mySolutions
HCL Unica+

Marketing operations that scale past the spreadsheet.

HCL Unica gives you enterprise campaign orchestration: segment, automate, personalise and measure across channels, with POPIA consent handling built into the platform, not bolted on at the end.

2B+ Real-time sessions per month at a global banking group on Unica Interact
1B+ Annual interactions through centralised offer decisioning at a North American financial institution
45M+ Personalised interactions per month at a leading Asian financial services group
3x Average lift in offer acceptance with MaxAI next-best-action decisioning. All figures from HCL published case studies.
Unica · journey performance Live
Active journeys
18
CPA change
−34%
Consented base
1.2m
Email41%
SMS29%
In-app18%
Outbound9%
Direct mail3%
Illustrative view · not client data
The problem

Your campaigns are limited by how fast someone can export a list.

The strategy is not the bottleneck. The bottleneck is the manual pipeline between the data team, the campaign team, and the channel platforms.

List requests in a queue

Every campaign starts with a data request, so timing is dictated by someone else’s backlog.

Consent handled late

POPIA opt-out states are reconciled after the fact, which is exactly when it becomes a risk.

Channels in silos

Email, SMS, and in-app are planned separately, so customers get three uncoordinated messages.

No honest attribution

Reporting shows channel activity, not what the journey actually contributed.

Twelve modules. Licence what you need, add more as you scale.

HCL Unica+ is a modular platform. Clients licence the modules they need and add more as they scale. Each module is production-proven at enterprise scale. Interact is a key anchor: mySolutions is actively implementing it for a South African enterprise client.

01

Campaign

Precision targeting · batch & multi-wave

Advanced customer segmentation and multi-channel, multi-wave batch execution, with a drag-and-drop flowchart designer and MaxAI-assisted campaign creation from natural language.

10-50% response uplift · 25-50% faster build
02

Interact

Real-time personalisation · next-best-action

Next-best-action decisioning that serves the right offer in milliseconds at any inbound touchpoint: website, mobile app, call centre, ATM or kiosk. mySolutions is actively implementing Interact for a South African enterprise client.

Active SA implementation · 3x average lift · 45M+ interactions/month
03

Optimize

Contact optimisation · POPIA enforcement

Mathematical optimisation across all campaigns simultaneously. Prevents over-contacting, channel conflicts and cannibalisation, and enforces opt-out and DNC policy automatically across every campaign and channel.

8-12.5% uplift over best alternative · automatic POPIA compliance
04

Journey

Goal-based, adaptive orchestration

Goal-based journey orchestration that adapts in real time to what customers actually do. AI-enabled journey creation, with triggered journeys replacing monthly batch scheduling.

Real-time path adjustment · AI journey creation
05

Deliver

Omnichannel messaging

Personalised messaging at scale across all digital channels, triggered automatically by real-time decisions from Interact or by journey milestones.

Email · SMS · WhatsApp · Push · RCS
06

Plan

Marketing resource management

End-to-end planning, budgeting, asset management and approval workflows in one workspace, tied directly to Campaign execution metadata.

Budget visibility · faster time to market
07

Link

Low-code integrations

Pre-built connectors for Mailchimp, Twilio, Salesforce, Facebook Ads and LinkedIn Ads. Marketers add a Link step to any Campaign flowchart with no custom development.

Connects channels you already own · no dev tickets
08

COM

Centralised offer management

A single approved offer catalogue used across campaigns, journeys and real-time interactions. Ensures eligibility consistency and version control across all teams.

Offer governance · cross-channel consistency
09

Discover

Behavioural insights

Analytics into the full online user journey: clickstreams, session behaviour, drop-off points and conversion paths. Feeds better segmentation and real-time decisioning.

Session analytics · conversion optimisation
10

Collaborate

Last-mile marketing

Enables branches, stores and franchisees to execute and localise centrally managed campaigns within approved boundaries. Brand control with local relevance.

Branch and store marketing · franchise execution
11

Insights

On-demand reporting

Pre-built and custom performance reports across campaigns, journeys, offers and channels. A single source of truth for ROI and budget accountability.

Campaign ROI · executive dashboards
12

Director

Deployment monitoring

A central console for managing multiple Unica deployments across regions and business units. Real-time visibility into platform health and campaign throughput.

Multi-deployment management · operational visibility
Implementation

Enterprise implementation, done properly.

