What’s new in 1608 Campaign Management SAP Hybris Marketing and S/4HANA Marketing Cloud
Here are the enhancements we deliver with our August 2016 release:
Orchestrate Campaigns with SAP Hybris Customer Journey*)
Seamless integration of SAP Customer Journey*) and SAP Hybris Marketing or S/4HANA Marketing Cloud campaigns:
- Design activities in customers journey which orchestrates multiple campaigns
- Select and link campaigns in
- Directly see success data in Customer Journey
*) SAP Hybris Customer Journey is available as beta solution for selected countries.
Advanced E-Mail and template editor
More flexible & easy definition of mailings with personalized display of offers and multiple products:
- Create & edit templates and mails in the same app
- Save mails as templates
- Drag & drop for content blocks and external HTML content
- Control what can be edited by standard or expert users
- CMS/DAM Integration for pictures from Hybris Commerce in S/4HANA
- Add product lists or offers to any e-mailing coming from any product catalog
- Automatically check content validity (e.g. broken links)
- See this video to learn more
Advanced offer & product data in E-Mails
Marketing experts can dynamically display personalized offers (e.g. free shipping, buy one get two) and product lists in e-mails:
- Design personalized e-mails with individual products and offers
- Embed offers in e-mails including automatic eligibility check per contact
- Search and add product lists coming from any product catalog
SAP Hybris Commerce as image library for mails in S/4HANA Marketing Cloud
Marketing experts can directly search & reuse pictures stored in SAP Hybris Commerce:
- Full text keyword searching against asset metadata
- Browse through your search results
- Possibility to search across multiple digital asset management systems
- Combined result sets over connected digital asset management systems
- Only approved images are available
- Option to view and select images in different resolutions
Landing Page analytics based on extendable SAP HANA view
Marketing experts can do out-of-box analysis of the landing page success:
- Out-of-the-box KPIs: Views, Submits, New contacts
- Time range selection
- Build your own reports with SBEE/Insight, SAP Lumira or SAP BusinessObjects Cloud *)
- Cross landing page analytics with extensible Hana analytical view for landing page success*).
*) Possible with SAP Hybris Marketing on premise or private cloud only
Open Channel Action: Develop in S/4HANA customer-specific campaign actions e.g. lettershop, workflows or mobile apps
Marketing experts can use customer-specific campaign automation actions to e.g. automate e.g. printing of personalized brochures:
- Programmatically connect external applications via HCI by developing custom actions in the campaign automation
- Automatically provide follow-up data for any external system e.g. lettershop, mobile app, web-shop, service portal etc.
- Pass over all personalization data automatically for each contact using HCI also in S/4HANA
- In-place analytics for outbound interactions
Enhanced look & feel for campaign and target groups
Marketing experts can more easily get an overview on campaigns and target groups:
- New overview page in campaign
- In flow display of campaign success
- Enhanced display of e-mails and collaboration
- Campaign categories in Launchpad
- Target group tile view with last activity, interaction score & links
External Campaign Integration e.g. for ad service platforms
Marketing experts can plan campaigns, define targets groups and trace campaign success in SAP S/4HANA or Hybris Marketing with a flexible integration to any external systems technically executing the campaigns e.g. ad service platforms like Turn, SAP XM etc.:
- Hand-over unique identifier from a target group using HCI also in S/4HANA
- Standard integration to SAP XM for display ads
- CSV upload of success data
- Available on-premise and public cloud
Flexible S/4HANA analytics for campaign e-mail success
Marketing experts can build and extend in S/4HANA Marketing Cloud their own embedded reports to track campaign success for e-mails:
- Extendible email & SMS Cross Campaign Success view in S/4HANA (aka CDS view)
- Consume campaign success data in SAP BusinessObjects Cloud (aka C4A)
- Use Query Designer and Query Browser to manage your reports in S/4HANA
- Build custom CDS Views with End-to-End Extensibility in S/4HANA
Enhanced S/4HANA Segmentation Customizing
Cloud customers can adapt segmentation without the need to demand services from shared service center:
- Assign Preview Types to Attributes incl. set default
- Maintain Attribute Groups
- Learn more on how to manage attribute groups in segmentation
Approve Campaigns with SAP Business Workflow
Enhanced flexibility, automation and usability for campaign approval:
- Flexibly define approval rules
using SAP Business Workflow e.g. campaigns with
budget >1.000 € - Select an approver & request campaign release using SAP Business Workflow
- Send mail notifications with links
- Release, reject, forward or suspend
- Define substitution rules
WeChat Campaign Integration
Marketing experts are enabled to execute WeChat campaigns in SAP Hybris marketing and analyze the campaign success report:
- WeChat Digital Account Management
- Analyze WeChat contact acquisition & subscription status & their interactions.
- Display geo-location with Baidu Map
- WeChat campaign execution
- WeChat content integration
- Campaign success analytics
- Trigger-based campaign
- See more in the WeChat Video
Great to see the added featured and improvements.