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Digital Authority Partners (DAP) is an award-winning professional services company that provides advanced analytics solutions for industry leaders, from Fortune 500 companies to startups, nonprofits and governments to prestigious universities.

Every industry stands to benefit from the power of data. Proper use of that data gives organizations a key competitive edge in the fulfillment of their missions.

DAP partners with its clients to provide end-to-end, long-term data solutions. We don’t just install analytics and leave. We listen to our clients, evaluate their business practices, and formulate an analytics plan that actually works. We identify the key performance indicators (KPIs) that actually matter, cranking down the noise and teasing out the data that provide the right information. We then help our clients understand how to interpret that data, and build a user-friendly dashboard that aggregates data from multiple sources into one beautiful, user-friendly dashboard. Anything you can count, you can improve. DAP’s Chicago analytics services help organizations achieve their full potential, and beyond.

We won’t just create your next amazing website or app.
We help you measure & improve your digital presence with robust analytics.

Analytics Strategy
Platform Implementation
Testing and Analysis
Marketing Analytics
Reporting and Optimization
Analytics Audit

We start by analyzing your analytics—what data do you already track? What data do you have access to and you didn’t even know it? How many different sources do you pull data from? Do they feed into a centralized back office? Are reports easy to generate? What’s missing? We perform a thorough analytics audit and identify key areas for improvement.

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Define KPIs

“KPI” is short for “key performance indicator.” This is a metric you can track over time. Movement in a KPI might indicate that your strategies are working, or they might reveal a need for improvement. Not every organization will have the same KPIs. eCommerce might depend on email open rates, professional service providers on conversion rates, biotech companies on biometric data. We identify which KPIs you must track, and which ones don’t apply to you.

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Taxonomy Recommendations

Data only matters to your business if it can serve as a guide to decision-making. An event taxonomy is a sequence of events that recommend a course of action. We help you develop a taxonomy that makes it easy to act on your data—when events fulfill the conditions of your taxonomy, you know exactly how to respond.

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Implementation Roadmap

Once we understand the gaps in your analytics, define KPIs, and build an event taxonomy, we devise a step-by-step strategy to implement your analytics.

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Leading Platforms

Choosing the right platform is critical to a successful analytics strategy. DAP’s Chicago analytics team has critical insight to help you identify the right solutions. We have expertise in all the leading platforms, including Tableau, Domo, Sisense, and many more.

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Smooth Integration

Most organizations have data coming in from multiple sources. There’s no reason why this should mean chaos and information overload. We integrate all your data sources into one holistic collection architecture.

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Support Current Infrastructure

Every organization worries that an upgrade means ditching their current infrastructure and upgrading—costly and perhaps unnecessary. DAP understands this struggle, and we bend over backwards to devise a solution compatible with your current infrastructure.

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Conversion rate optimization

One of the most important insights your data can grant you is what messages cause your visitors to convert to clients, leads, or customers, and what messages don’t work nearly as well. We help you use analytics to home in on the best possible conversion strategy.

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A/B and multivariate testing

Key to identifying the best messages and processes is comparing one option to the other. A/B testing across multiple variables allows you to present your assets to a defined audience and see which one performs better.

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CTA optimization

The most important A/B tests are on your “call to action” (CTA), the instructions to your prospects on what to do next. Something as simple as the color of the button could lead to more conversions—and we don’t leave that to chance. We A/B test your CTAs across every variable imaginable, so you don’t have to.

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Product performance tracking

Whether you sell hard products, data, or information, we extensively track the performance of your product, uncovering opportunities to improve the product page or customer journey to increase sales.

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Produce dashboard to monitor KPIs

Wouldn’t it be nice to have one centralized dashboard to view all your KPIs? DAP makes sure you don’t have to go on a scavenger hunt to piece together the data you need. We organize all your relevant KPIs on one easy-to-read dashboard.

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Ensure accessibility of data to teams

Many analytics strategies fail not because you fail to gather the data, but because the data never makes it to the team member who has the authority and expertise to act on it. We develop customized analytics solutions that ensure the right team member has access to the right data at the right time.

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Email Analytics

Email marketing plays a critical role in the back-end development of a business. Want to cross-sell? Upsell? Increase your “customer lifetime value”? Email marketing is the way to do it. We install top-notch email analytics so you know exactly how well your campaigns are working, and where there is room for improvement.

