Megaputer Intelligence has announced that a purchase recommendation solution powered by Megaputer X-SellAnalyst™ and implemented at IHS call center and online retail store has been selected as a finalist for the DM Review’s 2003 World Class Solution Award. The World Class Solution Award is a symbol of excellence within the business intelligence and data warehousing industry. A team of industry experts selected the finalists from a pool of more than 100 world wide entries based on each entry’s impact, relevance and innovation. The DM Review announcement of the award finalists is available at http://www.dmreview.com/master.cfm?NavID=198&EdID=6621.
X-SellAnalyst™ is the analytical engine behind the document suggestion system that provided real time product recommendations and enhanced cross selling opportunities even in a rapidly evolving product portfolio.
According to existing customers, X-SellAnalyst can be implemented within about three weeks in a call center and six weeks – in an e-commerce operation. In a typical customer implementation, X-SellAnalyst generates a 5-8% increase in sales and pays for itself within two months. “An increase in IHS sales resulting directly from the implementation of Megaputer X-SellAnalyst solution in our e-Commerce operation [www.global.ihs.com] amounts to 5.75% of online sales,” says Jaren Green, Online Marketing Manager at IHS.
X-SellAnalyst requires virtually no manual maintenance and delivers objective purchase recommendations based on the analysis of historical transactions. X-SellAnalyst can learn purchasing patterns from data originating from walk-in stores and utilize the discovered knowledge for increasing customer utilization in e-Commerce environment. The system provides a very quick and easy implementation, as it can work with data residing in any SQL-compatible source and does not require user-entered business rules for its operation. The system readily scales to millions transactions and SKUs, as its robust learning algorithms generate recommendation rules on-the-fly instead of storing overwhelming amounts of rules statically inside the system.
To learn more about X-SellAnalyst please visit http://www.megaputer.com.
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About IHS
IHS Engineering is the leading worldwide provider of technical standards, specifications, logistics and parts information to corporations. IHS Group has annual sales in excess of $400 million and employs over 3,000 people worldwide. IHS Group is one of Colorado’s top-15 private companies and a top-50 Colorado private-sector employer.
About Megaputer Intelligence
Founded in 1993, Megaputer is a leader in business intelligence software. The company provides a family of applications and solutions that support business decisions and drive profitability. Megaputer offers best-of-breed tools for both data and textual analysis that reveal knowledge hidden in data warehouses, text-bases, and web traffic, and improve CRM, targeted database marketing and personalized e-business. Megaputer products are used by over 300 customers including EDS, Market America, Mars, Taco Bell, 3M, Chase Manhattan, Allstate Insurance, McKinsey, US Navy, DynCorp, NIH, Siemens, and France Telecom.
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