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Dynamics 365 Customer Insights

Understand your customers. Make each interaction matter.

Connect customer information and journeys to create more relevant experiences.

Conceptual illustration: Customer touchpoints unite into a clearer understanding of each journey.
Microsoft expertise. Built around your business.
Built forMarketing, customer experience and customer-data teams
The focusCustomer understanding and connected journeys
Our delivery approach

The business perspective

Technology witha clear purpose.

Fragmented customer data makes it difficult to see needs and preferences clearly. Build a more coherent view so teams can plan engagement with greater context.

A customer journey is only as useful as the understanding behind it. Customer Insights brings together customer-data and journey capabilities, helping teams connect what they know with how they communicate. We begin with a defined audience and a clear experience to improve, then work through identity, data quality, content and ownership. That makes the first release more focused and gives the business a practical way to evaluate relevance rather than simply increasing message volume.

Explore the possibilities

Built for the workthat matters.

A closer look at the capabilities and decisions that shape a useful solution.

Customer-data unification

Bring relevant transactional, demographic and behavioural information together. Define matching and data-quality decisions with the people responsible for customer records.

Segments and measures

Create meaningful audience groups and customer measures. Connect each segment to a business purpose and an agreed interpretation of the data.

Journey orchestration

Design interactions around customer events and lifecycle stages. Map entry conditions, content and exit rules before extending a journey across touchpoints.

Marketing and sales handover

Connect engagement information with the next action for sales. Define what qualifies a handover and what customer context the receiving team needs.

Content assistance

Explore Copilot support for creating segments, journeys and content. Review generated material against your brand, audience and campaign objectives before use.

Engagement learning

Measure how audiences respond and where journeys lose relevance. Use the findings to refine content, timing and the experience offered to customers.

From capability to everyday value

See itin practice.

Explore possible starting points for your organisation. Each scenario connects a business need with work to consider and measures to review.

Customer onboarding · Illustrative scenario

Make the first experience more coherent.

A new customer receives separate messages from several teams. Map the onboarding milestones and assign ownership of each communication. Identify which events should trigger a message and when a human conversation is more appropriate.

What to measureOnboarding completion and engagement qualityAgree a baseline and targets with your business owners.

Account development · Illustrative scenario

Give sales a meaningful next action.

Marketing activity generates interest without enough context for follow-up. Define the signals that matter and the information sales needs to continue the conversation. Review the handover with both teams before introducing more complex scoring or automation.

What to measureAccepted handovers and follow-up completionAgree a baseline and targets with your business owners.

Customer data · Illustrative scenario

Start with a trusted audience definition.

Teams disagree about how many active customers the business has. Identify the source records, matching rules and business definition. Validate a representative sample with data owners before using the resulting audience in a customer-facing journey.

What to measureProfile quality and duplicate resolutionAgree a baseline and targets with your business owners.

The Defacto approach

Clarity at every step.Ownership beyond launch.

We identify the data and touchpoints needed for your customer journeys, design integrations and help teams establish practical operating processes.

Explore our approach
  1. 01

    Define the experience

    Select the audience, journey and business objective. Review the information and communication preferences required to support that experience.

  2. 02

    Connect data and content

    Plan source integration, matching, segmentation and content ownership. Test the journey using representative customer situations and exceptions.

  3. 03

    Learn from the first release

    Agree meaningful measures and a review cadence. Give teams a process for maintaining segments, refining content and resolving data-quality issues.

A useful first conversation

Bring the context.
We’ll help shape the next step.

A few examples of your current work will make the discussion more specific.

  • Customer-data sources and matching requirements
  • Priority audiences and lifecycle events
  • Content owners and communication preferences
  • Sales handover rules and measures of engagement

Make an informed decision

Your questions.Considered answers.

The right scope starts with a clear understanding of your business, the platform and the work ahead.

What is the difference between Data and Journeys?

Customer Insights – Data focuses on customer-data unification and insight. Customer Insights – Journeys focuses on orchestrating customer interactions. We assess whether your priority requires one or both capabilities and how they connect to existing systems.

Do we need to connect every data source first?

No. Start with the information needed for a defined customer experience. Too many poorly understood sources can make the first release harder to validate. Expand the data foundation as new use cases justify the additional integration and ownership work.

What makes a useful first journey?

Choose a journey with a clear entry event, an identifiable audience and a meaningful completion point. Ensure someone owns both the content and the operational outcome. That creates a practical basis for evaluating the first release and deciding what to improve.

Your next chapter starts here

What’s your next?

A challenge to solve. An idea to explore. Let’s talk.