Adobe announced that Malaysia Airlines (MAS), a Malaysian national carrier, has signed a major deal to implement Adobe Marketing Cloud and Adobe Creative Cloud in an enterprise licensing agreement that is one of the company’s largest in Asia Pacific to date.
In a highly competitive tender that commenced in April 2013, MAS evaluated bids from incumbents and some of the industry’s leading solution and point product vendors, completing extensive assessment to determine the best technology to underpin their business-wide transformation.
Dean Dacko, Chief Marketing Officer, Malaysia Airlines, said 15 stakeholders across the business were involved in the selection process. “With a project of this size and complexity, it’s critical to engage stakeholders from across the business. The marketing department worked closely with IT, Sales, Customer Experience and Product among others to define needs, and evaluate tenders.”
“We selected five solutions from Adobe Marketing Cloud, including Adobe Target, Adobe Social, Adobe Media Optimizer, Adobe Analytics and Adobe Experience Manager. We’ll also be deploying managed services for Experience Manager. The solution provided us with the most intuitive, easy-to-use user interface along with deep analytic power and robust delivery.”
According to Dacko, the implementation will roll out in three phases, delivering the foundation to align digital marketing and customer engagement across all the company’s platforms and brands, including Firefly, MAS Wings, MAS Cargo and loyalty program Enrich. “We’re undertaking a huge digital marketing platform consolidation across the group over the next three years,” said Dacko. “The integration of off-line customer data from sources such as our loyalty program and customer call center, together with digital records and footprint, will give us access to a single customer view. This is going to allow us to deliver a whole new level of customer experience, through more personalised and customised content, offers and services.”
“A key element of our business turn-around was a boost to our brand campaign, backed up with strong customer experience management – delivering on a consistent brand promise across both real-world and digital touchpoints.”
Stephen Hamill, Director of Digital Marketing Cloud, Adobe Southeast Asia & Hong Kong, said the deal was notable for a number of firsts for the region. “We see this deal as a highly strategic partnership with an organisation that is not only a flagship regional brand, but also a digital visionary and leader. It’s the first managed services deal in Southeast Asia, reflecting that customers are looking to implement more complex solutions across whole-of-business rather than deploy point products.”