Global awards
The Advocate
Center Parcs put customers first to reinvigorate demand.
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The Advocate recognizes the company that has overcome a significant challenge by embracing a customer-first approach to digital transformation and elevating their customer experience to new heights with Adobe Experience Cloud solutions.
The challenge:
As a leading short-break holiday company in the UK, Center Parcs found their business suddenly stifled by the stay-at-home orders brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Center Parcs knew the only way to entice customers back to their rentals was by ensuring a safe, seamless, and personalized experience from booking to checkout.
The solution:
Center Parcs focused on customer wellbeing and personalization in their approach to innovate, using Adobe technology to execute on these priorities. They used Adobe Target, Adobe Analytics, Adobe Campaign, and Adobe Experience Manager to increase their speed to market and create highly personalized guest journeys. Center Parcs has seen a £1.6m increase in revenue YOY from these initiatives.
The experience:
Since implementing Adobe Experience Cloud solutions, Center Parcs has transformed and scaled the way they manage bookings and communicate with guests. Whole parties can now view and add a shared itinerary, and Center Parcs can communicate with all party members personally. Center Parcs also pushed boundaries with the COVID-19 requirements throughout this period, turning communications around within hours of every government announcement to update guests and let them know how to change or cancel bookings. The customer now sees a company that puts their safety first and provides a richer, more responsive digital experience.
The Ambassador
Jessica Kao’s expertise led to a successful digital transformation for F5.
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The Ambassador recognizes the individual who has gone above and beyond to share their
expertise and thought leadership, while demonstrating a willingness to help their peers
succeed in their digital transformation and customer experience management initiatives
with Adobe Experience Cloud solutions.
The challenge:
Six-time Adobe Marketo Engage Champion, 2018 Adobe Marketo Engage
Champion of the Year, and Adobe Experience Maker 50 Marketer, Jessica
Kao is the senior director of demand operations at F5 — an application
specializing in delivery networking and security. Although F5 was
dedicated to helping customers optimally manage applications that
helped their businesses run better, the company itself wanted to make
improvements to their own customer journey and internal processes.
The solution:
Before adopting Experience Cloud, F5 offered a “one size fits all” customer
experience. With the help of Adobe Marketo Engage, Kao was able to
bring clearer visibility into the behavior and needs of site visitors, thus
allowing more targeted segmentation and more relevant, personalized
messaging at scale. Adobe Analytics also provided a real-time,
comprehensive view of potential leads in the pipeline, so F5 knew where
to spend marketing dollars most effectively.
The experience:
With Jessica leading the mission, F5 found a way to collect data on
customer behaviors and use it to create highly personalized customer
experiences — not just on their website, but across multiple touchpoints.
Kao leaned on Adobe Experience Cloud to help implement new data
marketing tools and create a smoother, more actionable view of the
customer journey — ultimately helping increase MQLs from key accounts
by 30 percent.
The Analyzer
RS Components discovered untapped internal opportunities to optimize their path forward.
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The Analyzer recognizes the company that has used data-driven decision making to
create optimized customer journeys and drive significant business impact based on using
real-time insights from Adobe Experience Cloud analytics solutions.
The challenge:
RS Components, an electronics and maintenance product distribution
company for industrial customers and suppliers, was struggling with a
one-size-fits all approach and disconnected data sources — obstacles that
made it nearly impossible to smoothly run a marketing program or
measure performance.
The solution:
With Adobe Target, Audience Manager, and Adobe Analytics, RS
Components tapped into real-time customer insights to create highly
personalized customer experiences. Previously disorganized data came
together with these new systems and insights, allowing them to clearly
identify existing opportunities for optimization — including a plan for
delivering custom content that followed real-time customer behavior.
Since using Adobe Experience Cloud to implement these new programs,
RS Components has seen more than a 32 percent growth in revenue YoY
and a 64 percent increase in revenue per unique visitor.
The experience:
RS Components refocused resources and attention onto the pain points of
their customer journey, using Adobe technology to organize and track the
data that would inform them in building out new strategies. By digging
into existing opportunities within their business that had been buried by
bad process and a lackluster tech stack, RS Components gained a deeper
understanding of both their customers and their business model as they
innovated new ways forward.
The Architect
Bose built a tech stack that took them to a top tier digital marketing presence.
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The Architect recognizes the company that has unified their content and marketing strategy to
streamline the digital customer journey. They deliver personalized, relevant content to the
right audience at the right time, achieving measurable impact on business results with the
help of Adobe Experience Cloud solutions.
