Software used for a targeted data-mining method of campaigning should be adopted by the Liberal Party nationally to help produce electoral success, according to its regional organisations in South Australia and Victoria.

The i360 program software is credited with helping to deliver victories for Donald Trump in key swing states in the 2016 US election and also for the South Australian Liberals in last month's state election.

It uses information gathered from various sources that, once fed into a algorithm, can indicate which voters can be targeted in marginal seats.

It will be used by Victorian Liberals ahead of the state election in November, with Queensland party chiefs also keen to adopt the method, according to The Australian.

"The Liberal Party focused on a number of new initiatives in the SA election including a new ground strategy, new data-driven campaign and new technologies including the i360 platform," said party director Sascha Meldrum.

"We have embraced modern technology in campaigning ... this is critical to develop policies that tackle key issues and are able to clearly communicate with individual voters."

Insiders say the South Australian Liberal Party's use of i360 - the first use outside the US - was critical in defeating Labor for the first time in 16 years and they intend to use it in the 2022 state elections, the report says.

"Labor and the union movement have been pretty good at embracing some of the US Democratic Party's capacities, so those in the South Australian Liberal Party decided they were going to do that on the centre-right, and it looks like all the other (Liberal) divisions are going to follow suit," a senior party source told the paper.

"The federal party has not decided yet whether to use i360 for the next federal election but they are looking at it very closely and the thinking is they will -- it is a really powerful tool."

"We'd much rather spend $10 on a swinging voter than $1 on a strong Lib," an SA Liberal source was quoted as saying.

"i360 creates the ability, in a seat of 25,000 people, based on a whole lot of data, to accurately say these are the 1000 people in that seat who you need to concentrate on."