Unica+ is not a two-week SaaS activation. We scope every deployment around your data, your channels, and your team’s capacity. Most clients run their first live campaigns within 3 to 6 months and expand module by module over the following 12 to 24 months. We build alongside your team so they own the platform, not us.

Campaign · batch only

3 to 6 months for a standard implementation.

Interact · real-time personalisation

9 to 18 months. mySolutions is currently implementing Interact for a South African client, approaching month 12.

Full Unica+ suite

12 to 36 months across a phased, multi-module programme.

Every module

Integrated with your CRM, data warehouse, consent registers and channel platforms.

Who buys this

Built for teams past the point a spreadsheet can carry.

Unica+ is designed for organisations running high campaign volumes, complex eligibility rules or multi-channel journeys. The right fit is typically a marketing team managing 500,000+ customer interactions per month, across multiple product lines, with real-time channel requirements.

CMO / Chief Marketing Officer VP Marketing Operations Head of Digital Marketing IT Director / CTO Chief Data Officer Head of Martech / Marketing Technology
Embedded AI

MaxAI, the embedded AI engine

MaxAI runs natively across Campaign, Interact, Journey, Deliver and Optimize. Every recommendation operates within the business rules and guardrails your marketing team sets. With Unica+ 26.1, MaxAI can be deployed entirely on-premises using enterprise LLMs, so for regulated industries such as banking, insurance and government the AI layer never touches a public cloud.

AI-assisted campaign design

Interprets natural language and suggests flowcharts based on historical performance.

Next-best-action decisioning

Serves the right offer in milliseconds at any inbound touchpoint.

Propensity & look-alike modelling

Product propensity and look-alike audiences built from your own customer data.

Send time optimisation

Optimised per individual customer, based on engagement history.

Live performance recommendations

Surfaces issues while the campaign is still running.

On-premises LLM support

Unica+ 26.1 runs full AI capability within your own data centre, with no cloud dependency.

Deployment options

Run it where your regulator is comfortable.

On-premises

Full control within your own data centre, with full feature parity with cloud, including on-premises MaxAI LLMs (Unica+ 26.1). Preferred by banks, insurers and government.

Private cloud

A dedicated cloud environment with no shared infrastructure. Combines flexibility with enterprise governance.

SaaS / public cloud

HCL-managed with the fastest time to value. Suitable where data residency requirements allow.

Hybrid

Mix on-premises and cloud to match regulatory and operational requirements. Data can remain on-prem while processing scales in cloud.

For South African regulated industries such as banks, insurers and healthcare, on-premises or hybrid is typically required for POPIA data residency and SARB/PA regulatory alignment.

Questions we get asked first

Unica+ is designed for organisations running high campaign volumes, complex eligibility rules, or multi-channel journeys that cannot be managed in a spreadsheet or basic email tool. The right fit is typically a marketing team managing 500,000+ customer interactions per month, across multiple product lines, with real-time channel requirements. If a client sends a handful of batch emails per month, we will tell them it is over-specified.

POPIA compliance is managed at the platform level through Unica Optimize and the consent management framework. Opt-out states, DNC lists, and channel-specific consent preferences are enforced automatically across every campaign and journey before any message is sent. A customer who opts out of SMS cannot be contacted via SMS by any campaign, regardless of which team built it. Consent is enforced in real time, not reconciled after the fact.

Unica+ supports four deployment models: on-premises (within your own data centre, including on-premises AI via MaxAI), private cloud (dedicated tenancy), SaaS or public cloud (HCL-managed), and hybrid (a mix of on-prem and cloud). For South African banks, insurers, and government entities, on-premises or hybrid deployment is the norm given POPIA data residency requirements and SARB/PA regulatory obligations.

mySolutions’ certified Unica consultants lead the initial implementation alongside your marketing and IT teams. The goal is to build capability in-house: your team participates in every build so they can create, edit, and deploy journeys themselves after the initial implementation phase. mySolutions provides ongoing support, but the objective is platform ownership, not dependency on us for every change.

It depends on which modules are in scope. Campaign (batch) implementations typically run 3 to 6 months. Interact (real-time personalisation) typically runs 9 to 18 months. A full multi-module programme runs 12 to 36 months in phases. mySolutions scopes each project individually and will not provide a timeline until we have assessed your data environment, channel integrations, and team capacity.

Bring your slowest campaign. We will show you it as an automated journey.

Thirty minutes with a certified Unica consultant, not a licence salesperson. We will map your current process, show you what it looks like in Unica, and tell you honestly whether it is the right fit.