In a 2016 survey of predictive analytics companies, Gartner sized the global market at between $100 and $150 million. Although Gartner remains bullish on the sector, the size must be disappointing to both the firms in the space and their investors. One of the early companies in the space, Lattice Engines, continues as a market leader with over 200 global deployments.

Lattice Engines supports both enterprise clients and high-growth companies with deployments beginning around $75,000. Pricing is based upon the number of managed leads or contacts in the instance along with the number of users. With revenue between $25 and $50 million (GZ Consulting estimate), the firm has a strong position in the nascent market.

Lattice Engines combines first and third-party data to build predictive models. External content includes firmographics, intent data, technographics, social data, and web crawled business signals. Content is licensed from leading vendors such as Dun & Bradstreet (WorldBase global company file), Bombora (intent captured from over 3,000 B2B media sites), and HG Data (technographics). The Lattice Data Cloud covers over 200 million global companies, 21,000 buying signals, 100 million tracked domains, and over one billion daily interactions. Internal content spans transactions, CRM, marketing behavioral data, usage data, and support services.

“Predictive analytics is one of the few types of marketing technology that has the ability to solve issues at every step of the funnel, because it aligns sales and marketing against the right targets, and provides them with the right data to create targeted campaigns.  By infusing fit and intent data into our models we enable teams to have a complete understanding of their ideal customer profile, which enhances the programs teams orchestrate against their targets.”

• Director of Corporate Marketing Caitlin Ridge.

Firms can build multiple models to support various geographies, product lines, and scenarios (e.g. win/loss, upsell/cross-sell, renew/churn). Lattice scores and modeled data are integrated with many of the key SalesTech and MarTech platforms:

• Ads/Web: DemandBase, Oracle Data Cloud, doubleclick (Google), AdRoll, Facebook
• MAP: Marketo, Oracle Marketing Cloud (Eloqua), Pardot (Salesforce)
• CRM: Salesforce, MS Dynamics, Oracle Sales Cloud, SAP

This platform coverage enables Omni-channel ABM campaigns across programmatic platforms, email, direct mail, and field marketing.  Scores, insights, and recommendations are provided to sales reps within CRM i-frames.

“Lattice remains the most visible “face” of the market,” said Gartner analyst Todd Berkowitz in September 2016. “With its focus on security, level of integrations and ETL tools, the company is a fit for enterprise clients (both in high-tech and other industries) and/or companies planning to deploy in multiple regions. Gartner clients report that the company’s go-to-market approach is unique in the way it addresses complex problems and help customers operationalize the insights from the models. Lattice is one of the few vendors that can recommend key plays at both the lead and account level across the entire funnel.”

According to Lattice, customers enjoy a broad set of improved metrics:

• 2X Higher Conversion
• 3X Greater Pipeline
• 35% Higher Deal Sizes
• 6% Increase in Quota Attainment
• 85% Rise in Revenue per Customer
• 20% Reduction in Customer Churn

The firm sells broadly across B2B sectors.  Customers include Amazon, Dell, PayPal, Staples, and SunTrust Bank.

Tomorrow’s blog will cover core Lattice Engines model building and recommendations.