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As financial services customer behavior evolves in a digital world, customers are more willing to look at alternatives to traditional providers, placing greater pressure on incumbent financial services firms to differentiate their offerings. Accenture research predicts that by 2020, more than 30% of banking revenues could be at risk thanks to new competitors and new trends. Financial services firms must therefore look for new ways to retain customers and win new business. With a greater focus on personalization, providers can use solutions like ACAI to take a proactive customer-first approach, offering customers what they need rather than what the firm believes it should offer.
Developed on Microsoft Dynamics CRM, ACAI brings together innovative analytics capabilities and technologies into a single integrated solution to help financial services firms offer proactive next best actions across any channel. Accenture's Customer Analytics Record (CAR), created from decades of financial services experience, provides a complete omni-channel view of customer activity in a format optimized for real-time decision-making. ACAI then uses Microsoft Azure Machine Learning to analyze customer activity and execute robust analytical models that predict customer behavior and recommend next best actions. An innovative next best action execution capability, developed by Avanade, enables next best actions to be integrated with any interaction channel and system, including customer service channels using Microsoft Dynamics and digital channels. The result is a solution that enables real-time decision-making and recommendations, and actions to be presented and applied across any customer interaction channel.
"Innovative financial services firms are using analytics to gain insights that help them make better business decisions and present customers with more attractive and tailored offers," said Piercarlo Gera, senior managing director of Accenture Distribution and Marketing Services. "The Accenture Customer Analytic Insights Solution for Microsoft combines decades of financial services experience with proven tools and advanced capabilities. The new solution can help clients drive differentiated products and customer experience, helping firms establish a competitive advantage and ultimately positioning them for growth."
"We have a strong partnership with Accenture and Avanade, and ACAI is the latest innovation in our quest to empower financial institutions to thrive in the digital world," added Karen Cone, general manager for Financial Services, Microsoft Corporation. "ACAI represents how Microsoft technology can be used to help financial services companies transform into more insightful, agile and customer-centric organizations."
"Enabling new analytics capabilities like 'next best action' helps our clients transform their relationships with their customers," added Jeyan Jeevaratnam, corporate vice president for Growth and Strategy and lead banking executive at Avanade. "Working closely with Accenture and Microsoft, we are creating real solutions that enable our clients to lead the future of customer personalization through real-time customer insights."
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions -- underpinned by the world's largest delivery network -- Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With approximately 373,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com.
About Avanade
Avanade leads in providing innovative digital services, business solutions and design-led experiences for its clients, delivered through the power of people and the Microsoft ecosystem. Our professionals combine technology, business and industry expertise to build and deploy solutions to realize results for clients and their customers. Avanade has 28,000 digitally connected people across 23 countries, bringing clients the best thinking through a collaborative culture that honors diversity and reflects the communities in which we operate. Majority owned by Accenture, Avanade was founded in 2000 by Accenture LLP and Microsoft Corporation. Learn more at www.avanade.com.