Prepared by Adobe for Penske Transportation Solutions

Beyond product analytics. Toward business outcomes.

Pendo and Amplitude tell you what happens inside an application. Penske's growth happens across rentals, leasing, logistics, sales, and service. Adobe Customer Journey Analytics connects all of it.

Proven at scale

Customer Journey Analytics is trusted by the leading brands.

Enterprises across sports, finance, technology, travel, and healthcare rely on CJA to connect experience data to business outcomes.

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The strategic reframe

Penske's challenge is larger than product analytics.

Many organizations begin an analytics evaluation by comparing product analytics platforms. Those tools are valuable — but for Penske, product interactions are only one component of a much larger customer and account relationship. The evaluation should start from a different question.

The common question
"How are users interacting with our products?"
The strategic question
"How do product interactions influence acquisition, account growth, contract value, retention, and revenue across Penske?"
Three platforms. Three different problems.

Amplitude and Pendo optimize the product. CJA connects the business.

Each of these platforms is strong at what it was built for. The difference is scope — and for Penske's model, scope is the whole point.

Amplitude
Product optimization
  • Feature adoption & funnels
  • Retention & product-led growth
  • User journeys within the app
  • Product experimentation
AnswersWhat happened inside the application?
Pendo
Product adoption
  • In-app guidance & tours
  • User onboarding & tooltips
  • Surveys & feedback collection
  • Adoption measurement
AnswersHow do we help users adopt product capabilities?
Customer Journey Analytics
Business outcome intelligence
  • Product + web + mobile engagement
  • CRM, marketing & call center activity
  • Rental, leasing & logistics data
  • Opportunity progression & revenue
AnswersHow does product engagement influence customer and business outcomes?
Key business questions answered

Move the conversation from features to business questions.

The most useful lens isn't a feature checklist — it's the questions each platform is built to answer. Amplitude and Pendo answer product questions. CJA answers business questions that include product behavior as one component of the larger customer and account journey.

The customer, account & business intelligence platform — designed to answer
"How do customer and product experiences drive business outcomes?"

Customer & journey intelligence

  • Which customer journeys lead to truck rental conversion?
  • What mix of digital and offline interactions drives the highest conversion?
  • What friction points exist across customer journeys?
  • Which channels influence conversion, even without closing the sale?
  • What journeys lead to the highest retention rates?
  • What behaviors signal future customer value?

Product analytics & business impact

  • Which product features are most adopted?
  • Which features correlate with customer retention?
  • Which capabilities drive customer satisfaction?
  • Which products generate the greatest business value?
  • Which releases improved customer outcomes?
  • Which experiences influence future purchasing decisions?
  • Which behaviors correlate with account growth?

Rental business

  • What drives conversion from anonymous visitor to rental customer?
  • What mix of website, app, and call-center interactions produces the highest booking rates?
  • Which customer segments have the highest lifetime value?
  • What drives repeat rental behavior?
  • Which call-center interactions most influence conversion?

Leasing & logistics

  • Which rental customers are likely leasing candidates?
  • Which accounts show signals of expansion opportunity?
  • Which experiences contribute to renewal decisions?
  • What signals identify accounts at risk of churn?
  • Which services drive account growth?

Executive

  • How do product investments impact revenue outcomes?
  • What drives customer lifetime value?
  • Which experiences create measurable business value?
  • Where should we invest to improve retention?
  • Which segments generate the most profitable growth?

AI & self-service

  • Why did conversions decline last month?
  • Which customer segments are growing fastest?
  • Which products are underperforming?
  • What changed after a recent product release?
  • What factors contributed to an anomaly or trend?
The B2B revenue intelligence layer — designed to answer
"How do buying groups, customer journeys, and product engagement influence revenue?"

Buying group

  • Which stakeholders are actively engaged?
  • Which stakeholders are missing from opportunities?
  • Which committee members influence decisions most?
  • Which behaviors correlate with closed-won opportunities?

Account-based marketing

  • Which target accounts are most engaged?
  • Which accounts demonstrate purchase intent?
  • Which campaigns influence pipeline growth?
  • Which content accelerates account engagement?

Sales & revenue

  • Which opportunities are accelerating?
  • Which opportunities are stalling?
  • Which touchpoints influence deal progression?
  • Which stakeholders affect deal velocity?
  • Which engagement patterns correlate with higher win rates?

Product & customer health

  • Which accounts are not adopting products?
  • Which accounts are at risk of churn?
  • Which capabilities drive renewals?
  • Which releases drive account expansion?
  • Which customers represent cross-sell opportunities?

Revenue leadership

  • Which marketing programs contribute to pipeline?
  • Which sales and marketing activities create revenue?
  • Which accounts are most likely to grow?
  • What drives account retention?
  • How do product experiences impact customer lifetime value?
The product optimization platform — designed to answer
"How do users interact with our software product?"

Product usage

  • Which features are most used?
  • Which features are least used?
  • Which workflows create the highest engagement?
  • Which paths do users take through the application?
  • Which screens have the highest abandonment rates?

Product adoption

  • How quickly do users adopt a new feature?
  • Which segments adopt products most quickly?
  • Which features drive retention?
  • Which features contribute to churn?