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Content Marketing Analytics

SEO experts consider content marketing the best strategy for long-term brand growth. DAP’s Chicago analytics team implements data-monitoring on your content to determine what content is performing well and what isn’t. We also use predictive analysis to make data-driven decisions on what content you should produce next.

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Social Media Analytics

Social media presence can make or break brands. DAP installs game-changing analytics on your brand’s social media to determine which posts are working and which aren’t. This helps us devise a strategy to use social media to the greatest advantage of your brand.

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Campaign Analytics

You have to know the data behind your marketing analytics. How else do you know whether you are getting your money’s worth? We install industry-best analytics on your digital marketing campaigns so you always know exactly how much each sale costs you.

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Custom reporting

Gathering the data is just the beginning. We devise custom reporting algorithms to present you the data in a coherent, visually appealing way—only the data you need, minus the noise.

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Visualization tools

A picture is worth a thousand words. We incorporate visualization tools to help you spot trends in the data that a column of numbers might not reveal.

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Clear takeaways

So now you have the data … What do you do about it? We arm our reporting solutions with automated “takeaway” suggestions based on our event taxonomy. You won’t just have the data … you’ll have clear suggestions of next steps.

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Helping Chicago Businesses
Optimize Their Analytics Since 2015

Few industries stand to benefit from data analytics more than the healthcare industry. In the move to digital, retail, and telehealth models, medical providers can no longer be assured of a captive audience of patients and care-seekers. They have to compete in a digital environment and can’t ignore user-behavior trends—exactly the kinds of things you need analytics to track.

More so than marketing and building a patient journey, data collection is revolutionizing the way that care is provided. Doctors and other care providers have access to a wealth of user-generated data collected by wearable devices, SaMD, and IoMT devices. All of that data is inert without the systems necessary to collate and interpret it. 

DAP’s Chicago data analytics experts help healthcare providers sort out their data-collection architecture so they can attract more patients, and render better care once the patients enter their system. 

Implementing healthcare data analytics can benefit providers in many ways, including:

  • Gaining Market Share. Leverage data to understand what kind of care is in demand and how to optimize the delivery of that care; what specialties to pursue, where to expand, and more.
  • Deliver Better Insights to Providers. Give physicians and other healthcare providers better visibility into patient behavior, providing actionable data that can inform paths to better healthcare outcomes.
  • Improving the Patient Experience. Acquire practical information about how patients use your digital tools and how you can improve them. 

Healthcare companies must comply with exacting HIPAA standards in the collection and storage of data. DAP’s Chicago analytics team are HIPAA experts, experienced in building and maintaining a compliant analytics system.

Government data collection is a sensitive subject, to put it mildly, but government organizations can use benign user data to improve services and transparency in any number of ways. The key mandate of governments is to help constituents, dispense justice, and provide order and accountability. Data analytics help governments understand their constituents and their interactions with the government, making it easier for public servants to serve.

DAP has helped numerous local, state, and federal government agencies put the power of analytics to use for the public good. Advantages that bureaus and agencies reap from our Chicago analytics services include:

  • Improved Decision Process. Decisions aided by real-time data, avoiding guesswork and making it harder to avoid facts and favor agendas.
  • Increased Productivity. Informed decisions lead to better, more rapid service delivery. 
  • Enhanced Transparency. Centralized data access makes it easier for governments to meet their mandate of transparency by making public records easily accessible.
  • Reduced Costs. Data analytics automate processes that governments once expended personnel hours on, reducing costs, freeing up budgets, and creating savings that can be passed on to taxpayers or other programs.

As fintech companies disrupt old standards and financial institutions adapt to become more customer-oriented, the importance of data collection cannot be overstated. Insights into customer behavior can be gleaned from every transaction and interaction, then used to create a better, more personalized customer experience. 

Analytics help bring vast swarms of activity in digital finance under control, reducing them to manageable figures that tell coherent stories and point to actionable insights.

