Customer Experience News & Articles

Indoor positioning company, YFind Technologies, has announced a new shopping analytics dashboard. TheRetailHQ collects data based on a person’s in-store shopping activities.

Business intelligence firm Alteryx has debuted Project Edition, an analytics package it has dubbed instant analytics, the kind to be deployed for a specific project and one that doesn't require assistance from IT to run.

Mom and pop have an advantage. When it comes to delivering a great customer experience, the small family-run business has the natural DNA to organize around the customer: a tight-knit team, a shared set of values, and an intimate knowledge of their customers and what’s important to them.

This month as we learn more about implementing customer journeys, it occurred to me that one of the integral parts of the customer journey is the online shopping cart experience. After all, we know that while it may be easier to get prospective customers to add items to their virtual shopping cart, getting them to check out and complete the purchase is much more complicated.

How important is good customer experience? According to a new report from Forrester, customer experience (CX) is more powerful in driving customer loyalty than even the perception of value received for a given price. 

Converting people is really hard. It's much easier to allow the already converted to do what they came to your website to do. 

The Value of Customer Journey Maps
Customer journey maps force an organization to look outside of itself and directly at the customer's perspective. Here are 4 key elements of customer journey maps.

The Next Generation Enterprise
As we slowly make the transition to the next generation of super connected organizations, there are 5 choices enterprises will have to make.

Time to Adopt BYOD
The mobile enterprise is upon us and many employees bring their own devices to work. Here are 5 reasons CIOs should adopt a BYOD policy.

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It was a busy week here at CMSWire as we finished up our month long focus on Customer Communities and moved over to look at Customer Journey Mapping. In addition to a great line up of customer experience articles we also took a look at the choices Enterprises have yet to make in the 21st century and examined whether or not bigger data actually means better data.

Let's take a look at a few notable updates this week in web experience management (WEM) from Microsoft and OmniUpdate that look to make it easy to move to the cloud and enhance WYSIWYG capabilities.

Two sessions at the DAMNY conference, currently taking place at the New York Hilton, intersect in their suggestion of a likely future path for digital asset management (DAM).

 As Apple rumbles toward yet another App Store milestone, there's hard cash (well iTunes gift cards) in it for the lucky few who download an app at just the right time. 

How's this for flat design, Apple's latest iOS update improves precisely one feature for one model of iPhone. Flat? Largely redundant more like. 

When is a digital asset management system like a good mixed drink? When it’s optimally integrated with other systems that act as complementary liquids do in a fine cocktail.

In the most recent version of its Digital Publishing Suite, Adobe has added previewing and embedding capabilities as well as updating older features, such as iPhone support and analytics.

It’s hard to find anyone who brags about how many departmental silos they have, but, as noted by the Keynote Panel at the Henry Stewart DAM conference this week at the New York Hilton, plenty of silos still exist in companies managing digital assets.