A Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system includes a CRM Client, CRM
Engine, and Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). The CRM
Client, CRM Engine, and RDBMS integrate a suite of services that allow
users to plan, manage, and execute promotional or marketing campaigns,
build customer segments, score customers, and analyze customer behavior,
product purchases, and response to promotional campaigns. The services
include an automated Analytic Data Set Creation service, which simplifies
and automates the process of creating analytic data sets useful for
modeling and analysis out of operational data stored in the relational
database, and a Response Modeling service, which automatically creates
promotion response models to score individual customers based on that
model in order to predict which customers are most likely to respond to a
future promotional campaign.