DAP’s Chicago analytics services help financial and fintech institutions:

  • Customize the User Experience. Insights into customers’ age, location, income, location, and marital status can be used to assess risk levels and generate customized, empathetic user journeys with targeted product recommendations. The result—more conversions, more customers.
  • Offer Better Customer Service. One of the key benefits of data analytics for financial institutions is the digital record of all banking activity, which can be used to identify anomalies and provide rapid, responsive support.
  • Improve Security. Data analytics can be paired with fraud-detection algorithms that recognize anomalous transactions, providing alerts to both personnel and the user that a transaction might be vulnerable to attack.

The education industry has always depended on data to understand students, evaluate teachers, and track progress toward fulfilling the mandate of a school or university. As education joins the exodus to digital, that’s more true than ever. 

Digital learning tools can be armed with analytics to track student and teacher behavior down to the most minute details, while student outcomes and teacher performance can be tracked with both accuracy and precision.  

DAP is a leader in the field of education analytics. Our Chicago analytics team has devised and deployed data collection and reporting systems for some of the most prestigious universities, high-impact schools, and industry-leading digital learning companies. 

DAP can help educational institutions deploy analytics to track:

  • Student Growth Metrics. Big data and e-learning are a revolution in quantifying student learning progress. Rather than boiling down and sorting students to one number on a standardized test, analytics create a much more complete and holistic picture of each individual student, identifying strengths to nurture and weaknesses ripe for intervention.
  • Human Capital Analytics (HCA). DAP helps educational institutions track meaningful metrics of human capital, including the performance of teachers, effectiveness of administrators, and efficiency of support staff.
  • Predictive Analytics. Analytics can do more than just tell you where you are—they can help you predict where you are headed. This includes predictions of how students will perform in standardized tests, whether your student body as a whole meets established educational benchmarks, and budgetary projections.

Ecommerce was one of the industries that first made the power of analytics known to the world. The discovery that you could track user interactions, use data to improve customer journeys, quantify the results of digital marketing so you would always know if you were “buying” customers for less than the revenue they generated–it was an earthquake in the global economy, one that we are still feeling today.

Ecommerce remains popular precisely because you can quantify everything. DAP’s Chicago analytics team can rig every corner of your business architecture with data traps that tell you who your customers are, what they care about, what they are looking at when they decide to buy, where in the customer journey they are making the decision not to buy and need more persuasion. 

Properly executed, Ecommerce analytics are a window into every aspect of your buyer funnel to identify problem areas, fix them, and get real-time input as to whether the fixes work. DAP analytics solutions for Ecommerce stores include:

  • Inbound Marketing Analytics. Determine the ROI on your inbound marketing campaigns down to the penny. A/B testing is especially effective for testing ad creative to reduce your cost of customer acquisition even further. 
  • Customer Lifetime Value. Track customer metrics long-term—not just the initial sale, but upsells, cross-sells, and repeat business. Your “customer lifetime value” (CLV) may be a lot higher than you think, and it may justify more aggressive marketing. 
  • Time on Page. Tracking time-on-page metrics makes it clear which content pages are pulling their weight, and which ones are dead weight. 
  • Shopping Cart Analytics. Tells you which products are in demand and which product pages are prompting customers to take action.
  • Conversion Ratios. Determine how many visitors to your site take action toward purchase. Improve the persuasiveness of your website, and watch conversion ratios tick up in real time. 
  • Email Marketing Analytics. Email marketing is critical to eCommerce, a key avenue of lead-conversion, upsells, cross-sells, and increased CLV. DAP installs industry-leading analytics everywhere in your customer journey, including follow-up emails.

 

Analytics have been a boon to every manufacturing operation that has adopted them. The manufacturing process is filled with quantifiable data, from supply chain stats to operational measurements to output calculations. Historically, much of this data was hidden in the system, impossible to calculate or make sense of en masse. 

Digital data analytics and AI business intelligence algorithms have changed all that. DAP’s analytics solutions for manufacturing enterprise wring coherence from the noise. From intake to output, a wealth of data is hiding in your facility, pointing the way to increased efficiency, greater output, cost savings, and enhanced profits. 