The challenge:
Bose is a leader in the speaker and audio space, but when it came to
digital marketing, they were struggling to find their footing. Bose needed
to curate a sophisticated tech stack that could support their new
marketing priorities — specifically, customer journey development,
marketing channel integration, and identity resolution.
The solution:
Bose turned to Adobe Experience Cloud because it offered a fully
integrated suite of the tech solutions and tools they needed, all in one
place. They used Adobe Audience Manager to provide seamless identity
resolution and solve one of their biggest concerns — surfacing individual
customers across devices. Adobe Analytics allowed them to identify
customers in the awareness phase and guide them over to the research
and purchase phase of the journey, and Adobe Campaign helped them
sculpt personalized experiences that created more recurring website visits.
The experience:
Using Adobe technology alongside Bose-built capabilities was critical to
Bose’s digital marketing makeover. Adobe Experience Cloud paired tightly
with their data lake — the main centerpiece for their data strategy. With
this integration, they were able to look further into their customer
journeys and focus on each individual customer with more accuracy,
allowing them to better segment and tailor personalized experiences that
truly met their customers’ needs at scale. Bose realized $4.4M in
incremental revenue from traffic to the home page alone by delivering
the right experience at just the right time.
The Changemaker
American Red Cross creates a unified platform that delivers life-saving digital experiences.
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The Changemaker recognizes the company or individual that has innovated to engage
customers and create experiences through Adobe Experience Cloud solutions that drive
quantifiable impact promoting social or environmental good.
The challenge:
The American Red Cross (ARC) is a nonprofit humanitarian organization
that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief, and disaster
preparedness education in the United States. ARC wanted to address the
critical need for blood donation In the United States, which meant
migrating redcross.org and redcrossblood.org onto one platform to make
it easier for potential donors to sign up and save lives.
The solution:
Using Adobe Analytics and Adobe Target, ARC used real-time data to
ensure that users understood the need for blood donation and could
make appointments to donate without migrating between platforms.
They also better positioned themselves for organizational growth and
innovation by using Adobe technology to build a unified and personalized
customer experience platform. This resulted in a 16 percent increase in
testing and personalization output, a 9.6 percent increase in site content
tickets, and a 100 percent increase in content creators, reflecting a
democratization of content authoring across the organization.
The experience:
ARC’s goal was to make their technology and processes as efficient as
possible, so they could focus on their mission of being good stewards of
the donations entrusted to them. Adobe Experience Cloud allowed ARC to
seamlessly build the unified platform that provided this efficiency, with
real-time data and analytics enabling more personally relevant
experiences for those looking to get or give help. ARC also maximized
their investment in Adobe technology by applying the learnings and
innovations from their successful web experiences to direct mail, email,
text, search, and other channels.
The Closer
NWEA moved to the head of the class with personalized campaigns.
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The Closer recognizes the company that has built a world-class B2B revenue engine through
the power of Adobe Experience Cloud solutions, driving alignment between sales and
marketing that results in significant lift in pipeline conversion, bookings, and revenue growth.
The challenge:
NWEA is a research-based, not-for-profit education technology
organization that supports students and educators worldwide. Growth
was their goal — but not only was the marketing team struggling to track
and understand which efforts were converting, they were also
hemorrhaging resources to manually keep tabs on their enormous library
of content, numerous events, and other engagement channels.
The solution:
NWEA used Adobe Marketo Engage to build a scalable and flexible
marketing automation platform. It enabled multi-interaction tracking and
other performance metrics that weren’t native to other marketing
solutions. Since the implementation, NWEA saw a 200 percent
improvement in engaged-to-closed rate and a 47 percent improvement in
marketing qualified lead to sales accepted opportunities, as well as 153
percent revenue growth and a 300 percent increase in Average Deal Size
— all in less than one year.
The experience:
Adobe Marketo Engage gave NWEA’s demand generation strategy quick,
substantial success. They engaged, nurtured, and converted buyers
through content aligned with each customer’s buying process. This
ensured a personalized experience across all channels and allowed NWEA
to track and measure results in actionable, scalable ways. NWEA
customers had a more relevant, cohesive experience throughout their
entire journey, and the marketing team earned their seat at the company’s
leadership table.
The Illuminator
The US Census Bureau’s transformation to digital came at just the right time.
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This award recognizes the company, individual, or team that has shown great resiliency, rising
above unprecedented circumstances, and finding ways to turn challenging situations into inspiring
and exceptional customer experiences with the help of Adobe Experience Cloud solutions.
