're solving for a lot of different outcomes, this is interesting stuff. But what's their likelihood to buy my product, what's their likelihood to convert to purchase more [products]? That's all tied into transactional systems."
That doesn't mean text analytics tools has no business value, according to the panel members. "Text analytics becomes a very important lens to organizing groups or content," said Jones. "But in the end, you have to tie it back to all of your transactional data, [and] your behavioral data."
In other words: Text analytics shouldn't be the only method of customer data analysis, but it can provide beneficial insights, added explanations and a connection to customers.
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trends that emerged from the summit. Highlighted here again is Jones, a featured speaker who
gave a dynamic presentation detailing 14 steps to make
your voice-of-the-customer program matter.
Another summit speaker, Daniel Ziv, vice president of customer interaction analytics at Verint Systems Inc., explained how mining both internal and external unstructured data can help companies avoid potential public relations nightmares before they take hold.
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