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How Macy's does Mobile: Deepening Retail Engagement with Salesforce
Yasir Anwar, GVP, Macys.com & Bloomingdales.com
@yasiranwar79
Margaret Francis
Senior Director Product Management [email protected]@margaretfrancis
Retail@
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• Introductions
• Business Challenges: Retail Innovation in an Omnichannel World
• The Mobile Imperative
• The Innovation Challenge
• The Customer Centered Future
• Q & A
How Macy’s Does Mobile: Deepening Engagement with Salesforce
Agenda
Introductions
• Founder of Macy’s Labs
• Formerly Director of Engineering with WalMart Labs
• Passion for innovation & entrepreneurship- from inside the enterprise
• Experience building delivery teams
• Experience building great products
• Launched multiple consumer facing products, both new product and business transformation initiatives
• Look for him on Twitter @yasiranwar79
• Recent Sponsor of the AT&T Hackathon
• Upcoming attendee at the Grace Hopper event for women in technology
GVP, All Customer Applications & Platforms @ Macys.com & Bloomingdales.com
Yasir Anwar
Macy's is the largest department store and the 14th largest retailer in the US by sales
Macy's operates both the Macy's and Bloomingdale’s brands, and generated $27.9 billion in sales in 2014, with 800+ stores globally and 170,000+ employees
The Macys.com division operates Macy’s digital experiences, including web, mobile, and exploring the next generation of engagement with customers
Macy’s: Storied Brand, Leading Retailer
Macy’s was awarded
2014 Mobile Retailer
of the Year
Business Challenges
• Consumer shift to mobile
• Better omnichannel customer experiences
• Increasing customer satisfaction and deepening engagement
• Improving business agility to keep up customer & market trends
• Driving online revenue growth
Retail Innovation in an Evolving Industry
The Mobile Imperative
Shopping is MultiChannel
http://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/multiscreenworld_final.pdf
The Mobile First World is Here
Desktop49%
Mobile51%
Users Spend More Time on Mobilethan Desktop
comScore Media Metrix Multi-Platform Total Desktop Audience and Mobile Audience
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/11549615/Google-search-
overhaul-could-cause-Mobilegeddon.html
Macy’s Mobile Responsive Ecommerce Experiences
• m.macys.com & m.bloomingdales.com
• No brochureware; mobile ecommerce properties
• Omnichannel integrations including Buy Online, Pickup in Store; My Wallet; Push notifications for sales and promotions
Awarded 2014 Mobile
Retailer of the Year
Integrate with Back End Systems Via Unified Services Layer
Business Agility with Customer Engagement Apps on Heroku
Macys.com
(Node.js)
Bloomingdales.com
(Node.js)
Inventory Systems
(Domain Services)
Product Catalog
(Domain Services)
Payments
(Domain Services)
Customer Data
(Domain Services)
Experimentation
Framework (Java)
macysbackstage.com
Un
ifie
d A
PI
Ma
na
ge
me
nt
(Ja
va
) Macy’s
Back End
Systems
Where We Started
Macy’s Journey on Heroku
Where We Are Now
• Mission critical, highly strategic, revenue generating properties
• Small applications and services, nonmission-critical applications
• Leveraging Heroku to meet peak annual traffic levels on Thanksgiving, Black Friday & Cyber Monday
• Limited volumes of traffic
• Platform for retail innovation, customer engagement apps, internal services and emerging concepts
• Experimental services for new apps
The True Test for Scalability: Black Friday & Cyber Monday
• Thanksgiving Day 2014: First day that smartphones and tablets
accounted for majority (52.1%) of all online traffic
• 9.5 % YOY growth in internet traffic from mobile devices
• Mobile devices accounted for one-in-four of all online purchases
The Innovation Challenge
Customer Behavior
Innovate with the customer
How do we build an innovation culture that is focused on:
Output
Outcome
Culture
The strategy: “More, Better, Faster!”
…in doing so, we’re:
Developed a methodology to evaluate, prioritize, and productionalize some of the
millions of good ideas that we have within the company
Candidate
Vendor
Employee
Idea Lab
Lean Dev Teams
| TEST a Hypothesis |
| SMALL Empowered teams |
| CUSTOMER @ the center of decisions |
| MINUMUM Viable product |
| QUICK Build-Measure-Learn cycles |
| Eliminate WASTE |
The Journey
Pitch made to EC | Feb 2013
First Idea challenge published | March 2013
Kicked off first Idea lab | April 2013
Till now | 20 ideas built via Idea Lab
Launched to production | 12 ideas
The Impact: More Better Faster
Ideation to working code| 9 months to to 2 ½ Weeks
Ideation to production| 12 months to 1 month
Average feature cost| reduced to ½
2 Lean Dev Team in 2014| 10 Lean Dev Teams in 2015
the
sandbox VENDOR i-Challenge
sourcing
testing
scaling
How it all works together
Domains
MacysLabs
The Customer Centered Future
• Buy online, pick up in store
• Digital Coupon Wallets
• Virtual fitting room events
• Digital signage in stores
• Mobile navigation
• iBeacons
• Thanksgiving Parade App
• Star Gifts
• Believe-o-Magic (App for Kids)
• Visual search (mobile app)
Macy’s Continues to Drive Omnichannel Retail Innovation
Q & A
The flexibility and scalability of Heroku
enabled Macy’s to test, learn, and move
forward quickly with their ideas.
Macy’s built an experience that makes
shopping more convenient and fun for
their customers.
“Heroku gives us a powerful, flexible platform that enables us to test, learn
and proceed aggressively with new mobile ideas that excite our customers, making shopping more convenient and
fun.”
– Shawn L. Morrissey, VP, Mobile Engineering, Macys.com & Bloomingdales.com
Macy's sought greater innovation and agility for their online business and built a
shopping experience on Heroku that grows with their customers.
heroku.com/customers/LEARN MORE AT: macysC L O U D A P P L I C A T I O N P L A T F O R M
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