The challenge:
The US Census Bureau is the nation’s leading provider of quality data
about the American people and economy. Coinciding almost exactly with
the start of the 2020 census, the pandemic presented the bureau with a
challenging backdrop for migrating from traditional survey collection
methods to the digitized solution they had been planning to unveil.
The solution:
The US Census Bureau used Adobe Experience Cloud to implement a full
digital transformation. Adobe Analytics harnessed site visitor data. Adobe
Experience Manager provided the scalable content management system.
And Adobe Target optimized ads. Since mobile app users accounted for
80 percent of traffic, the Bureau used Adobe Experience Manager to
create a web experience for mobile visitors. Because of their new digital
efforts, the US Census Bureau reached a record of surveying more than 67
percent of US households online and saved more than $55 million,
reflecting a remarkable transformation amid international crisis.
The experience:
With Adobe technology, the US Census Bureau innovated strategies for
the 2020 census and boldly faced a national crisis with confidence. Not
only did they build a comprehensive digital infrastructure from the ground
up, but they significantly lowered costs by improving internal operations
and used new data insights to optimize customer experiences.
The Magnifier
Sky charters a mission to scale personalization and win back more customers.
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The Magnifier recognizes the company that has made use of multiple Adobe customer
experience management solutions to deliver the most exceptional customer experiences
and drive measurable business impact.
The challenge:
As Europe’s leading direct-to-consumer media and entertainment
company, Sky is singularly focused on delivering best-in-class customer
experiences. In 2019, they embarked on a 3-year strategic journey to
transform their marketing approach from chaotic data models and
disconnected communications into a smoothly automated, scalable
program led by highly personalized customer experiences.
The solution:
Adobe technology helped Sky develop and manage a clear, customercentric
strategy that connected all their core targeted marketing channels
and enable automated campaigns. Using Adobe Analytics, they integrated
data models that informed targeting and engagement strategies. And with
Adobe Campaign they scaled 1:1 customer experiences across the most
relevant channels. They also implemented Adobe Workfront for resource
management and issue resolution tracking. Between 2019 and 2020 alone,
Sky achieved £460K in operating efficiency — targeting a further 10
percent in 2021.
The experience:
Before using Adobe Experience Cloud, Sky was producing thousands of
non-personalized campaigns that drove very little engagement. Now,
more than two years into their digital transformation, the company is
scaling insight-driven 1:1 customer experiences across multiple channels,
and continuously testing data to further personalize communications and
improve engagement — which has resulted in a click-through rate three
times higher than the average for all campaigns.
The Mastermind
Topps Tiles helped their customers virtually visualize their in-home upgrades.
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The Mastermind recognizes the company that has delivered a unified commerce experience
across B2B and B2C channels — spanning online and physical stores, multiple warehouses, drop
shippers, marketplaces, partners, and vendors — to enable customers to buy and fulfill anytime,
anywhere with Adobe Experience Cloud solutions.
The challenge:
Topps Tiles is the UK’s largest tile specialist with over 320 retail locations.
Topps had a strong online presence but realized that their existing
platform had very limited support and development capabilities.
Additionally, in order to keep pace with necessary growth and
development, they knew they needed to unify their retail and digital
experiences — ultimately creating a more seamless and enjoyable
experience for customers at every touchpoint.
The solution:
The Topps Tiles team wanted the best features of “off-the-shelf” digital
retail, but also the customization that only a platform free of constraints
could offer. Adobe Experience Cloud solutions like Adobe Commerce
offered that and more along with the headless capability that they
needed. Having decoupled front and back ends meant design teams could
easily experiment and adapt visuals, and it simplified the integration of
their retail and online stores. Since relaunching on Adobe Commerce,
online sales have tripled, and B2B website visits have increased 1,000
percent.
The experience:
The move to Adobe Commerce allowed the Topps Tiles team to achieve
their goals and then move on toward even better ways to serve their
customers. With frictionless customer journeys now the norm, they’ve
been freed up to add features like showing retail stock availability online
and offering buy-online-pick-up-in-store convenience. And the B2B trade
loyalty program they implemented has pushed customer satisfaction
levels over 80 percent.
The Maverick
Doorstep Market created a multi-vendor, multi-site ecommerce experience for foodies.
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The Maverick recognizes the company or individual pushing the boundaries of innovation in
customer experience, marketing, advertising, or commerce through bold, out-of-the box
thinking and ground-breaking use of Adobe Experience Cloud solutions.
