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Big data in digital commerce

Written by Mandar Thosar | Jul 10, 2017 5:30:00 AM


Introduction

The evolution of big data and analytics have brought enormous opportunities for digital commerce industry. The large number of audiences offering massive amount of raw data are enabling digital commerce industry to add value and enhance the customer experiences.  

Fundamentally, big data follows two initiatives in digital commerce world. First is bringing in new opportunities and second is nurturing the existing and core value chains. By leveraging these approaches, digital commerce enterprises can expand their offerings and improve customer satisfaction.  

Big data improving customer satisfaction

Big data benefits the core user experience to understand customer behavior and provides solutions to the enterprises. In simple words, any enterprise that is using data on wide-range is applying big data to improve the customer satisfaction.  

However, there are various options available that can be used to improve customer experience. One of the considerable option is dynamic pricing. With dynamic pricing model, enterprises can surely secure a sale by incorporating it into their marketing strategies. The dynamic pricing is based on the generated data to improve customer satisfaction. The notion of big data also offers effective and curated marketing solutions to refine overall user experience.  

How big data works in digital commerce industry?

Digital commerce enterprises tend to search for approaches to engage with their customers and make them purchase more often. Big data provides them actionable insights and information of why a customer has abandoned the cart or did not complete the purchase. One of the major reasons of not completing the purchase could be filling huge forms or incorporating long surveys.  

Big giants such as Amazon are powering big data to offer personalized recommendations and develop new products based on data generated from the customer behavior. Digital commerce enterprises usually need additional information to help in marketing their products differently. Here, big data can not only help in providing this information but in implementing that as well.  

Moreover, big data aids in offering insights over best practices to develop and integrate payment solutions vital for customers who are willing to pay online.  

Empowering digital commerce with big data

Digital commerce enterprises seek to add value and satisfaction through smart big data solutions. As long as enterprises are using data effectively to spread product and service awareness, adding value to the customer experiences and improving existing relationships, big data will always be valued. As the enterprises are becoming more and more dependent on big data, it is going stay here for a while and will take the digital commerce industry to another level.