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Analytical CRM: new technologies for the pharmaceutical industry

Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Datamonitor
Published: December 2003
Product Code: R313-6271
Description
Introduction
With the ROI of sales and marketing efforts diminishing, the pharmaceutical industry needs to ensure that the effectiveness of existing marketing campaigns is optimized. To maximize returns, marketing strategies must evolve away from the traditional mindset and invest in technology with analytical customer relationship management capabilities.

Scope
Examines the Analytical CRM process, its benefits to pharmaceutical companies and the factors driving its use in the pharmaceutical industry today

Illustrates the potential in the pharmaceutical market and gives an overview of the technology involved

Investigates at the impact of Analytical CRM on the industry, using primary research to show the industry’s objectives and barriers to implementation

Presents a case study of Roche’s Xenical (orlistat) and includes an examination of five vendors in this market

Report Highlights
Pharmaceutical companies planning to deploy Analytical CRM technology should, prior to heavy investment, examine its use in verticals with similar characteristics.

Pharmaceutical companies will continue to invest in Analytical and Operational CRM. However, weaknesses in infrastructure and channels must be addressed if returns on ACRM are to be maximized over the longer term.

Reasons to Purchase
Understand the current and prospective opportunities to use Analytical CRM technologies in optimizing marketing strategies

Learn more about the leading Analytical CRM vendors and the products and services they offer the pharmaceutical industry

Develop strategies for the introduction and development of Analytical CRM technologies in your company

Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACTION POINTS 6

Scope of the report 6

Two key things you need to know about Analytical CRM 6

Pharmaceutical companies planning to deploy Analytical CRM technology should, prior to heavy investment, examine its use in verticals with similar characteristics 7

Pharmaceutical companies will continue to invest in Analytical and Operational CRM. However, weaknesses in infrastructure and channels must be addressed if returns on ACRM are to be maximized over the longer term 7

ANALYTICAL CRM 9

Introduction 9

Market overview 9

What is Analytical CRM? 9

The Analytical CRM process 10

Benefits across verticals 11

ACRM in the retail industry 13

Factors driving the adoption of ACRM 14

Democratization of data 14

Smarter, easier tools 14

Negative reasons 14

Technology overview 14

Data quality 16

The issue with data quality 16

The data quality process 17

Data storage and management 18

Company-wide data warehouses 19

Data marts 19

Operational data stores 19

Business Intelligence and Decision Support 20

Data integration and ETL 20

Query & reporting 21

Online analytical processing 21

Data mining 21

Data visualization 22

ACRM Vendors 23

E.piphany 23

Microsoft 24

Oracle 24

SAS 25

Siebel 26

Analytical CRM in Healthcare 27

The pharmaceutical industry’s CRM objectives 27

Implementation rates in the pharmaceutical industry 28

Key barriers to implementation 30

Customer data management and cross-functional integration 32

CRM and the physician 34

CRM and the patient 35

Case study: Roche uses analytics in leveraging the potential of CRM 36

THE FUTURE DECODED 39

Access for smaller companies 39

Real-time analytics 40

APPENDIX 41

List of figures 41

Research methodology 41

How to contact experts in your industry 43





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