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Nectar Card Judged a Runner-Up for Data Strategy Award

Trillium Software, a business of Harte-Hanks, announces that its customer Nectar Card has been judged a runner-up in Data Strategy magazine's 2008 award for 'Best Data Quality Initiative.'

The Data Strategy Awards, presented on 23rd October 2008 at The Royal Lancaster Hotel in London, give recognition to data as fundamental to customer-facing functions, such as sales, service and marketing, and equally to internally-focused operations, such as reporting, risk, business intelligence and compliance.

In 2007, in a multi-million pound re-brand, Nectar mailed over 10 million collectors with new loyalty cards replacing ones up to five years old. It was one of the largest 'recard' mailings in Europe and a big success. For each collector, a personalised card and later a pack was produced. These had then to be matched together and mailed. In the intervening weeks however, there were 300,000 suppressions on the grounds of data latency. Using the Trillium Software System, Nectar identified these suppressions saving around £150k in production and mailing costs and ensuring the right cards got to the right people, protecting the integrity of the Nectar brand.

Nectar has implemented the Trillium Software System as its enterprise wide data quality governance solution. From initial data capture in Nectar enrolment systems to member data gathered later via multiple touch-points such as its web site, by update forms, letter and phone, the Trillium Software System identifies data quality issues, cleanses data and integrates collector records. The solution accurately manages suppressions and also ensures that data meets with Nectar's business rules. Good data not only enables accurate Nectar mailings, but sophisticated customer profiling, segmentation and targeting of offers.



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