We Have Three Key Pillars
REDICKAA SUBRAMMANIAN
CEO & Co-Founder Resulticks
Resulticks attempts to give enterprises a comprehensive solution that delivers on all of real-time, omnichannel marketing’s promises, empowering customer engagement efforts that are scalable, measurable, attributable and secure. Some of the results it has achieved include over 125 million USD in incremental revenue for one of the world’s largest consumer electronics brand, 20% incremental revenue through online sales on travel retail partner sites in APAC for a global cosmetics brand, and over 15% uplift in sales through “segmentof-one “communication for a healthcare brand in Asia. Redickaa Subrammanian, CEO and Co-Founder, Resulticks, talks to us about her platform TECHNOLOGY BEHIND THE RESULTICKS PLATFORM AND WHETHER IT IS AN INHOUSE INNOVATION OR WHETHER YOU’VE COLLABORATED WITH INNOVATORS FROM OTHER ORGANISATIONS
Resulticks is a completely integrated solution that we built from the ground up and using cloud native technology and multi-cloud architecture. It is built on .NET (Dot NET) with a big data-based backend. It has SQL and NOSQL at the back, and ishosted on IBM SoftLayer, Azure, and AWS. Depending on client demand, we can implement the solution in one of these cloud service providers. While the entire solution is built on Microsoft and big data technologies, and Azure is one of our primary cloud partners, we went to market with the multi-tenanted SaaS solution on IBM cloud. We are still hosted on IBM cloud in some of the territories, and some clients do prefer to have the solution hosted on IBM.
Although Resulticksis a full cloud, SaaSbased solution, to help businesses in highly regulated industries like BFSI and healthcare ensure data security, we also have a unique, hybrid deployment model, which, to put it simply, hosts PII data on premises while ensuring access to the full benefits of a marketing cloud (e.g., agility, scale). Whether in storage, during transmission, or on display, critical customer data is subject to rigorous obfuscation and encryption so no actual contact information will be on the cloud.
The cloud is where the marketer will be creating precise audience segments, orchestrate omnichannel experiences, and so on. The solution only picks up necessary contact information for targeting at the time of delivery, and triggers the communications on-premises. This way we can prevent the leak of sensitive data at a fundamental level. Our capabilities and initiatives around data security and privacy have garnered much praise for us from key information security leaders within client organisations.
DISCUSSION OF ITS MODULES AND UNIQUE FEATURES WHICH GIVE IT AN EDGE
Resulticks has three key pillars. Audience master data management, or customer data platform, enables the marketer to unify customer data—structured and unstructured, first-, second-, and third-party—from a wide range of sources and systems to give brands a 360-degree view of their customers. This is also the module that encompasses our advanced segmentation, audience identity management, and profile enrichment capabilities.
Next we have the communication orchestration pillar. We have an extended list of channels—voice assistants, email, beacons, social, mobile, etc.—that we can enable, which makes us a truly omnichannel solution. We give the marketer the tools to identify, profile, track, and engage every customer in context, across touchpoints, and in real time, thus always ensuring a seamless experience.
Finally, we have the analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) layer. While our analytics give us deep campaign and audience insights, predictive analytics, and actionable recommendations, our AI and ML foundation enhances entire aspects of the solution, from audience segmentation and lookalike audience matching to individual audience propensity scoring and customer journey mapping and more.
HOW THE FULL POTENTIAL OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY CAN BE LEVERAGED ACROSS VERTICALS AND SEGMENTS
There is no single recipe, and it all depends on the particular circumstances and goals of each business in relation to its industry. Now, there are some best practices that brands could implement. Digital transformation is all about creating a new business paradigm that puts customers at the center of the transformation. It’s also crucial to make sure the data is “un-siloed” and supports organisational schema and taxonomy. To maximise the returns from digital transformation and new tech adoption, the brand needs to foster a culture of innovation and collaboration, not just in the marketing function, but across the organisation, because the impact created will reverberate beyond traditional boundaries.
It’s also good to keep in mind the foundational role of data in all of this. The brand must tackle their data challenges first, and harness customer data to fuel and enrich all of its efforts in marketing and beyond.
CAN IT BE INTEGRATED TO IPAAS PLATFORMS AND HOW?
Resulticks is built with services enablement as a core and implements its services through a REST-based API structure. This enables Resulticks to connect various organisation data and processes through an iPaaS platform such as Mule and Dell Boomi. Resulticks as a solution is architected with elastic scaling, redundancy in connectivity, and resilience built into the process. In addition to supporting external data and processes, Resulticks today has 75+ readily available APIs to integrate with a multitude of systems from CRM, analytics, social media, DMP, E-commerce, and more. We’re helping business consolidate, augment, analyse and act on their data from any data source to any touchpoint.