Product management

  • What should we build next?
  • Which capabilities should we retire?
  • Where are users getting stuck?
  • How has usage changed after a release?

Product-led growth

  • What drives activation?
  • What drives retention?
  • What causes users to disengage?
  • What is the optimal onboarding flow?
The product & digital adoption platform — designed to answer
"How do we improve adoption and usage of our digital products?"

Adoption

  • Are users discovering new features?
  • Are users successfully onboarding?
  • Which users need guidance?
  • Which capabilities have low adoption?

Training

  • Do users need additional education?
  • Which workflows require walkthroughs?
  • Which features should be promoted in-app?

Feedback

  • What feedback are users providing?
  • What features are customers requesting?
  • What is sentiment regarding a new capability?
  • Which users should be surveyed?

Product rollout

  • Did the launch perform as expected?
  • Did onboarding improve adoption?
  • Are users completing guided tours?
  • Did feature announcements increase usage?

Product operations

  • How can we increase feature adoption?
  • Which users need additional support?
  • Which products create friction for new users?
Penske commercial trucks lined up at a distribution facility
Why Penske is different

The biggest opportunities happen outside the product.

Penske's revenue is driven by long-cycle leasing relationships, enterprise logistics contracts, commercial rentals, and cross-business relationships that span digital and offline environments. Traditional product analytics tools were never designed to connect those signals together.

Success requires visibility across the entire relationship — from first touch to renewed contract.

Prospects Buying committees Accounts Sales activities Product usage Operational engagement Revenue outcomes
Core CJA use cases for Penske

Eight ways CJA turns engagement into business impact.

From product usage to leasing relationships, each use case connects behavior to a measurable outcome across Penske's B2C and B2B lines.

1

Product usage to revenue analysis

Move beyond feature adoption. Understand which product behaviors in Fleet Insights, Genie, and AI Catalyst correlate with lease renewals, account growth, and retention.

CJA B2B
2

Product release impact

Go past "was the feature used?" to whether adoption improved satisfaction, reduced churn risk, increased account value, or accelerated sales opportunities.

CJA B2B
3

Customer health & retention

Combine product usage decline, reduced web engagement, marketing disengagement, and service patterns to flag retention risk before renewal conversations begin.

4

Buying group intelligence

Treat operations, procurement, finance, and executive sponsors as one buying group tied to one account and one opportunity — not fragmented, separate users.

CJA B2B
5

Rental-to-leasing intelligence

A uniquely Penske use case: unify rental transactions, CRM activity, and sales engagement to identify customers likely to move into higher-value leasing relationships.

6

Logistics account growth

Visualize multi-stakeholder, multi-channel account journeys and measure which experiences actually drive enterprise contract growth over long sales cycles.

CJA B2B
7

Omnichannel rental attribution

Follow customers across display, search, website, call center, mobile app, and physical locations — ingesting online and offline data sources together.

8

Data democratization

Reduce dependency on SQL-based workflows with self-service exploration and natural-language analysis — faster time-to-insight, fewer analyst bottlenecks.

What happens without a unified journey layer

Every team gets an answer. No one gets the whole picture.

Product teams understand usage. Marketing understands campaigns. Sales understands pipeline. Operations understands execution. But without CJA, there's no consistent way to see how those signals combine to drive growth.

Product usage stays disconnected from revenue outcomes.

Buying groups remain fragmented across systems.

Rental-to-leasing opportunities are harder to identify.

Customer health signals remain siloed.

Account journeys remain incomplete.

Product decisions optimize for usage, not business impact.

The open question no siloed tool can answer: what combination of interactions actually drives customer growth, retention, and revenue?
Customer proof points with CJA

Measurable results, from insight to impact.

Real outcomes CJA customers achieved by connecting experience data to business decisions.

$1,500
Saved per business question
An estimated $1,500 saved on each business question that would otherwise be routed to the data science team for manual analysis.
Microsoft
160 hrs
Saved in monthly analysis
Reduced operational cost to analyze disparate data sources and connect that data to clickstream activity — every month.
Red Hat
$8M / yr
Call center costs identified
Call volume driven by billing confusion was pinpointed in the data — costs that can now be addressed proactively with better messaging.
TELUS
6–8 wks
Now minutes, not weeks
Building customer personas from online and offline data now takes minutes instead of 6–8 weeks, then publishes to RT-CDP for personalization.
Lenovo
One relationship, measured end to end
From first rental to national account — CJA sees the whole journey.
Executive recommendation

The evaluation isn't CJA versus Pendo or Amplitude.

Pendo and Amplitude are strong solutions. For organizations focused exclusively on product adoption or product analytics, they may be sufficient. Penske's challenge is broader — so the real decision is a different one.

Not the question
Which product analytics tool is best?
The real decision
Product analytics alone — or a complete customer, account, and business intelligence platform that includes it?

For Penske's business model, Adobe Customer Journey Analytics and CJA B2B provide the broadest strategic value — purpose-built to unify product usage, customer engagement, account intelligence, and revenue outcomes across both B2C and B2B lines.