The answer is YES, if you as a customer DO NOT participate in the solution. As a customer, you need to be part of the implementation. Data Analytics yields the best results if you as a customer constantly provides feedback to the implementation specialists. The rule set need to be tweaked more often initially and it can only be tweaked with your regular input to make it better and better. Prepare to invest a key member of your team to work with implementation specialists regularly before venturing into having a data analytics based solution.

Trust me, I have seen this happened before. Also seen customers benefiting more than their anticipated initial goal by following the rule of thumb described above.

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The software giants or online retail giants have 170 years of learning to do to catch up. I rather board a moving bus than waiting for a bus that I am not sure if it will ever come.

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