Zurich, July 26, 2023 – Today, Merkle – a dentsu company, focusing on customer experience management (CXM), announced an expanded collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer their clients entity resolution within their customer data solutions.
AWS Entity Resolution helps organizations match and link customer interactions across different touchpoints into a single view using deterministic and probabilistic matching techniques. This new AWS service, combined with Merkle’s expertise on hyper-personalized marketing strategies and cloud-based data architectures, will enable brands to provide their customers with the best possible customer experience across all touchpoints - online and offline. Merkle participated in early service experimentation and was able to easily and successfully leverage AWS Entity Resolution in combination with other AWS services, such as Amazon Redshift and Amazon SageMaker, to aggregate, manage and activate all relevant data from different functions in a single 360-degree customer view.
The retail industry is changing fast and online channels are rapidly evolving and gaining relevance worldwide. Brands whose customer experience was previously mainly characterized by exclusive brick-and-mortar boutique visits, or whose offline and online experiences were not integrated, were at risk of falling behind. Chief Marketing Officers aspire to create a seemless set of intimate, personal and meaningful experiences across every customer touchpoint, however struggle to find ways to fully harness their data to innovate and meet the extraordinarily demanding expectations of their audiences. Furthermore, they often have to deal with complexity such as disjointed technologies, disparate datasets and a lack of internal capabilities.
Merkle has an ability to design and implement AWS-based architectures to manage a wide array of data and activate it for a broad set of use cases, including but not limited to those for Finance, Product, Sales and Supply Chain. Furthermore, enriching this with second-party data, with use of AWS Entity Resolution, empowers brands with a deeper understanding of their customers, enabling initiatives for improved customer experience. Along with Merkle’s pre-trained algorithms, state-of-the-art ML models and automatic micro-segmentation to identify an individual customer’s next-best-experience, Merkle will help companies to further improve solutions to optimize customer acquisition costs, increase customer lifetime value (CLV), and implement new and exclusive customer experiences.