The challenge:
Doorstep Market is a multi-vendor, multi-site ecommerce marketplace
curating products from small businesses in distinct geographic regions
across the US. It was conceived and created to connect readers of Edible
— a publication for fans of artisan food and drink — with high quality,
locally-sourced products from key regions in the US. When the pandemic
started crippling these small independent makers, Doorstep Market’s
ecommerce mission became urgent.
The solution:
Guided by a very specific set of requirements, Doorstep quickly zeroed in
on the flexibility and scalability of Adobe solutions. Adobe Experience
Cloud and Adobe Commerce helped them build and launch their
marketplace in less than four months, and has made the onboarding of
over 500 makers offering over 2,700 products simple and seamless.
The experience:
Now, after just six months, Doorstep has achieved a lot with very little.
Vendor signups are growing rapidly — projected to hit 3,000 by the end of
2022, with over 10,000 curated products eventually available for sale. With
a solid digital foundation in place, they’re primed for growth at any speed
and scale — which is good since they’re already envisioning Doorstep
Markets in Bangkok, South Asia, London, and Tokyo.
The Orchestrator
Workday scaled omnichannel personalization for full-funnel, always-on campaigns.
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The Orchestrator recognizes the company that has aligned customer journeys across
multiple channels, geographies, or platforms to deliver the most cohesive customer
experience through an innovative advertising campaign, marketing campaign, or
commerce initiative using Adobe Experience Cloud solutions.
The challenge:
Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud apps for finance and
human resources. But they recognized that siloed data across the
organization was making it difficult for them to unify customer data and
maximize their marketing efforts — they needed a way to connect brand
experiences with their demand strategies and strengthen their ability to
optimize.
The solution:
Wanting to break down data silos and accelerate pipeline growth,
Workday turned to Adobe Experience Cloud’s ecosystem of connected
tools. They started by building out a repository of audiences with their
data management platform — enabling it to collect data from known and
anonymous touchpoints. Workday then orchestrated messaging across
various channels using Adobe Target, Adobe Advertising, and Adobe
Marketo Engage, helping them achieve 74 percent reach and delivering
double-digit lift in MQL accounts acquired.
The experience:
Now Workday is ready and able to connect with customers and provide
them with the solutions they need to successfully manage disruption and
change. Adobe Experience Cloud products, previously siloed are now
unified and used to optimize experiences. Their customers are now
surrounded by omnichannel marketing offering personalized content and
experiences that drive growth in all stages of the buyer’s journey.
The Transformer
Fiserv revamped the commerce and payments experience with always-on marketing.
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The Transformer recognizes the company that has driven innovation across people,
processes, and technology to achieve game-changing digital transformation and significant
improvements in business results by implementing Adobe Experience Cloud solutions.
The challenge:
Fiserv is a global leader in payments and fintech for international issuer
processing, global merchant acquiring, and US account processing. They
saw that in order to serve their many different audiences and manage
multiple platforms without increasing costs they needed something
different. In particular, a scalable, collaborative, and agile cloud solution
that could handle the scope of their business securely and reliably.
The solution:
Fiserv saw that a migration to Adobe Experience Manager would provide
the tools they needed to successfully achieve their goals in over 100
different countries. Leveraging tools like Adobe Marketo Engage and
Adobe Analytics, they delivered waves of digital nurture tracks, launched a
top-ranked education portal, and created a Merchant Services Portal for
one-stop shopping. They consolidated over 500 sites and properties down
to 200 and increased potential sales growth by 200 percent.
The experience:
Today, Fiserv has drastically improved the customer experience across a
variety of sites and experiences. Thanks to Adobe Experience Cloud,
updates across Fiserv’s many sites happen 37 percent faster. Digital project
bandwidth has increased, as has the ability to deliver updates and
changes quickly, allowing teams to tackle projects faster and more
efficiently. Ultimately Fiserv is stronger, faster, and leaner than ever as they
strive to create innovative digital experience for their marketplace users.
Americas awards
The Experience Maker Executive of the Year
Matt Harker of Walgreens Boots Alliance prescribed a transformational personalization strategy.
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The Experience Maker Executive of the Year recognizes a visionary leader who has
driven digital transformation across their organization and delivered advances in
customer experience to achieve significant business impact with the help of
Adobe Experience Cloud solutions.
The challenge:
Matt Harker is vice president of global marketing strategy and
transformation at Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), a leader in
pharmacy, well-being and beauty. WBA required a modern, unified
experience platform that would capitalize on their most potent asset
— their massive customer base and first party data — to derive
behavioral insights and deliver omnichannel, personalized experiences
and offers in real time.
