Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Spyglaz is a big data startup developing applications that are designed to help businesses manage customer churn, retain their existing customers, and recognize new leads. Spyglaz’s premier offering is a churn prediction platform that utilizes consumer analytics to help identify which customers you are at risk of losing so that you can develop targeted marketing strategies or plan for increased instability in your revenue stream. The application uses proprietary algorithms to analyze patterns in prior sales data to identify which customers are losing interest and which ones are likely to drop off your sales map entirely. These same algorithms also deliver actionable insights that enable you to design marketing campaigns aimed at retaining at-risk customers or attracting new ones.
“Reducing churn and keeping more customers is a top priority for any business,” says Spyglaz Founder and CEO Neeraja Rasmussen, “Simply put, less customers means less revenue. Our platform helps you pinpoint potential customer loss before it happens so that you can take the necessary steps to mitigate losses during customer churn.”
With a developer team spread across several continents, Rasmussen knew that her company needed a stable cloud environment, one with access to powerful applications, to fully develop their desired platform. After researching a variety of cloud providers, she decided that Azure would ensure a successful product could be brought to market in an accelerated time frame. “Given the constant iteration and chaos that comes with launching a startup, it’s reassuring to know that we’re using such a stable, secure platform that also provides us with world class development tools. Azure allowed us to launch a commercial version of Spyglaz much quicker than we imagined.”
Spyglaz chose to host their application on Azure because of its stable cloud environment, and developed their front-end solution using the .NET and C# frameworks. Spyglaz also uses a variety of Azure features, namely Visual Studio, for advanced analytics and integration capabilities. Rasmussen says that her team is happy with their decision to build on Azure and that they look forward to utilizing additional Azure features as their platform evolves, “As we grow and plan future releases for our predictive analytics platform, we are looking forward to testing and leveraging additional Azure offerings for business intelligence, visualization, and machine learning. There are so many ways Azure can help us improve our platform.”
Spyglaz Founders Neeraja Rasmussen and Rafael Scott
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