"How can big data help us accelerate external monetization?"
A presentation by Hezi Zelevski, VP Corporate Development at cVidya
Presented in the " Monetizing Big Data in Telecoms World Summit 2015" conference in Singapore on April 20-21, 2015
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Everybody is Talking about Big Data…
“Top Technology Trends Impacting Information Infrastructure in 2013”
However…
“Processing large volumes or wide varieties of data,
remains merely a technological solution, unless it is tied to
business goals and objectives”
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Reduce operational costs Increase revenues, launch
Decline in traditional service revenues (Voice, SMS)
Unlimited Price Plans
Increasing competitionConsolidations & mergersGlobal financial recession
Real-time Self-Service
Data
Monetization
New services /products:
“ Internet of Things ”
Data
Explosion
New
Billing Schemes
Telecom Market Trends
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Data Monetization Opportunities
Internal
− Effective customer proposition
− Effective campaigns execution
− Greater value and differentiation versus
− ……
External
− Resell aggregated data to third party partners in the
form of trends
− Profiles
− Location
− usage patterns
− Movement
− ......
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External Monetization is Still at Early Maturity Stages
60% of operators believe that “it is important for Telcos to harness the
power of Big Data to drive new revenue streams externally...”
Only 10% of respondents claimed they are currently focusing on an
external monetization program for their subscriber Big Data
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External Monetization - Push or Pull ?
End Subscriber
Added value
Third Party
Use cases
Customer engagement
Operator
Data
Platform
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Accelerating Business Breakthroughs
The right Use Cases
Location
Advertisement
Financial
…….
External Monetization
Bid Data Solution
External web portal
Rich GUI with analytical and
reporting capabilities
Control over the data
3rd Party Engagement
3rd party value
Partnership
Market knowledge
Privacy &
Regulation
Customer data
Complete
Accurate
Enriched
Online
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Big Data
Analytics
Platform
Data
Analytics
Use Cases
Big Data
The Analytics Workflow
Big Data
CRM
Usage
DPI
Location
ERP
DWH
Billing
Switch
…….
Data
Analytics
Collection
Verification
Enrichment
Aggregation
Use Cases
Value
Solution
Analysis
Simulation
Action
Monitoring
Big Data
Analytics
Platform
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Examples for External Monetization Use Cases
Targeted Advertising
Micro-segment the base into behavioral, demographic and
geographic segments, offering advertisers the possibility of
targeting those segments directly via the operator
FMCG
Large Retailers
Description Potential Customers
Location Trend Reports
Track trends in customers’ location and
movements, and send period reports to clients
Real estate companies
Public transport agencies
Large retailers
Market Research
Leveraging the customer base, as a proxy for the
market to support customized market studies
Travel Agencies
Banks
Municipalities
Financial Fraud Detecting real-time CC and ATM fraud
Banks
Credit Card Companies
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AT&T Credit Card / ATM Fraud Detection
When a CC (or debit card) is either stolen or
“duplicated” and used by another person in
another location to purchase a good or
withdraw cash
Identify in real time (when transaction is
submitted) that the use of it is not performed by
the card owner
Block the card from additional use and/or block
the transaction
Solution is based on physical location of mobile
device
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Transportation Example
Key Success Factors
Understand potential partners’ business needs
Translate needs to relevant insights
Accurate and reliable data
Intuitive environment for data exploration
Establish a business model to accommodate
partner’s maturity
Accompany your partners – key to a long-
term success
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Analyze location data by providing
statistics for predefined hotspots at any
time range, enriched with subscribers'
profile and usage data
Answer questions such as:
– Where are the most crowded hotspots?
– What are the potential locations for new
hotspots?
– What are popular roaming visitors'
locations?
– First timers vs. repeated visitors in different
locations?
General Geographical Traffic Analysis
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Telco Added Value
Origin and destination definitions – based on
commuter movements and behavior
Origin/destination predictions - Given
origin/destination location and a certain time,
date and events, predict destination/origin in a
predefined time.
Commuter profile
Public vs. private journey
Real-time congestion
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Business Attributes
Enriched Commuter
Profile
Home Location
Work/School
Location
PT Digital Habits
Age
Gender
Interests
Families and Social
Circles
Destination Prediction
Algorithms
Waiting Time
Calculations
SWT
AWT
EWT
Origin & Destination
Analysis
Transfer Time Public
vs. Private
Density/Congestion
By Station
By route (Shape)
By Location
Origin & Destination
Analysis
Journey Analysis
Public Transpiration
Users
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Operators Data Sources:
Subscribers Location
̶ Location Based System
̶ Access points
Subscribers Profile
̶ CRM
̶ Advanced models
Subscribers mobile usage behavior
̶ Voice, Text, Data
Accessible Transportation Data Sources – Optional
Real-Time data from GPS devices on vehicles
SWT and other internal data sources
Data Sources
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Home – Work/School Journey Pattern Identification
machine
learning
algorithms
machine
learning
algorithms
LBS
Data
AP +
LBS
Data
LBS
Data
AP +
LBS
Data
AP +
LBS
Data
LBS
Data
LBS
Data
Journey Analysis
̶ Duration
̶ Distance
̶ Cost
̶ Congestion level
̶ Dwell time
̶ Walk time
̶ Number of connections in journey
̶ Etc.
Transfer Time: Public vs. Private
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Summary
Operators have huge amounts of data
The challenge is to monetize it
The Push strategy
− Learn the market needs
− Define and build the right solution
− Treat 3rd party as another customer we need to
understand and propose the right solution
− Accompany your partners – key to a long-term
success