Online CRM technology and consulting provider artegic AG expands its delivery network with a messaging service for WhatsApp. WhatsApp’s 500 million users make it number one in the mobile messaging market, followed by Chinese provider WeChat with almost 400 million monthly users.
The new messaging interface allows the sending and receiving of WhatsApp messages. Recipients can be targeted via SMS or WhatsApp according to their preferences, context, news content or use behaviour. A user’s response can automatically trigger a reaction, which has been predefined within the marketing automation function – analogous to SMS. With its ELAINE CampaignDesigner artegic provides a graphic drag and drop editor for complex and dynamical marketing campaigns in real-time.
Furthermore, the ELAINE ® Online Dialogue CRM with its Privacy Admission Control is the first technical solution for messaging services to include a comprehensive opt-in management for data privacy-compliant dialogue marketing. The new service supports the service and transaction communication, as well as the “No Ads Policy” of WhatsApp.
“Messaging services have recently seen a clear increase. Especially young target groups now use services, such as WhatsApp significantly more frequently than SMS. In order to reach customers at all touchpoints in the digital lifecfycle, it is important to integrate all new communication paths, users are choosing”, says Stefan von Lieven, CEO, artegic AG.