The solution:
Matt led an effort for mass omnichannel personalization, including a
reimagined customer loyalty platform, myWalgreens, featuring
personalized health experiences, rewards, and offers. WBA used Adobe
Analytics to identify customer behavior, Adobe Experience Manager to
create continuity across touchpoints, Adobe Target to ensure relevance for
each customer, and Adobe Audience Manager to identify new audiences
and segments. By combining all data sources into a singular, actionable
view through Adobe Experience Platform, marketing teams created
millions of individually relevant journeys for customers, including essential
COVID vaccine experiences, all the while protecting customer privacy and
honoring preferences.
The experience:
With the new platform and insights, Matt has helped WBA brands grow
love, loyalty, membership, engagement, and customer lifetime value.
myWalgreens membership grew more than 41 percent during the WBA
second quarter (vs. prior quarter) with commensurate growth in customer
net promoter score of greater than 40 percent versus the previous
customer loyalty program.
The Experience Maker Team of the Year
Bose helped customers try on audio sunglasses from home through augmented reality.
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The Experience Maker Team of the Year recognizes the team or cross-functional team that has
worked collaboratively to overcome organizational obstacles and deliver exceptional customer
experiences and business impact leveraging innovative approaches to execute their marketing,
commerce, or advertising strategies with the help of Adobe Experience Cloud solutions.
The challenge:
Bose is an American manufacturing company focusing on the design
and sale of consumer audio and commercial sound systems. With over
70 years of experience, and with digital commerce sharply rising, they
saw a need to provide customers with in-store experiences virtually
— especially to support of the launch of their new Frames audio
sunglasses. Unfortunately, existing augmented reality offerings couldn’t
deliver on their expectations, so they needed to build their own
solution from the ground up.
The solution:
Making use of nearly every tool in Adobe Experience Cloud, Bose built,
tested, analyzed, launched, and scaled an augmented reality, virtual-tryon
experience for their Frames audio sunglasses. And the results were
huge. Of all Bose.com visitors, 11 percent engaged with the new virtual
experience — a 55 percent increase over a pseudo-AR solution provided
by an external vendor. More importantly, customers that virtually tried on
products with Bose’s new tool had a 52 percent higher conversion rate
than those customers who didn’t.
The experience:
With the flexibility of Adobe Experience Cloud, Bose is now able to
connect with third-party tools, like live web AR, which streamlines and
simplifies the development and rollout process. And to correct errors and
smooth friction points, Bose now uses Adobe Analytics to manage
cookieless tracking across the Bose.com and reseller virtual-try-on
experiences. The Frames experience was a massive, cross-functional
undertaking, requiring collaboration and communication across multiple
unrelated divisions — but the experience they created speaks for itself.
The Experience Maker of the Year
Enrique Negrete of Coca-Cola brings a refreshing new angle to D2C ecommerce.
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The Experience Maker of the Year recognizes the individual who has applied their
knowledge of best practices and expertise in Adobe marketing, advertising, or commerce
solutions to create exceptional customer experiences and deliver significant business
impact for their team and company.
The challenge:
Enrique is the senior director of direct-to-consumer services in Latin
America for Coca-Cola — a leading consumer packaged goods brand that
supplies beverages to markets around the world. With 2020 stay-at-home
orders and lockdown restrictions in place throughout Mexico, having an
effective and seamless commerce solution became even more critical,
especially in the direct-to-consumer space.
The solution:
Coca-Cola En Tu Hogar, (CCETH) is a direct-to-consumer (D2C) purchasing
option for consumers. CCETH was not digital, relying on call center orders
for local delivery and walk-up orders. Data for the program was
disorganized and not effectively used in marketing strategies. Enrique
launched the digital version of the program through Adobe Commerce
using Adobe Experience Platform. Since August 2020, there’s been a 45
percent increase in accounts created compared to prior accounts that year,
and average order value has increased by 18%.
The experience:
CCETH, now sitting on a flexible and scalable digital platform, offers key
conveniences not featured before such as subscriptions, delivery
estimates, and referral programs. Overall website platform traffic has
grown triple digits YOY, registering 6 million sessions in the past year.
And most importantly, increasing the delivery of safe drinking water for
many more households that were otherwise isolated in lockdown
conditions through much of 2020.
APAC awards
The Experience Maker Executive of the Year
Thiagaraja Manikandan of Olam has overseen a bumper crop of ecommerce success.
The Experience Maker Executive of the Year recognizes a visionary leader who has
driven digital transformation across their organization and delivered advances in
customer experience to achieve significant business impact with the help of
Adobe Experience Cloud solutions.
