Predictive analytics offers something completely different from standard business reporting and sales forecasting: actionable predictions for each customer. This special form of business modeling foresees each customer purchase, response or cancellation, predicting the individual behavior of each existing or prospective customer under certain conditions. Naturally, per-customer predictions are key to allocating marketing and sales resources. For example, by predicting which product features each customer will respond to, you can target each customer accordingly.
However, per-customer prediction can't work without a healthy injection of your business expertise. To generate customer predictions that will have a business impact, predictive analytics requires a wholly collaborative process driven by business needs and marketing insight.
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Business metrics do a great job summarizing the past. But if you want to predict how customers will respond in the future, there is one place to turn--predictive analytics. By learning from your abundant historical data, predictive analytics provides the marketer something beyond standard business reports and sales forecasts: actionable predictions for each...