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Daya Reddy

2004-06-26, 10:49 am

Folks

We need to verify if Commerce Server can support any form of Split (A/B)
testing , using custom extensions or 3rd part partner products that extend
Server capabilities.

A/B Split Testing is a process to test mutilple campaigns simultaneously
targetted to different sets of customers , without each individual set
viewing the others campaigns. This process

See this link for more details...
http://www.vertster.com/testing.asp

Please let me know if you'd had any experience implementing this using
Commerce Server with custom extensions or 3rd part campaign manager
intergrating and extending CS functionality

Any feedback will be appreciated

TIA
Daya


Andy Xu[MSFT]

2004-06-28, 7:29 pm

Daya,

Unfortunately, I haven't used split testing before and given the limited information from the web site you mentioned, I am not sure we can support that.

But, it seems to me what you wanted to can be achieved by using commerce server. Basically, you can utilize the target group idea: create different target groups from different individual groups. And then for all
the advertisements which are supposed to be tested by a certain individual group, you can set those ads' requiring the target group mapping to that individual groups.

HTH,
Andy Xu [MSFT]
Commerce Server Team
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Folks

We need to verify if Commerce Server can support any form of Split (A/B)
testing , using custom extensions or 3rd part partner products that extend
Server capabilities.

A/B Split Testing is a process to test mutilple campaigns simultaneously
targetted to different sets of customers , without each individual set
viewing the others campaigns. This process

See this link for more details...
http://www.vertster.com/testing.asp

Please let me know if you'd had any experience implementing this using
Commerce Server with custom extensions or 3rd part campaign manager
intergrating and extending CS functionality

Any feedback will be appreciated

TIA
Daya




Daya Reddy

2004-06-29, 8:57 am

Andy

Thanks for your response.

You can find more information and a use case in the following product sheet

The idea is to run campaigns simultaneously to evaluate the effectiveness of
each campaign, its a marketing tool/procedure that getting prevelant for
ecommerce site.

We've configured multiple campaign items to run in paraller, based on target
groups, but the problem is these ads are served to the same customer, which
shouldnt be the case in this kind of testing.

We're also exploring the concept of adding campaign item ids to user profile
as custom attributes. Build a custom interface to assign users to campaign
items and then do targetting based on that attribute. That may work well for
registered users, and im not sure how far easy it is to build some kind of
custom assignment/management interface.

Also we're not sure how we can apply the same concept to non registered
users.

Please chime in with any ideas. Would be much appreciated ....

TIA
Daya

"Andy Xu[MSFT]" <andyxu@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Daya,
>
> Unfortunately, I haven't used split testing before and given the limited

information from the web site you mentioned, I am not sure we can support
that.
>
> But, it seems to me what you wanted to can be achieved by using commerce

server. Basically, you can utilize the target group idea: create different
target groups from different individual groups. And then for all
> the advertisements which are supposed to be tested by a certain individual

group, you can set those ads' requiring the target group mapping to that
individual groups.
>
> HTH,
> Andy Xu [MSFT]
> Commerce Server Team
> --
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no

rights. Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at
http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm
>
> Note: For the benefit of the community-at-large, all responses to this

message are best directed to the newsgroup/thread from which they
originated.
> --------------------
> From: "Daya Reddy" <dreddy@porteck.com>
> Subject: Split Testing (Multiple Campaing Tests)
> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:45:59 -0400
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>
> Folks
>
> We need to verify if Commerce Server can support any form of Split (A/B)
> testing , using custom extensions or 3rd part partner products that extend
> Server capabilities.
>
> A/B Split Testing is a process to test mutilple campaigns simultaneously
> targetted to different sets of customers , without each individual set
> viewing the others campaigns. This process
>
> See this link for more details...
> http://www.vertster.com/testing.asp
>
> Please let me know if you'd had any experience implementing this using
> Commerce Server with custom extensions or 3rd part campaign manager
> intergrating and extending CS functionality
>
> Any feedback will be appreciated
>
> TIA
> Daya
>
>
>
>



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