The challenge:
Thiagaraja Manikandan (Mani) is president and global CIO of Olam, an
agricultural food trading company with a presence in more than 80
countries. Olam is re-imagining global agriculture and food systems,
driving transformation in an ethical and sustainable way. Mani’s recent
initiative was to take Olam from a brick-and-mortar model to B2C and
B2B ecommerce.
The solution:
Wanting to expand its operations, Mani saw that Olam didn’t have a
centralized CMS, stretching his IT team to capacity. He moved their CMS
to Adobe Experience Manager and used Adobe Analytics and Adobe
Target to understand customer usage, and Adobe Commerce for
e-commerce expansion. Mani’s vision for better content management and
e-commerce expansion is being realized. Starting with a site dedicated to
coffee, then nuts, grains, and more, Olam has seen massive growth in
ecommerce customers leading to a 350 percent increase in sales in three
years.
The experience:
Mani has guided Olam from brick-and-mortar to a truly diversified B2C
and B2B ecommerce business. Olam has seen growth in customers per
month, daily visits, total orders all while reducing bounce rates. Their B2B
experience is easy, facilitating sales and fulfillment for businesses of all
sizes without taxing his sales managers. Mani has driven a true
transformation in the customer and farmer experience with Olam.
The Experience Maker Team of the Year
Tabcorp doubles down on digital transformation to connect with customers in real time.
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The Experience Maker Team of the Year recognizes the team or cross-functional team that has
worked collaboratively to overcome organizational obstacles and deliver exceptional customer
experiences and business impact leveraging innovative approaches to execute their marketing,
commerce, or advertising strategies with the help of Adobe Experience Cloud solutions.
The challenge:
Tabcorp is a market-leading gambling and entertainment company.
They create personalized digital wagering experiences at over 4,000
venues across Australia. But a series of data and marketing gaps left
them without insight about customer activity for up to two days after
the close of betting activities. For a company trying to merge the
physical and digital experience, they needed a technical solution that
would allow them to connect with customers in real time.
The solution:
Because Tabcorp wanted a solution that could tend to their immediate
challenges and grow with them, they turned to Adobe Experience Cloud.
It helped them close the gap between in-venue retail and digital customer
experiences and decrease onboarding times from up to three weeks, to
just 48 hours. They’ve seen 15 percent overall digital customer growth
year over year with more than 75 percent customer retention. For Tabcorp,
data and marketing gaps are a thing of the past.
The experience:
Today, Tabcorp is equipped with the technology and processes that allow
them to create the unified physical and digital experiences they aimed to
deliver. With Adobe Experience Cloud as a foundation, customer data is
now gathered and put to use in real time. Live data collected in-venue is
now turned into meaningful, personalized digital experiences that drive
increased interaction and customer satisfaction. Where once there were
siloes now sit unified teams and data streams.
The Experience Maker of the Year
Ingrid Ferreira of AMP brings a wealth of data-led discipline to optimization and personalization.
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The Experience Maker of the Year recognizes the individual who has applied their
knowledge of best practices and expertise in Adobe marketing, advertising, or commerce
solutions to create exceptional customer experiences and deliver significant business
impact for their team and company.
The challenge:
Ingrid is the senior manager of digital and analytics and search for AMP
Australia, a wealth management company with a growing retail banking
business. In 2020, Ingrid was appointed to lead the digital analytics, onsite
optimization, and personalization program. Using Adobe Analytics, Adobe
Target, and Adobe Experience Manager, she advocated for data-led
decision making to improve the way people, processes, and platforms
work in service of its customers.
The solution:
Ingrid helped scale the digital analytics and conversion rate optimization
programs in many ways. For example, she worked across teams to
optimize digital components, layout, messaging, and user flow for better
engagement and increased conversion. Additionally, she led the building
of governance and process documentation around the program to ensure
focus on quality and effective customer experiences.
The experience:
Ingrid’s culture of data-led decision making has resulted in stakeholders
consuming more digital data than ever and keeping digital analytics
and conversion rate optimization top of mind though all initiatives. This
has contributed to exceeding several digital acquisition KPIs for AMP. For
instance, home loan leads by 14 percent, lost superannuation searches
by 14 percent, savings account application completes by 10 percent, and
Super application completes by 15 percent.
EMEA awards
The Experience Maker Executive of the Year
Gemma Sherrington of Save the Children UK brought relief to old donation processes.
The Experience Maker Executive of the Year recognizes a visionary leader who has
driven digital transformation across their organization and delivered advances in
customer experience to achieve significant business impact with the help of
Adobe Experience Cloud solutions.
