Clients & Case Studies

Fortune 500 Manufacturing Company

Scaling Marketing Analytics Across the Enterprise

Challenge

The organization managed hundreds of thousands of sales, marketing, and support assets across more than 20 enterprise systems, but was unable to provide timely or accurate analytics around campaign performance. They lacked a holistic view and insights into the $2B in spend due to a lack of alignment across systems and a consistent approach to information management.

Solution

Factor worked closely with the business and technology teams to identify the major concepts (e.g. customer, industry, audience) used to drive analytics. The concepts were then rationalized into a single model to align the marketing systems with the concepts.

OUTCOMES

  • Consistent use of concepts, terminology, and metadata across the marketing technology stack
  • Provided foundations for additional capabilities like customer experience, personalization, sales enablement, and partner engagement
  • Increased visibility to content performance

Discover

  • Identified marketing goals and the required reporting
  • Assessed the taxonomies and metadata in each of the target systems
  • Worked with the key stakeholders to identify their unique requirements

Create

  • Created a flexible enterprise view of all the taxonomies and implemented across marketing systems
  • Defined and documented required governance for the enterprise taxonomies

Refine

  • Developed output format
  • Revised taxonomies to support new systems, business units, and use cases
  • Supported taxonomy integration with the primary systems

Scale

  • Provided ongoing design, maintenance, and governance
  • Supported application of the taxonomies in reports, content tagging, and user interfaces