Improve customer relations, service and the bottom line with Spectrum Spatial™ from Pitney Bowes

April 15, 2015
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Many organizations need to create and maintain a consistent, single view of customers across the enterprise with accurate and complete customer information. For example, to effectively acquire, serve and grow customer relationships, home insurance providers need to assess the risk for a property, and telecommunication providers need to determine if they are adequately meeting customer service level agreements within specific territories. Poor quality customer information can be costly and will affect sales, billing and cash flow, service delivery and customer relationships.

A customer data management service that accurately identifies and locates customers with geographic precision in relation to the business network is needed.Accurate data and real-time analysis can help ensure that customers receive specific information regarding the availability of different service offerings. In some cases, the distance from a network asset or the service area in which a customer is located, such as an electric utility substation, telecommunications wire center or insurance flood zone, must be determined with high geographic precision to ascertain what kind of service the customer is capable of receiving. Organizations need the ability to understand spatial relationships with confidence, then make that information available to sales agents, service reps and customers in real time.

The integration of enterprise data quality, address management and location intelligence service-oriented technologies are enabling customer information management (CIM). For example, integration provides the means to correct, standardize, and validate customer information. In addition, it connects those customers geographically to the business network in a real-time environment using web services. Organizations are also able to determine the serviceability of a customer’s location to help sell services. They can assign pertinent information to a customer’s location required to enable service activation and provide services. These technologies are often implemented using customized rules that are published as Web-services using modern service-oriented architectures (SOA). As such, web services are often easily integrated into new or existing customer management and billing systems.

From the perspective of an actual use case for real-time CIM implemention using Pitney Bwes Spectrum Technology Platform software, this article describes best practices for the design and implementation of CIM real-time web services. The use case demonstrates real-time telecommunications,  company customer information and address correction, standardization, validation and geocoding, as well as location-based service risk information assignment and exception handling in order to help ensure data quality, data governance, and accurate service prequalification and delivery. Also, learn how an advanced mapping application can be used to provide advanced mapping and spatial analysis capabilities in conjunction with a web based portal to help review and analyze exception records where the location precision requires manual review because it is within the error of possibly assigning inaccurate service information.

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