ClearAction
AUGUST 24, 2008
Customer Experience Metaphors Offer a Wealth of Insights Lynn Hunsaker. Like radical, man, but everyone tends to talk in metaphors. A picture tells a thousand words, they say. And we all use 5-6 metaphors a minute, according to author Gerald Zeitman in his book How Customers Think. So how much do you know about your customers’ metaphors? The ones they use to describe your brand.
Customer Experience Matrix
AUGUST 28, 2008
Now that I have that long post about analytical databases out of the way, I can get back to thinking about demand generation systems. Research on the new Guide is proceeding nicely (thanks for asking), and should be wrapped up by the end of next week. This means I have to nail down how I’ll present the results. In my last post on the topic, I was thinking in terms of defining user types.
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ClearAction
AUGUST 23, 2008
When Customers Complain, Make Lemonade Lynn Hunsaker. Negative customer feedback is a lot like biting into a lemon — the bitterness is hard to love — unless you give the lemon a good squeeze and some sugar, and transform it into refreshing and healthy lemonade. You’re only as strong as your weakest link, so those lemons — customer complaints and low survey ratings — are indeed essential ingredients to improving customer experiences.
Customer Experience Matrix
AUGUST 27, 2008
“You gotta get a gimmick if you wanna get ahead” sing the strippers in the classic musical Gypsy. The same rule seems to apply to analytical databases: each vendor has its own little twist that makes it unique, if not necessarily better than the competition. This applies even, or maybe especially, to the non-columnar systems that use a massively parallel (“shared-nothing”) architecture to handle very large volumes.
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Customer Experience Matrix
AUGUST 6, 2008
I somehow ended up posting some comments on QlikView technology on Curt Monash's DBMS2 blog. This is actually a more detailed description than I've ever posted here about how I think QlikView works. If you're interested in that sort of thing, do take a look. Tags: qlikview database technology qliktech analytical database.
Customer Experience Matrix
AUGUST 5, 2008
I finally had a conversation with columnar database developer Vertica last week. They have done such an excellent job explaining their system in white papers and other published materials that most of my questions had already been answered. But it’s always good to hear things straight from the source. The briefing pretty much confirmed what I already knew and have written here and elsewhere.
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