The challenge:
Gemma Sherrington is the CMO and executive director of fundraising
and marketing at Save The Children UK, an organization that works in
over 100 countries to help every child reach their full potential. Gemma
saw the need to make the donation functions on the website more
customer centric — improve the donation pods so that donators found
it easy and appealing to donate and do so more regularly.
The solution:
Gemma had a 3-year strategy to improve the donation experience and
the lifetime value of supporters. With the help of Adobe Experience
Manager, Gemma’s team was positioned to make web publishing changes.
They used Adobe Analytics and Adobe Target to get an understanding of
what was working and testing the donation experience. YoY revenue-perview
increased by more than 83 percent, and the users signing up to
become monthly donors increased by more than 58 percent.
The experience:
Today, Gemma has set up the technology and processes so that in-house
developers can quickly optimize the digital marketing experience. Adobe
Experience Cloud products helped her decentralize content production
and workflow capability to increase the speed to market of changes that
would lead to easier and more efficient donations. This is a huge benefit
for Save the Children as it lets them rapidly raise funds in an emergency
humanitarian crisis such as an earthquake.
The Experience Maker Team of the Year
MANN+HUMMEL rolled out a fast and efficient white-label CMS for their B2B business.
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The Experience Maker Team of the Year recognizes the team or cross-functional team that has
worked collaboratively to overcome organizational obstacles and deliver exceptional customer
experiences and business impact leveraging innovative approaches to execute their marketing,
commerce, or advertising strategies with the help of Adobe Experience Cloud solutions.
The challenge:
MANN+HUMMEL is a global expert in filtration technology, delivering
its technology to leading global original equipment manufacturers and
various aftermarket customers. But their various digital touchpoints
were highly fragmented across more than 100 websites, 300 domains,
and 15 unique portals across the globe. They realized that they needed
a standardized, consolidated, and consumer-friendly digital experience.
Existing structures made even small website changes costly and time
consuming.
The solution:
MANN+HUMMEL decided they needed to streamline and focus on the
needs of their customers. To do this, they built a new digital ecosystem
with Adobe Experience Cloud. This allowed them to consolidate 100
individual websites into seven large portals with a white-label concept
that offers brand individuality with a high degree of standardization.
Thanks to their website’s new contact form alone, customer enquiries
went up 300 percent per month — at a cost savings of 90 percent.
The experience:
MANN+HUMMEL’s new customer-oriented digital experience provides
the company with lean and uniform process efficiencies across all
organizations. Development, production, and site maintenance times are
down, and customer interactions are more effortless and impactful than
ever. Adobe Experience Cloud products have turned once rigid and static
processes into flexible and collaborative opportunities to understand
customer needs and deliver in record time.
The Experience Maker of the Year
Klaus Fiedel of Investitionsbank Berlin used digital forms to disburse emergency funds.
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The Experience Maker of the Year recognizes the individual who has applied their
knowledge of best practices and expertise in Adobe marketing, advertising, or commerce
solutions to create exceptional customer experiences and deliver significant business
impact for their team and company.
The challenge:
Klaus Fiedel is head of IT at the Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB), the
development bank for the Federal State of Berlin. As the pandemic of
2020 grew, many Berliners’ livelihoods were suddenly threatened.
Germany’s government set up an emergency aid program and IBB was
commissioned to get financial aid to thousands of eligible citizens. Klaus
and his IT team had less than a week to implement this project.
The solution:
While many of IBB’s systems are digital, some processes were still manual.
Klaus looked at this aid project, prioritized tasks, and scoped the needs.
He implemented Adobe Experience Manager Forms because of its open
platform, comprehensive feature set, and its ability to implement new
requirements at scale. In the past, IT was needed to create and publish
forms. Today, this is done independently by a form author and the
specialist department.
The experience:
Because of the financial state of emergency, IBB found itself in a new
field of business, disbursing emergency funds in addition to their typical
focus on funding volumes. Using Experience Manager Forms, IBB was
able to implement the emergency aid application in just five days and
immediately after going live, up to 6K applications per hour were
processed and paid out. Klaus’s new form has helped over 650,000
Berliners receive financial relief.
Japan awards
The Experience Maker Executive of the Year
Hiroko Murata of KDDI CORPORATION dials up personalization to deliver great experiences.
The Experience Maker Executive of the Year recognizes a visionary leader who has
driven digital transformation across their organization and delivered advances in
customer experience to achieve significant business impact with the help of
Adobe Experience Cloud solutions.
