Turkish mobile operator, Avea, chooses Xtract Social Links to boost customer retention campaigns
Helsinki, Finland, 12 April 2011 - Xtract, a leading provider of advanced analytical solutions powered by Social Intelligence, today announced that the Turkish operator Avea has signed an agreement to use Xtract’s industry leading Social Links solution.
Social Links will not only help Avea to reduce subscriber churn with proactive retention campaigns, but it also provides valuable insight regarding the social interactions within the subscriber base. Operators can use this insight to create and deliver propositions that are highly relevant to their customer base.
Social Links provides mobile operators with the opportunity to identify and reach out to likely “churners” with personalised marketing messages. This can be done in timely manner, even before the customer has even made the decision to leave the network and can still be reached. This is a key element of any churn reduction strategy and is possible due to the application of sophisticated, advanced analytics. Ultimately enabling the operator to predict the future behaviour of subscribers with a far higher degree of accuracy than ever before.
“Xtract’s solution is an integral complement to our in-house tools preventing churn at the very early stages, as well as identifying the social behaviours of our subscribers” commented Bulent Velioglu, CRM Director of Avea.
Mika Lindholm, CEO of Xtract added: “We are confident that the combination of our industry proven advanced analytics which are powered by Social Intelligence and Avea’s innovative marketing campaigns will ensure that Avea achieves superior results and realises their business objectives related to customer lifecycle and value management.”
About Xtract and Social Links
Xtract is the leading provider of advanced analytic solutions powered by Social Intelligence, dramatically improving the mobile operator’s customer lifecycle and value management processes. This is achieved by enabling mobile operators to approach the right customers, with the right offer at the right time.
Xtract’s tools analyse the wealth of customer profile and service usage data to predict the propensity of subscribers, and those in their social network to either churn or increase spend.
Social Links provides operators with new insights into how customers communicate with each other, and who are the most influential within their network and context, opening new and exciting opportunities for operator marketing teams. Xtract also provides advanced analytics solutions to other verticals, such as retail and finance.
About Avea
Avea, the sole GSM 1800 mobile operator of Turkey, was founded in 2004. Being driven by a spirit of innovation, Avea, the youngest operator of Turkey, has a nationwide customer base of 11.4 million as of third quarter of 2010. Offering services to 96.61% of Turkey’s population through its next generation network, the company is growing fast both in the corporate and individual services with the brand “Avea” and constantly investing in technology and infrastructure as well as in its management and more than 2,700 employees.