multichannel campaign management

Marketing leaders will find a host of new vendors in this year's Magic Quadrant for multichannel campaign management. Vendors are focused on integrating machine learning, personalization and ad tech capabilities into big data foundations for deeper customer engagement.

Read the Gartner MQ: Multichannel Campaign Management to learn why Adobe is a leader. Forrester states, "Consider Adobe Campaign for breadth of digital and offline campaign management capabilities and its tight link to the analytics and content management functions within Adobe Experience Cloud."

In 2015, AgilOne, Microsoft and Pegasystems entered an already crowded market of multichannel marketers to choose from. Capabilities across the board expanded, making it harder for multichannel campaign management vendors to prove big competitive differences.

The multichannel campaign management (MCCM) market comprises vendors that seek to orchestrate company communications and marketing offers to customer segments across channels, such as websites, mobile, social, direct mail, call centers and email.

Both are fueled by a drive for progress, for pushing boundaries and advancing the status quo. In these fields, new trends are like a currency. Keeping ahead of the next big trend means being aware of the next big seller and allocating all the right resources – fashion design, manufacturing, and marketing – for maximum impact. Miss the hype and the next fashion season is bound to hurt the bottom line. New trends are also important to marketers because owning a new trend is a way to differentiate in today’s fast-moving digital landscape. It’s a way to stand out from the pack by investing strategically in the right approaches and technologies at the right time, then reaping the benefits organically by leading where others follow. Naturally, making these decisions requires a bit of trial and error. Nobody has a magic crystal ball that guarantees success. But as a rule of thumb, the companies winning in digital marketing are the ones willing to adopt new technologies while keeping an sharp.

What does it take to be relevant today? In the era of hyper-connectivity, consumers have become entitled, demanding more control over their experiences and expecting that marketers use data and insights to create a seamless, relevant brand experience. Research shows that communications containing relevant information and offers are the best drivers of brand loyalty and conversions

Context can make or break the communication – and, ultimately, the relationship – between a consumer and a brand. Today’s consumers expect relevant communications that speak directly to their needs in the moment. We have the technology today to deliver such messages – but there are significant barriers to developing relevant, contextual programs of this kind. Some of the development challenges represent new versions of old challenges. Take data as an example: it has always been hard to harness data from different sources and to leverage insights in real time. But today, there are additional opportunities – if not expectations – for marketers to use contextual data to better reach and engage customers through the optimal channel(s).

Your consumers are multichannel mavericks. With the right content management system, marketers can create meaningful, multi-channel journeys. Delivering a compelling, personalized customer journey across multiple digital touchpoints has never been more important. At the same time, it’s also never been so complex—many organizations struggle to personalize their campaigns and build cohesive multichannel experiences that can engage prospects anytime, anywhere. With creativity and the right content management system at your side, you can create meaningful, multichannel journeys. Watch this webinar to learn more.

The General Data Protection Regulation – or GDPR – is a European Union (EU) law that protects the rights of individuals with respect to their data. Adopted as an EU law in April 2016, organizations that hold data about any resident of the EU must be compliant by May 2018. With attention-grabbing fines of €20 million or 4% of global annual turnover, GDPR commands attention at the highest levels. And despite the “legalese” that compliance suggests brands utilize, the brands that balance legal compliance with a human approach will turn GDPR to their advantage. This white paper provides a series of actions you can take to make the most of GDPR to both enhance your customer relationships and mitigate risk.

Among all the trends and buzzwords currently shaking up the marketing industry, one concept is emerging as the one to watch: customer experience (CX). Providing individual customers with the best possible experience is becoming the top priority at the moment, even to the point where experience outshines product quality(!) as the main differentiator. This is confirmed by a recent Gartner1 survey, in which 86 percent of participating companies listed customer experience as the main factor for gaining a competitive advantage, compared with merely 36 percent in 2012.

20% of customers will be responsible for 80% of profit – or so says The Pareto Principle, also known as the “rule of the vital few.” So, while marketers are trying hard to increase market share, they should be equally (or even more) concerned about nurturing the customer relationships they already have. That means finding ways to strengthen bonds with your best customers and figuring out how to turn good customers into better ones. Personalization, truly helpful support, data-driven contextual marketing, re-engagement strategies, gamification… There’s an almost overwhelming number of options out there, each touted as your golden key to an enduring bond with your users. In the pages that follow, you’ll learn about five strategies to drive engagement and retention with actionable tips from Selligent clients – top brands that are at the forefront of creating and sustaining customer loyalty.

Reaching out to your customers across channels is difficult and takes a coordinated effort. You need sophisticated audience segmentation, real-time engagement insights, and efficient ways to orchestrate a campaign across all channels, devices, and screens. These capabilities, integrated and working together as they do in Adobe Campaign, create consistent customer experiences that span all marketing channels. See why we’re a Leader in Gartner’s 2017 Magic Quadrant for Multichannel Campaign Management.

Quality organizations are under pressure to reduce costs and improve quality, while being hit with new technologies and practices. Agile practices, rich-client technology and cloud platforms are creating disruption in the testing tools market.

Once again, Gartner recognizes Adobe as a Leader in its Magic Quadrant for Multichannel Campaign Management (MCCM)* based on our ability to execute and completeness of vision. Read the report to see how Adobe Campaign measures up.