What are customer analytics services?
Customer analytics is the discipline of understanding customer behaviour, value, and lifecycle through data — answering questions like "who are our best customers?", "what triggers churn?", "what's the next best action for this segment?". Decision Foundry's customer analytics service spans Customer 360 design, segmentation, lifetime value modelling, churn prediction, and propensity scoring.
What does Decision Foundry's customer analytics service include?
Customer 360 design (unified profile across systems); segmentation (rule-based and ML-driven); customer lifetime value (CLV) modelling; churn prediction; propensity scoring; next-best-action models; cross-sell / upsell analytics; and journey analytics. Built on your existing data stack — typically Salesforce Data Cloud, Snowflake / Databricks, or a combination.
How is this different from generic data analytics?
Customer analytics is purpose-built around individuals — not aggregate metrics. Generic data analytics tells you "conversion rate is up 12%"; customer analytics tells you "high-CLV customers in segment X are churning at 2x normal rates because of trigger Y, and here are the 4,200 specific accounts at risk." That precision requires customer-centric data modelling and ML expertise — both purpose-built workstreams.
How long does a customer analytics project take?
A focused engagement (single use case — e.g., churn model or CLV scoring) typically runs 2–4 months. Enterprise customer analytics programs (Customer 360 + multiple ML models + activation across channels) run 6–12 months. We typically start with the highest-ROI use case and expand from there.
We already have a CDP — do we still need this?
A CDP is the data layer; customer analytics is what you do with it. CDPs (Salesforce Data Cloud, Segment, Tealium AudienceStream, Adobe Real-Time CDP) unify customer data — they don't typically include the ML models that predict CLV, churn, or next-best-action. We layer customer analytics on top of your CDP investment.
Why Decision Foundry for customer analytics?
Cross-stack credentials — Salesforce SELECT (Data Cloud), Snowflake Select, Databricks Premier (ML-at-scale), Tableau Premier. Meaning we can design customer analytics on the right stack for your situation, not push you toward whatever single platform we know best. Plus delivery experience across retail, financial services, media, healthcare, and automotive — where customer analytics matters most.