Sep 23–26, 2019

Gaining new insight into online customer behavior using AI

Moise Convolbo (Rakuten)
1:30pm2:00pm Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Location: 1A 06
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Customer satisfaction indicators, based on how customers behave with a service, are important factors of business output. For web services, especially from a product perspective, the way customers’ interact is in direct proportion to their level of satisfaction with the service. With the advent of big data, the information collected about customer interactions in a service provides valuable insights for decision makers.

One of the biggest business challenges is data-informed decision making. In the case of web services, such as an ecommerce platform, a travel or hotel reservation site, social media, or online dating site, customers follow a path to achieve their desired goal. Accomplishing this goal leads to conversion. The information gathered through this customer journey constitutes a tremendous opportunity to ensure the customer satisfaction with a web service.

Moise Convolbo presents a model for minimizing customer dissatisfaction, improving the quality of web services, using an internal tool from Rakuten called the PathFinder—an autohealing mechanism that allows stakeholders to detect customer struggles on a web service, add the business impact to these issues, then provide feedback on the implemented solution. This internal AI-Kaizen platform for path analytics in web services has assessed the performance of six different web services within Rakuten. PathFinder is able to automatically find and cluster the customer struggles. As a result, the company can detect and solve product issues that are attributed to customer behaviors leading to abandonment and lost revenue.

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Moise Convolbo

Rakuten

Moise Convolbo is a data scientist and research scientist at Rakuten, where he’s harnessing the potential of customer data in reaching “zero customer dissatisfaction.” He built a platform called the Rakuten PathFinder, which empowers product stakeholders such as PDMs, managers, and test engineers to focus on specific struggles along the users’ journeys in order to improve the company’s products and measure their business impact. It’s currently used by Rakuten Gora (the #1 golf course reservation site in Japan), Rakuten toto (the #1 lottery betting site), Rakuten O-net (the #1 match-making web service), and Rakuten Keiba (a horse racing betting service). Moise has had a long experience working with data, the cloud, and geodistributed data centers. He’s always been fascinated by what comes next, in terms of utilizing data from strategic data-informed business decisions. He’s active i academia and has spent time as a reviewer for major big data, cloud optimization, and data science journals from ACM, Elsevier, Springer, and the IEEE.

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