Big data is a hot topic in the world of marketing. When you talk about marketing, the sector reflects a lot of challenges and fewer opportunities to reach out correct audience for the maximum outcome. With big data, anyhow the challenges are not going to reduce but you will get a plethora of opportunities in advertising your brand to the right audience, at the right time at right place. The major challenge of marketing industry is the competition which it faces at every step. Big data offers several creative ideas that strategies your marketing tactics and help you coming out with more customized and innovative ideas making you stand out among the rest and cutting down the competition.

What can big data change in marketing?

Forecasting and planning:

Forecasting is the foundation for all the marketers. Till the date, most of the marketers were working on a hit and trial method when it came to forecasting. Now, with the help of big data forecasting has got more accuracy and easier. Now, forecasters can grab details of several years; check the trends and collect a wide range of information used for making their report. This detailed analysis brings aptness to their work.

In forecasting, the marketers don’t need to spend a lot of time in research, instead they can attain the entire ready to use information, such as current market trends, consumer’s demand, shortage of commodities and many more.

More audience targeting:

With online marketing a huge pool of audience has been opened in front of marketers. From this huge pool now you can select your targeted audience easily by keeping an eye on their previous shopping, their browsing history, and other online activities. This is possible with the help of big data which help your website to place cookies in your viewers system and then analyze their online activities, track it, store it and use it for your further marketing activities.

One of the key factor for digital transformation is the big data. An organisation has huge data which is generated, collected frequently so these organisations are in search to adapt new technologies where the scope for digital transformation is accelerated. To digitise any organisation, it is imperative to implement useful data with specific methodology.

Big data helps enabling this digital transformation by following:

Digital marketing:  helps in analysis of customer’s behaviour and their preferences, hence market their products using big data available there by ensuring customer encouragement. Audience are being targeted on basis of data of revenues and sales of specific product. The combination of big data and marketing helps the organisation to reach various spots of industry.

Big data and 5G: digital transformation is accelerated only when there is good, fast and reliable communication networks which becomes paramount.

Recognising the flaws with big data: to yield maximum advantages, integrating big data with systems will aid in searching the loopholes where there is drawbacks in operations. Like in demand and supply chains, the big data analytics will assist to search drawbacks in the operations or in any product’s statistics which helps the brand to improvise the products and come up with a strategy to rectify the flaw in beginning stages.

Cyber security: when an organisation digitally transform they become open to malwares and cyber-attacks, therefore it becomes a threat to security systems of an organisation. So with help of data analytics and big data it is easier to find those areas where the probability is higher for cyber-attacks. Which helps to upgrade the security structure and alleviate the cyber-attack.

While big data governs the digital transformation, it could be hazardous for an organisation infrastructure too. Operations are interrupted when data is corrupted. So it is necessary for an organisation to be careful while using data for the digital transformation.

Data was ever a crucial aspect for every business sectors; either you talk about the present decade or date back to the past or older decades. Earlier also most of the business decisions were taken based on data and to tackle data they were having analysis techniques. But in the present time using the same traditional analysis techniques will not be feasible and the reason is huge variety in the data generated these days. You can never keep your domain confined to a single type of data collection. This rapidly changing types and volume of data required a potential platform and big data comes with a wide range of advantages for the businesses to avail from it.

Advantages of big data are:

Tracking:

Logistics companies greatly depend on time and location. To work effectively, it is necessary for the company to know the precise location of the goods. Big data assist you to track the location of your various goods and keep a track record of entire journey to enable the end user to estimate the goods delivery date also. Using the unique features of big data it is possible to understand the real-time weather, traffic and other related conditions of goods carrying vehicles.

Precision Medicine:

Direct supervision is mandatory in certain health circumstances, but when you have a huge number of patients to be taken care then it becomes difficult. Big data give you a direct access to the patients helping you to keep 24/7 monitoring to each of your patient. With the help of big data it is easy to mine the past health records and determines apt treatment based on it. This helps you brining precision to your treatment.

Entertainment and media:

Most of the folks like to get personalized content even when it is about entertainment and media too. Big data helps the entertainment industries to serve with personalized experiences keeping a detailed record of their previous searches, location, etc.