US MARTECH IN GDPR COMPLIANT LANDSCAPE PT.2

CAMPAIGN MANAGER & DMP

Who is the client?

A US based interactive marketing company focused on the music industry.

• Offers web platform that helps artists and other companies target online advertisements
• Works in different countries across the world
• Client has a lot of partnerships and integrations
• Offers feature-rich link shortener

Business problems to solve

• Increase profit
• Get new clients
• Integrate with key partners (partners wants to remain nameless at the moment)
• Improve targeting capabilities

To solve these problems, existing product needed improvement.
Whitelabel campaign manager replacement ( no access to source code for new integrations) , new API for external integrations with RTB exchange. DMP module to be built from scratch.

Solution

Process

• “Fixed price” model was used on the project. We fixed and agreed on the set requirements, timeline and cost.
• Project demos were held on a bi-weekly basis. This allowed us to get feedback instantly and to adjust the deliverables
• Weekly project status report helped our client to be aware of the completed tasks and plans for the next week.
• Quick, regular sync up calls with business analyst made the client feel more confident and helped our engineering team to clarify requirements without any interruption in development.

Programming stack

• Angular 5, TypeScript, HTML5, Sass, Node.js, npm, Angular CLI
• OpenJDK 1.8, Kotlin, Spring boot/data/web
• PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB
• Nginx, Tomcat
• Jenkins, Docker
• AWS (ES2, S3, SES, Route 53)

How did we solve the problems?

• Determined business process and elicited requirements
• Analyzed existing documents and UI
• Conducted interviews (including focus groups and surveys/questionnaires)
• Estimated efforts and costs
• Adapted existing business processes rather than creating from scratch
• Prototyped solution (mockups, wireframes)
• Created documentation in wiki system (Confluence)

Results

• Solid and scalable back-end was implemented
• UI became consistent and reliable
• Implicit flows became explicit
• Fault-tolerant system implemented
• Satisfied users and stakeholders

Next step?

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Author: Maxim Korotkov, Maxilect CEO
Editor: Tom Denman, Business Development Partner