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Customer Data Analytics

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) data analytics, or customer analytics, is a critical element of CRM. Learn to quickly identify and solve customer-facing business problems by collecting, organizing, and analyzing customer data captured throughout an organization. Explore our latest customer analytics news, analysis, and advice.

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Ready or Not, Digital Doubles Are Here

Can your CRM handle agent-to-agent commerce?

White-Glove-for-All Is the Future of Customer Care

Providing a premium, highly personalized level of care to every customer is the new norm.

Customer Success Platforms Enable Hyper-Personalization

New marketing tech provides a pathway to better one-to-one outreach.

How to Advance Self-Service with the Latest Generative AI Bots

Customer self-service is better today, but it takes effort to use it successfully.

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Want to Stay Visible in the Agentic Shopping Era? Make Your Brand Useful

Agentic shopping is changing consumer behavior, but brands can use helpful, personalized messaging to stay top-of-mind when AI does the browsing

Beyond Attribution: Why Retailers Need Causal Measurement to Improve Customer Experience and Revenue in 2026

Instead of relying on user paths or platform-based credit, causal approaches use experiments and incrementality models to determine whether a specific action genuinely affected an outcome.

What the Best-Performing CX Teams Did Differently in 2025

Leading teams in 2025 didn't chase quick wins; they invested in human-centric design, clean data, and iterative innovation to deliver measurable outcomes.

3 Trends Reshaping CRM Software in 2026

Every software category is racing toward the same vision: tools that run themselves. Prepare for self-driving CRMs.

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If the Fast Lane Is Self-Service Bots, Then the Slow Lane Is Stewardship

Will customer support in which human agents take ownership of issues become a luxury good?

Why Every Company Needs an Operating Model for CRM (and What That Means)

People don't use CRM the way it was intended.

Conversation Analytics: A Necessity for AI-Enabled Customer Service

These solutions are a foundational component for contact centers of the future.

Quiet CX Upgrades You’re Skipping While Chasing AI Fireworks

There are simple fixes that are surprisingly effective.

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