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While all business models aim for customer satisfaction, SaaS companies have to be extra vigilant. Since SaaS products are delivered through a monthly subscription model, SaaS companies<\/a> must ensure customer success. Customers have many options to consider each month when determining whether or not to renew their subscriptions. Competitors aren\u2019t just waiting in the wings; they aggressively tout solutions<\/a>. If a customer experiences frustration at your product, the risk is high that a competitor\u2019s solutions will look attractive, and the customer will move on.<\/p>\n

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Customer success ensures that your product is providing value to your customers and that your product offers an all-around satisfying experience. Keeping current customers happy is an essential goal for a variety of reasons, but not just in a \u201cwarm and fuzzy\u201d \u2014 and vague \u2014 sense of \u201ccustomer satisfaction<\/a>.\u201d When customers experience value from a product, they renew and ultimately become product advocates. On average, it costs five times as much to convert a new prospect than it does to retain existing customers. The key to SaaS provider success is their customer success, and behavioral analytics helps pave the road that leads to it.<\/p>\n

Measuring behavior is
\nthe key to enabling customer success<\/h3>\n

But how can a business
\nget the right kind of visibility into the value derived from a product? The
\nanswer is not found in guesswork. With all the data available to SaaS
\nproviders, actions can be based on real-life, from real-time feedback.
\nBehavioral analytics allows companies to measure every moment of the customer
\njourney. When you can measure something, you can understand it, and when you
\nknow, you can exert influence. Through a variety of means, SaaS companies can
\nfocus on the entire customer journey and analyze behaviors. These behaviors
\ngive insight into adoption rate, product usage, and can provide opportunities
\nto identify where customers can derive more value from the product.<\/p>\n

Understanding
\nbehavioral analytics<\/h3>\n

Behavioral analytics
\nmeasures user activity within a digital product. It reflects reality for your
\ncustomers within the walls of your SaaS. Customer activity is converted to
\nbehavioral data. This data is generated when users interact with a product,
\napp, or site. It can be the result of clicks or swipes, the duration of time
\nspent on a task, or a host of other activities along the customer journey. For
\nexample, the onboarding process should be welcoming and easy to use. If you
\nlearn through behavioral data, that new customers take too long to sign up, or
\nthat they abandon certain onboarding aspects, then you will want to work to
\noptimize this process.<\/p>\n

Behavioral analytics<\/a> play a key role in data-driven product management, and understanding behavior can help increase conversion at every stage. SaaS providers need to harness these various opportunities because each of these stages of the customer journey also offers the customer an out. But, there is a ton of data. So much data that most businesses don\u2019t take action on most of it. The problem is, most companies do not know which snippets of behavioral data to look at, to scrutinize and to react to.<\/p>\n

Getting the right
\ninsight into behavioral data<\/h3>\n

The glut of data, but lack of actionable visibility is a problem for SaaS businesses that are looking to enable customer success. The visibility of crucial actions, then, becomes a priority. The right dashboard solution provides more than just visibility. It uses data to:<\/p>\n