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Actuaries are accustomed to modeling products and policies.
CRM requires modeling customer relationships and actuaries need new tools and thinking in order to achieve a strong understanding of the financial value that current and potential customers represent to their company. At the conclusion of this session, participants learn state of the art modeling techniques and which CRM strategies promise the highest return. This session is designed for attendees who have no to moderate experience with the subject. A powerful and flexible public domain scripting language, Perl is particularly useful in parsing large text files and therefore ideal for populating and extracting information from a web page. Panelists describe the mechanics, advantages, and disadvantages of these languages.