Elements of our manufacturing analytics solutions include:

  • Unify All Your Data in One Place. No more scattered collection sites or multiple back-offices—all your data available though one convenient, cross-departmental portal. 
  • Intuitive UI. No crowded, cumbersome charts to parse through to get to the good stuff. We provide an intuitive user interface that even the non-tech-savvy stakeholders can use to quickly find the most relevant stats.
  • IoT Integration. Much of the data collection that happens on factory floors happens thanks to Internet of Things (IoT) devices. DAP integrates all IoT data collection tools into a unified back office—even devices of different makes and models.
  • Sales Logistics. Track customer behavior, create buyer personas, calibrate the buyer journey, and make projections of marketing ROI and CLV.

 

 

The data of running a law firm often flies under the radar for most attorneys. For a profession that depends on evidence, this is a loss. By leveraging insights revealed by data, law firms can enhance their firm’s profitability, processes, and ability to serve clients.

DAP’s Chicago analytics experts know how to extract actionable data from unexpected corners of legal operations, tracking KPIs that reveal actionable business intelligence and suggest remedial actions.

Analytics can help a law firm track:

  • Efficiency. Find out which of your processes are burning personnel hours that could better be used elsewhere. Leaning up operations is a key driver of profitability for law firms.
  • Audience Trends. Data can reveal the direction of consumer activity, enabling you to position your firm to prosper in light of emergent trends. 
  • Marketing Effectiveness. Law firms benefit significantly from inbound marketing. Analytics can tell you which marketing campaigns are working, which need to be improved or scrapped, which ad creative works, which sources of marketing produce more revenue than they cost.

DAP’s Chicago analytics experts install integrated, automated data analytics that put the information your firm needs to know front and center.

Any professional service agency that has not put the power of data to work for them is simply leaving money on the table, ignoring their biggest opening for growth. This goes for accountants, consultants, engineers, architects, and IT vendors. Without analytics, you have no idea how your clients are responding to your marketing materials or how well your website converts clients to leads. All you know is that it’s working or not working, but you don’t know why or what needs fixing. 

Analytics can help professional service providers paint a picture of their ideal customer, and then use that profile to laser-target them with marketing materials. Analytics can help you A/B test your marketing creative and home in on the perfect message that gets them clicking, converting, buying.

DAP’s Chicago analytics team can help professional service providers all over the world deploy analytics architecture to: 

  • Track Project Data from Multiple Sources. No more jumping from dashboard to dashboard, no more busy-work compiling data into a coherent form. All your project data in one convenient location. 
  • Guide Business Decisions Based on KPIs. Determine which KPIs make the most difference, then develop a strategy of how to influence them.
  • United Data Reporting into One Platform. Visually-rich, user friendly, suitable for employees and clients. 

Any professional services vendor who relies on guesswork is at a critical disadvantage. Agencies that use data as their guide can right their revenue flow and turn it into a well-oiled machine.

Advances in biotech save and lengthen lives. Advances in biotech also depend on data, which means lives depend on the data collected by the biotech industry. As thought leaders in biotech data and marketing for years, DAP takes a special interest in the development of data architecture for disruptive biotech innovators. 

Proper use of data analytics in biotechnology enables faster access to key insights, speeding up research studies and breakthroughs without incurring additional risk. This applies to research on new drugs and vaccines, new medical devices, and cutting edge practices like stem cell work and gene therapy. 

Biotech companies face heavy regulatory burdens in the pursuit of life-saving innovations. DAP’s Chicago analytics team helps these enterprises meet those burdens with orderly, accurate data reporting solutions that allow them to focus on their live-saving missions. 

DAP’s analytics solutions help biotech industry leaders: 

  • Understand Customer Journeys. Gain a deeper understanding into how your potential customers are interacting with your brand, and what you can do to better encourage conversion.
  • Identify Process Inefficiencies. Obtain insight into potential improvements in your digital process that could boost efficiency and create savings.
  • Get Insights Faster. Streamline data analysis to deliver actionable insights on a faster timeline that can inform future decisions.

DAP has unique experience developing sophisticated analytics solutions for precision medicine, clinical development, biology, chemistry, and screening.

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We’re Experienced.

No Chicago analytics team has the experience and depth of talent of DAP. Our team includes thought-leaders in analytics dating back to the earliest days of online data collection. They know the history of analytics, understand the present state of data collection, and have an eye on its future.

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We’re On-Time and On-Budget.

We know how hard it is to work with vendors that promise the world and don’t deliver. We stand by our estimates and commit ourselves to avoiding delays and cost overruns. If we tell you how much and how long, you know those are figures you can count on.

