SAS Customer Data Platform Capabilities
Seamlessly collect, enhance, extend and activate customer data in real time to move beyond traditional customer data platforms.
Unify customer information, understand digital activity and facilitate real-time activation – backed by market-leading analytics and powerful decisioning capabilities.
Create a rich, accessible omnichannel view of your customers.
Every digital interaction is consolidated to the customer level, linking known and unknown digital activity. PII-free identifiers help synchronize customer data sources – online and offline, geodemographic, account-level insights, call center interactions, external marketing clouds, a variety of databases (relational, Snowflake), etc. This provides marketers with an always-current and comprehensive omnichannel customer view.
Elevate segmentation to a whole new level.
Unmatched analytical capabilities help you turn customer insight into highly targeted segments. Embedded AI and machine learning techniques provide deeper insights into customers and segments, and these insights help refine retention, cross-sell/upsell and response models over time. Use what you learn to adjust your marketing tactics to get the best results – from creating ideal product mix offers, to optimizing website strategies to drive higher conversions, to determining the best timing for follow-up or retargeting efforts.
Shape journeys and contextualize communications in real time.
Real-time, two-way interaction between digital properties and on-site applications eliminates the digital data time lag for incorporating triggers into action. This enables dynamic updates of customer information and audience segments and contextualizes customer activity while facilitating real-time reporting, analytics and decisioning. Integration with vendors like Adobe and Salesforce – as well as external activation to ad platforms such as Google and Facebook – extends activation across your entire martech stack.
Keep your customer data where you want it.
A unique approach to data joins online and offline data for a complete picture of customer activity without requiring you to “lift and shift” all your customer data into a marketing cloud. This reduces data duplication and synchronization costs, controls privacy, increases data quality and speeds time to value. You can detect events as they happen and incorporate that data into relevant, analytics-ready customer profiles.
Key Features
Capabilities that take you beyond a traditional customer data platform.
Customer-level digital data ingestion
Enables enterprise-scale data collection with a single-line code insert for websites or via SDK for mobile applications. Allows brands to collect and feed every consumer interaction into a structured data model and provides unparalleled granularity and insight into customer behavior across digital properties.
Real-time identity management
Provides a true, real-time, 360-degree view of customer data through real-time deterministic identity management and dynamically updated identity graphs. Stitches together online and offline data while giving the user full control over appending, deleting and merging customer identities.
Segmentation plus
Goes beyond simple audience segmentation to include dynamically updated on-site and cloud segments, clustering, campaign targeting and guided analytics. This includes “do it for me” options, such as segment discoverer and autocharting.
Advanced activation
Enables omnichannel journey orchestration that includes algorithmic multitouch attribution, providing customer journey insight, real-time send/receipt of third-party events, and integration into decisioning engines, display media platforms and marketing clouds.
Digital guardianship
Ensures rigorous data privacy, governance and compliance. Includes APIs for retrieving, editing and deleting customer data; methods for encrypting sensitive data; controls for permanent storage of PII; and capabilities to allow temporary use of PII for execution, as well as the ability to keep your data on-site, exposing only what you need to the cloud.
AI, analytics & decisioning
SAS Viya supercharges your analytics with predictive models, forecasting, goal-seeking routines, etc. Boost empathy by including sentiment data, speech-to-text for call center applications and consumer feedback with NLP. Integration into the SAS decisioning engine, SAS Intelligent Decisioning, is also available to shape customer journeys beyond marketing.
Supercharge Marketing Data Management With SAS
Explore More on SAS Customer Data Platform Capabilities
Video
Customer Experience: Real-Time Decisions at Scale
Elevate the customer experience by uncovering deeper customer insights and making decisions at scale.
White Paper
Customer Insights Without Cookies
Learn how to use your existing customer data to achieve exceptional marketing results – no cookies required.
White Paper
Where Does Marketing Stop and Advertising Begin?
Learn three strategic actions brands should take to prepare for MadTech, which combines marketing and advertising technologies.
Related Offerings
Check out these products and solutions related to SAS Customer Data Platform Capabilities.
- SAS 360 Engage: Digital
Extract analytical insights from your data and use those insights to orchestrate meaningful customer interactions over digital channels. - SAS 360 Engage: Direct
Gain the power and flexibility to coordinate and deliver analytically driven direct communications.
- SAS 360 Discover
Capture behavioral information across your brand's digital customer experience and extend past traditional digital analytic reporting.