The challenge:
Hiroko Murata is a manager in the DX design division at KDDI
CORPORATION, a large telecommunications company in Japan that
integrates telecommunications with life design services such as
commerce, finance, entertainment, and education to make users’ lives
more convenient. In an attempt to better personalize their customers’
experience and to provide customer success, Hiroko integrated online
and offline behavior data with customer attribute information. The
problem was, with the technology her team was using, it required a
lot of manual work and left less time to work on KDDI’s trademark
strategic design.
The solution:
With the introduction of Adobe Campaign as the foundation for marketing
automation, Hiroko and her team reduce the time invested into gathering
insights while increasing investments that lead to improved customer
satisfaction. This led to a 6x increase in conversion. The intuitive operation
of Adobe Campaign has made it easy to train in-house users, so
employees could use it effectively after relatively few hours of training.
This has pointed to the use of Adobe Campaign across a wide range of
service departments.
The experience:
Hiroko and her team efficiently gather customer attribution data,
behavioral data, and data from other sources such as customer service
insight from their 2000+ stores. Now rather than managing manual
processes, campaign management automation has cut manual input by
30% and given she and her team more time to focus on life design
services, personalizing each customer’s experience. For KDDI
CORPORATION, which aims to integrate communication and life design
services, they value the pursuit of ideal customer experience and customer
success, linking ideas and businesses as closely as possible.
The Experience Maker Team of the Year
Casio consolidated and simplified their online digital experiences in less than a year.
The Experience Maker Team of the Year recognizes the team or cross-functional team that has
worked collaboratively to overcome organizational obstacles and deliver exceptional customer
experiences and business impact leveraging innovative approaches to execute their marketing,
commerce, or advertising strategies with the help of Adobe Experience Cloud solutions.
The challenge:
CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD. is a global electronics maker and retailer
best known for their rugged and stylish G-Shock line of products. Many
of Casio’s sales come through distributors, which made collecting
customer data difficult. Plus, their corporate, brand, and ecommerce
sites were all separate and scattered. With the additional challenges
brought on by the pandemic, it became clear that they needed a
consolidated and customer-centric digital experience — fast.
The solution:
After a complete redesign and overhaul, Casio’s corporate and brand sites
were launched in March 2021 — just 10 months after starting the massive
project. This was a major win for the cross-functional teams involved
considering the project had been in the works since 2019. Now, poweredby
Adobe Experience Cloud solutions like Adobe Commerce, Adobe
Analytics, and Adobe Target, the new headless experience pulls from
previously siloed data sources, features modern AI tools, and delivers a
high level of personalization that fulfills modern digital customer
experience expectations.
The experience:
Today, Casio’s new platform can expand quickly into other languages and
markets. Large amounts of detailed product information are unified and
accessible globally and linked automatically with Adobe Commerce.
Information for hundreds of new products each year is now efficiently
managed and distributed across organizations. A significant increase in
website visitors, page views, cross-searches, and sales already has Casio
looking toward their next digital experience upgrade.
The Experience Maker of the Year
Yuto Ueda helped Mizuho Bank, Ltd. recognize the benefits of investing in personalized customer experiences.
The Experience Maker of the Year recognizes the individual who has applied their
knowledge of best practices and expertise in Adobe marketing, advertising, or commerce
solutions to create exceptional customer experiences and deliver significant business
impact for their team and company.
The challenge:
Yuto Ueda is member of the Personal Marketing Department CX Design
Team at Mizuho Bank, one of the largest banks in Japan. As an
experienced user of Adobe Marketo Engage, Yuto saw that the bank’s use
of generic mass emails was missing a great opportunity. He knew from
previous experience that targeted campaigns deliver improved ROI and a
personalized experience better connects with customers at every stage in
the funnel.
The solution:
To demonstrate the benefits of targeted email campaigns, Yuto and
Mizuho Bank leveraged Adobe Marketo Engage to connect with their B2C
customers with housing and card loans. They discovered that
automatically delivering the right message to the right customers created
massive workforce efficiencies, while click and conversion rates for card
applications and landing pages drastically increased. Most importantly,
their customers benefited from a more personalized digital experience.
The experience:
Today, Yuto is leading his organization to expand the use of Adobe
Marketo Engage to other services and divisions within Mizuho Bank,
including expansion into B2B. Additionally, he and his team are aiming
to use Adobe Experience Cloud solutions to create and deliver
personalized nurture campaigns to over 10 million Mizuho Direct
service users. Now and moving forward, Adobe is helping Mizuho Bank
reach and exceed their evolving KPIs.