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We’re Award-Winning.

Our Chicago analytics experts have received numerous local, national, and international accolades for their expertise in data collection and interpretation. We don’t like to brag, but if you want to work with the best, the proof is right there on our trophy mantle.

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We’re Focused on the Future.

Data is a fast-moving industry. What works today won’t necessarily work tomorrow. In addition to understanding what analytics have been in the past and are today, we focus like lasers on where data analytics are going.

Our Analytics Work

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Athenahealth

  • 140% increase in revenue-to-date
  • 40% increase in app engagement
  • 36% increase in surveys taken by the 2M+ doctors
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Technology

Dickson

  • 10% increase in total leads YoY
  • 18% reduction in bounce rate
  • 71% increase in email click-through rate
  • 3x increase in form conversion rate
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E-commerce

Frommer’s

  • 5.2X improvement in time on site
  • 39% increase in effective Cost Per Thousand Impressions (eCPM) revenue
  • 200K subscribers receive the newly optimized email campaign
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Telecommunication

Sigos

  • Redesigned client’s website in less than 90 days
  • Improved lead generation across desktop and mobile
  • Strengthened SEO rankings for key services
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Technology

mindSHIFT

  • 300% increase in lead generation through a successful A/B test on the client’s product detail page
  • 25% increase in "request a quote" leads within one month of redesign launch
  • 31% increase in quote to sales ratio after the design overhaul
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AIVA

  • 39% of all users at least doubled their click through with newly built notification system
  • Built an innovative AI-driven app
  • Used A/B tests to overhaul UI/UX and determine the experience which led to the highest conversion rate
  • Validated market adoption pre-launch
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Data-Driven Strategy

DAP didn’t build a world-class Chicago analytics team based on lucky guesses, and your organization won’t rely on lucky guesses either if we have anything to say about it. Data doesn’t lie—reliable analytics tell you what your customers are doing, how your software or website is working. We rely on data, and we have the experience and expertise to put data on your side as well.

We start with an audit of your current analytics architecture, then present a detailed report of recommendations of needed features, current user behavior, areas for possible testing, and suggested event taxonomies. The goal of our Chicago analytics services is to give you an unvarnished, no-nonsense report of where you stand, and where you could go by tracking the right analytics.

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Laser-focused on UX

Data is great, but let’s not forget why we’re collecting all of this data. When properly executed, good data analytics tell you how your users are interacting with your site. User behavior can help identify problem areas, as well as successful elements to replicate.

Do visitors tend to bounce back quickly from one page? How can the UX be improved to keep them there? Spend a long time on another page? What is working that can be duplicated? No one is clicking on the CTA? How can it be improved? Every data point DAP’s Chicago analytics team collects plays a role in strategizing for the improvement of UX.

Detailed Testing

There’s an art and a science to running tests and interpreting the analytics. Many organizations get it wrong, which is a shame because it’s indispensable. Deploying and testing features is the only way to get user feedback and determine if the features are working. Analytics gather that feedback without you having to look over the shoulder of every user.

DAP’s Chicago analytics team devises and deploys focused A/B and multivariate tests to identify the most effective user journey. We identify bottlenecks, eliminate friction, and present you with a validated UI that puts you far ahead of your competition.

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Customized Reporting

Generally speaking, the more data you gather, the more reliable the results. So how do you make sense of a vast collection of data and extract coherent results? Business intelligence is the tech sector aimed at deriving actionable solutions from huge data sets.

DAP’s Chicago analytics team consists of experts in the field of business intelligence. We use cutting-edge BI methods to produce detailed, user-friendly, interactive analytics reports full of news you can use.

Ongoing Support

Once the strategy is in place and the analytics installed, the work is only beginning. Collecting and interpreting data is an ongoing process, and DAP’s Chicago analytics team is with you every step of the way. There’s always room for improvement, and we help you find it.

Our ongoing support for your analytics strategy includes continuous monitoring and periodic reporting on the data collected, as well as of the analytics architecture itself. We’re here to fix problems, add features, and adapt your analytics strategy to ongoing needs. We help you turn data-collection failures into successes, and build on your current successes to safeguard tomorrow’s prosperity.

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