Compare MarketingConnect vs. SmartDX

In our fast-paced, interconnected environment, consumers navigate through various channels, devices, and physical locations with remarkable speed. Keeping track of customers and their data to provide relevant experiences can seem daunting. However, it is possible to overcome this challenge. MarketingConnect from Experian Marketing Services effectively resolves customer identities to create a comprehensive customer profile that integrates numerous touchpoints, bridges channels and devices, and combines offline and digital behaviors. This leads to a continuous, privacy-compliant identity that reflects every facet of a consumer's daily life. By uniting disparate data points, both declared and unknown, across various offline and online interactions, a complete understanding of your most valuable customers and prospects emerges. Our people-based graph, built on more than five decades of reference data, empowers marketers to accurately and consistently link real individuals and households to relevant data points, ensuring effective engagement strategies. This innovative approach not only enhances marketing precision but also fosters deeper customer relationships.

SmartDX transforms the approach to tracking and recognizing individual audience members from the very first click, enabling the mapping of their journeys across various devices, facilitating contextual omnichannel engagements, and attributing conversions at a highly personalized segment-of-one level. This innovative solution presents a robust alternative to traditional cookies, effectively reducing delays in contextual responses and eliminating lags within customer journeys. It allows for the capture of unique insights related to individual journeys and diverse audience attributes, including device, channel, conversion metrics, offers, and behavioral insights—both implicit and explicit—right at the moment of engagement and at various endpoints. Additionally, SmartDX distinguishes between known and unknown users, resolving the multiple digital identities of each audience member across different channels. By employing progressive profiling throughout interactions and touchpoints, it continuously enhances existing audience profiles, paving the way for customized communications and tailored audience experiences. Moreover, it ensures smooth transitions across omnichannel interactions, providing seamless journeys that are informed by past engagements and preferences. This approach ultimately leads to a more personalized and effective marketing strategy that resonates with individual audience members.