Most forecasts first look backward and then extrapolate into the future. This is like projecting your spending based on your two-week vacation—without taking the rest of the year into account. Predictions about spending habits are more than
a numbers game, and a live window on consumer intentions is more valuable than any two-week snapshot. Fortunately, consumers signal their intentions millions of times a day online. Hidden in these mass opinions are the seeds of future action.
WiseWindow’s patented Mass Opinion Business Intelligence (MOBI) perpetually crawls the Web capturing comments, analyzing their contents, and distilling them into a database of intentions. The volume and intensity of these opinions can be traced over time, helping
pave the way for more accurate predictions, whether it’s the correlation between the value of mass opinion and record sales, the opening weekend tally of a blockbuster, or gift purchases during the holiday season.
Something is missing in business intelligence: the customer. What passes for intelligence today is cut-and-dried reports looking backward rather than forward. But the question isn’t only what people did last quarter. It’s what they are thinking right now.
WiseWindow’s MOBI data is the missing piece in business intelligence—a powerful, additional predictive variable used in combination with other BI to build models of consumer behavior.