Clearcode builds 7suite to help AdTech and MarTech companies decrease their time to market and cut development costs.
The online marketing and advertising industries have seen an influx of software solutions over the past 10 years, and while these new tools and platforms allow marketers and advertisers to improve productivity, building them requires substantial technical resources, financial investments, and time.
For many marketing technology (MarTech) and advertising technology (AdTech) companies, building even the most necessary and basic features often means months of development and testing. This results in a slow time to market and expensive development projects.
As Clearcode is a full-service software development company that specializes in AdTech and MarTech development, we know and understand the needs and challenges that most AdTech and MarTech companies face.
Customization and scalable pricing make 7suite ideal for ad tech companies with multiple customers that need to easily integrate custom data-management tools into their larger technology stack.
Rohit Roy, Martech Advisor
Moreover, throughout our 8+ years of experience in designing and building advertising and marketing platforms, we’ve noticed a couple of things:
As a result, we decided to address these problems and build a stack consisting of data-management components, which we would then use as the building blocks in our current and future projects. This would allow us and our clients to avoid building data collection, data management, and activation components from scratch, therefore saving both development time and money.
The solution is known as 7suite.
7suite is a fully customizable data-management stack consisting of data collection, data management, and content-personalization components.
AdTech and MarTech companies can build upon 7suite’s ready-to-use components to create completely unique solutions that match the needs and goals of their business and differentiate themselves from the competition.
To enable AdTech and MarTech companies to collect data from various sources (web analytics tools, CRM systems, Ad Tech platforms, etc.), segment the data into audiences, activate the data (export the audience segments to AdTech platforms for media buying and to personalize web content), and build unique solutions that solve their business challenges.
The main challenges we faced included:
7suite comprises of three main components:
Tag management systems are used by advertisers and marketers to create, deploy, and manage various tags (small snippets of code that send data from a website to a piece of software, such as an analytics platform).
We built a tag-management system that would allow advertisers and marketers to easily and efficiently manage all their tags across all their websites.
This was the first component of 7suite we built, but instead of waiting for the other components to be built before releasing it, we decided to make it available to the public under an open-source license. The TMS was called 7tag.
This allowed us to gain direct feedback from initial users and make immediate improvements.
Some will say that 7tag is a great private, secure, clean and easy-to-use alternative to GTM. I would say that GTM is a strange alternative to 7tag. Thank you, Clearcode team!
Scott Fainstein, Digital Capabilities Engineer, The Encima Group
The data-management platform (DMP) is the key component of the 7suite stack and is responsible for a number of critical data-management functions, such as data analysis, audience segmentation, and profile building.
It is also the part that ties together data collection and activation.
The 7suite DMP is able to handle a number of key data-management functionalities, most of which are listed under the section 7suite’s Main Features.
There are a number of ways advertisers and marketers can activate the data in their DMP, but one of the most popular ways is to personalize content, which refers to personalizing the content on a website or dynamically changing ads based on certain targeting criteria.
The content personalization component of 7suite (known as 7ad) allows companies to utilize the data in the DMP to display different pieces of content and dynamic ads to users based on a set of predefined variables and audience segments.
Collect data about online user behavior, pull data from various platforms, combine and structure it into a common format, and match data from various channels.
Load images and HTML files as banner ads and popups, and serve them to the audiences defined by the 7suite DMP.
Build a single customer view (SCV) by merging data from various devices and sessions and connecting them with common identifiers (e.g. emails and login IDs).
Segment data based on a range of variables, export audience segments to The Trade Desk, AppNexus, and other demand-side platforms (DSPs).
Sync first-party cookies with a range of third-party platforms, such as demand-side platforms (DSP), supply-side platforms (SSP), ad exchanges, and various marketing-technology platforms.
Pull data about your visitors in real-time to power the decisioning process, content personalization & more.
As 7suite was intended to be a fully customizable solution, AdTech and MarTech companies can utilize 7suite’s components and APIs to build a range of custom solutions.
Some of 7suite’s possible use cases include:
There are a number of ways advertisers and marketers can activate the data in their DMP, but one of the most popular ways is to personalize content, which refers to personalizing the content on a website or dynamically changing ads based on certain targeting criteria.
The content personalization component of 7suite (known as 7ad) allows companies to utilize the data in the DMP to display different pieces of content and dynamic ads to users based on a set of predefined variables and audience segments.
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Download now!The three main keys to the success of 7suite were the following:
Building AdTech and MarTech solutions requires a certain amount of knowledge and skill that can only really be acquired through firsthand experience. As we’ve been building software for the online advertising and marketing industries for over seven years, our teams have the industry experience needed to avoid costly mistakes, maintain a high speed of development, and produce quality software.
One of the keys to any successful software project is open communication and close cooperation within the team, which is especially true during important crossover phases (e.g. when the design team hands over the project to the developers). The fact that our teams consist of all the necessary resources needed to plan, design, manage, build, and maintain AdTech and MarTech platforms is one of our strengths and played a key role in the success of 7suite.
7suite provides a content personalization engine that can leverage audience analytics to enhance content and messaging — ultimately aiming to increase engagement and conversions.
7suite provides data control and flexibility from a technology standpoint and pricing structure that other solutions lack. Customization and scalable pricing make 7suite ideal for ad tech companies with multiple customers that need to easily integrate custom data management tools into their larger technology stack.
Building and releasing the three main components one at a time allowed us to gain valuable feedback from our initial users and gain traction early on.
Also, as our teams applied agile methodologies to 7suite’s development, we were able to avoid potential obstacles, easily change the direction of the project when the situation called for it, quickly react to client feedback, and build a backlog of new features during the development phases.
In addition, our agile approach coupled with our incremental approach to software development enabled us to release new or improved features every two weeks, which allowed us to experience new successes on a regular basis.
7suite gained early interest from a number of AdTech and MarTech companies, which lead to us attracting our first clients.
In 2017, we decided to merge 7suite with our other startup venture, Piwik PRO. All of 7suite’s components are now offered under the Piwik PRO brand and make up the bulk of the Piwik PRO Marketing Suite.
The DMP in 7suite is focused on handling the customer company’s first-party data for profiles and segmentation, along with the ability to combine user data from website or Facebook behavior.
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