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Allegiance Turns Tweets into Actionable Customer Insights

October 27, 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Allegiance Turns Tweets into Actionable Customer Insights

- Goes beyond monitoring and measuring sentiment to fully integrate social media feedback into a real-time Voice of the Customer platform -

SALT LAKE CITY – October 27, 2010 – Allegiance today announced the integration of social media into its Engage Voice of the Customer (VOC) platform to allow businesses to filter and convert unstructured comments on social media into structured data for analysis and action. The Allegiance Engage platform gathers customer feedback from multiple channels in real time into a centralized system to accelerate critical customer insights and decision-making.

Allegiance uses powerful text analytics to allow businesses to listen to comments posted on Twitter, identify comments that require action, and then respond directly with a targeted survey. Using Allegiance, companies can quickly improve customer rescues, up-sells and brand monitoring while gathering valuable data for analysis. By turning comments into structured surveys, VOC managers can monitor trends, demographics, market segments, and more.

The Temkin Group, a customer experience research and consulting firm, recently released a study that identified social media as an emerging channel for Voice of The Customer. Although only 22 percent of the companies in the study currently use social media for customer feedback, the research showed that 35 percent are actively considering it.

“Social media is currently a small component of formalized VOC programs, but it’s growing rapidly,” said Bruce Temkin, managing partner of Temkin Group. “VOC managers will need new tools and processes for analyzing and responding to these comments. We see a major trend in companies working with unstructured, unsolicited data like social media feedback.”

Allegiance Engage enables organizations to:

Identify specific sales and service transactions or customer experiences automatically with the Engage smart filter
Turn social media comments into structured data for analysis using targeted surveys Respond to social media comments quickly and consistently across departments and brands

Close the loop with customers and prospects to engage, rescue, cross-sell and up-sell Deliver real-time insights through the Engage platform’s Web-based dashboards and reports

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“Although there are now more than 145 social media monitoring tools, these typically only monitor channels for specific mentions of a company or brand. A handful actually extract general sentiment but still do not integrate into other Voice of the Customer systems,” said Eric Weight, director of text analytics products for Allegiance. “These tools also have no scalable response mechanism. Allegiance Engage solves these problems by giving companies the ability to take action immediately to gather more relevant data, retain customers and increase loyalty.”

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  2. Voice of the Customer Blog <http://blog.allegiance.com>

  3. Become a Fan of Allegiance on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/pages/South- Jordan-UT/Allegiance-Inc/87289901462>

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  5. Allegiance customer success stories and white papers <http://www.allegiance.com/

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About Allegiance, Inc.

Allegiance, Inc. offers a new approach to Voice of the Customer (VOC) software that gives companies the ability to collect feedback from multiple channels, such as social media, online and mobile surveys, to engage and rescue customers in real time. Allegiance solutions measure customer and employee engagement, uncover insights, and reveal precise actions to grow loyalty and increase revenue. Allegiance ranked No. 5 on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing, privately held software companies in 2009 and number two in the Top 10 Growth Chart by the Software 500 in 2010. For more information about Allegiance, visit http://www.allegiance.com.

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Media Contacts

Chris Cottle
Allegiance, Inc. 801-617-8034 chris.cottle@allegiance.com

Valerie Chereskin

Chereskin Communications

760-942-3116

valerie@chereskincomm.com

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