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Deliver Targeted Offers

Online retailers make millions of product recommendations each year. Typically, these recommendations are based on prior purchases, adjacent products, cookie data, or marketing programs. The more closely aligned a recommendation is to a consumer's needs and preferences, the more likely they are to act on it. But with more data being generated in social networks and mobile communications, delivering a precise recommendation is increasingly difficult.

Traditional recommendation engines use a limited range of data types and flow rates to calculate purchase-likelihood well ahead of the next customer interaction. They weren't designed to take into consideration previous clicks or even the hovering of a mouse just milliseconds before. That kind of activity indicates a level of interest that's too fleeting for most to capture – though the ability to deliver an offer in the moment can mean tremendous revenue potential for the retailer. For example, the online shopper who is deliberating about shoes to go with a select outfit already in the shopping cart – investigating sizes, colors, and reviews – but who ultimately skips over it might then receive an "impromptu" promotion code for a percentage off or free shipping for a certain purchase size, or even a discount off of all shoe purchases.

VoltDB is changing the game for recommendation applications. There is no limit to how many different kinds of data you can process, how fast it's arriving, or how quickly you need to act on it. You can calculate consumer value for every product you sell in real time. You can correlate offers from partner sites to yours to create multi-dimensional offers with greater impact and profitability. You can build any recommendation application you can imagine with 100 percent data accuracy and transaction reliability and no limits to scaling or throughput.

That's what's possible with VoltDB. What will you build?

Detect Customer Attrition

Banks, telecommunications companies, insurance firms, and retailers all battle customer attrition – sometimes at a rate as high as two percent per month. With customer acquisition costs rocketing to new heights, the need to retain existing customers is more important than ever. Anticipating when a customer is at risk for attrition, and proactively intervening based on an understanding of what is driving their behavior is often the difference between profit and loss in the volatile services sector.

VoltDB makes this vision a reality. There is no limit to how much data you can process, how fast it's arriving, or how quickly you need to act on it. You can calculate the value of the potential loss of a specific customer in real time and distribute business efforts and resources efficiently. You can create dashboards that segment the customer base by attrition risk, leading indicators, and available actions. You can build any predictive application you can imagine with 100 percent data accuracy and transaction reliability and no limits to scaling or throughput.

That's what's possible with VoltDB. What will you build?

Maximize Passenger Revenue

With over two million passengers each day in the U.S. alone, and dozens of different fares for a single flight, maximizing the revenue from each seat is a constant challenge in the airline industry. Think about it – the fare on a round-trip flight from New York to Los Angeles could range from $300 to $2,000 – making the balancing act of seat revenue to break-even extremely difficult. Sell too many seats at the low end and there's no room for higher-paying passengers. Offer too many seats at higher fares and passengers book on a different carrier.

The solution to this dilemma is automated real-time pricing. While it sounds obvious, so far, nobody has actually gotten it right, and it remains a problem that costs airlines customer loyalty and billions of dollars in revenue every day.

Unfortunately, achieving real-time pricing and optimizing passenger revenue isn't as simple as allocating seats and fares. There are dozens of other variables to consider, including weather forecasts, connections, fuel costs, local advertising costs, market share, social networks, competitive issues, and available aircraft and crews. And it all comes from disparate data sources, in different formats, and at changing velocities.

VoltDB tackles it all in real time. You can absorb, analyze, and make decisions on more data than you can imagine. You can generate fares for a single passenger by correlating their flight history and revenue contribution to a long-term individual forecast. You can simulate price changes against the actual data from thousands of prior loads. You can build any revenue-yield application you can imagine with 100 percent data accuracy and transaction reliability and no limits to scaling or throughput.

That's what's possible with VoltDB. What will you build?

Create a State-of-the-Art Social Network

Outside the well-publicized successes of several large social networks, smaller, special-purpose networks are being built every day – including a growing number with several million users. Traditional databases were able to store and retrieve social information up to a point. But with the volume of information, the number of users, and the expectation of marketers looking to monetize social data, they are at the breaking point.

If any of the major social networks were being built today, they would be architected to accommodate an unrelenting flow of data with wide swings in velocity, which could provide the real-time insights that currently seem so hard to get. They would also be built to give users greater flexibility in how information is displayed and provide user-level insights into what's happening in their network.

Want to build a social network that's easier to analyze and monetize? VoltDB just friended you. There is no limit to how many different kinds of data you can process, how fast it's arriving, or how quickly you need to act on it. You can correlate photo tagging, status posting, likes, and social graph positions at any moment in time or at any time in the future. You can let users create customized pages based on topics, brands, friend groupings, or even days of the week. You can build any social network application you can imagine with 100 percent data accuracy and transaction reliability and no limits to scaling or throughput.

That's what's possible with VoltDB. What will you build?