Responsys Inc. today acquired Loyalty Matrix, an online marketing analytics firm, seeking to extend its capabilities beyond
City, Calif. company is buying its neighbor to the north in San Francisco for an undisclosed sum.
Loyalty Matrix offers pre-built predictive models that allow marketers to import data into an on-demand platform that help determine metrics like propensity to respond to campaigns, lifetime customer value and likelihood to attrite, which can then be used for outbound email and
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Loyalty Matrix has about 20 customers, including 24 Hour Fitness, Apple, and the Chicago Sun Times. Its history is primarily with direct mail campaigns. For example, with Loyalty Matrix models and its own data, 24 Hour Fitness found that customers who hadn't been to the gym within 30 days of signing up for a membership were most likely to attrite. The company sent out a mailing to this customer base offering a free guide to the facility.
With Responsys, customers will be able to add that ability to its email marketing capabilities. When brought together, data will reside both in a client's data mart and either the Loyalty Matrix or Responsys systems.
"We don't need to own all the data we really want to have transaction history and response and conversions from marketing," Olrich said.
Today's move is a must if Responsys is going to expand beyond its existing footprint, according to Surresh Vittal, senior analyst with Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research.
"If Responys' vision is to build an on-demand marketing suite, analytics becomes a core component," he said. "It's a noble move, but frankly they're broadening beyond email marketing which we know is a low margin, commoditized business. Can they convince customers why they're a better fit than Unica or Aprimo? That's going to be their challenge."
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