Future Proofing your Marketing Automation: Build vs Buy
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N O V E M B E R 2 0 1 6
FUTURE-PROOFINGYOUR MARKETING AUTOMATION
APPBOY IS BEST-IN-CLASS FOR BOTH ENGINEERS AND MARKETERS
• Easy-to-use, robust, and flexible
• Massive scale and reliability
• No additional tech debt
• Continuously improving and ahead of the market
• Powerful tools and APIs to integrate within your stack
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TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR ENGINEERING FOCUS • Real-time segmentation and message triggering
• UI designed for independent marketing use
• Canvas, a premier cross-channel visual journey editor
• Re-engagement and personalization filters
• Enterprise-grade features built for global scalability
• Advanced interoperability with other systems and tools
APPBOY MARKETING CHANNELSYOUR SYSTEMS
APPBOY IS THE LEADING LIFECYCLE ENGAGEMENT & AUTOMATION PLATFORM
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BUY APPBOY BUILD YOUR OWN THE BOTTOM LINE
INITIAL COST Your annual contract value+ initial set-up dev time
$K, FIRST YEAR X ENGINEERS @ $YK, X PM @ $YK
Keep engineer focus, time, and resources on product development.
AVAILABILITY Now Months Start marketing campaigns immediately after implementation.
HOSTING & INFRASTRUCTURE
Realtime, highly-scalable SaaS infrastructure & CDN included
$$$$ Appboy scales to meet your needs, and our CDN ensures global performance.
SUPPORT FOR ISSUES World-class Customer Success team Your responsibilityHit the ground running with the same expert guidance serving thousands of
marketers worldwide.
USER INTERFACE Designed for marketers by a dedicated UX team
As good as your best designer on this project—or as bad as your worst
Empower marketers to act with confidence. They won’t need to rely on
engineering for help.
MAINTENANCE & ENHANCEMENTS
Appboy’s engineering team is always innovating in a fast-paced industry
Homegrown platforms often don’t evolve beyond initial launch & quickly fall behind
industry changes
Let us help future-proofyour mobile marketing.
EXISTING FUNCTIONALITY
World-class cross-channelmarketing automation tool
Queued alongside all your other high-priority engineering projects
We power a flexible, scalable, high-performing platform that has helped
boost ROI for brands worldwide.
LET US HANDLE THE EVOLVING WORLD OF LIFECYCLE MARKETING
With Appboy, your marketers gain the independence to:
• Uncouple message design and flow from triggering events
• Easily A/B test messaging and user journey across channels
• Support new OS features with minimal engineering effort
• Empower marketing to define their own audiences, without complex DB pulls
… unleash their messaging creativity, with less reliance on engineering time.
TRIM YOUR PRODUCT BACKLOG
Build tools that will further elevate your product alongside Appboy:
• Create services for advanced personalization and recommendations
• Design rich HTML In-App Message templates
• Tag new events and attributes for messaging and segmentation
• Incorporate Appboy’s valuable engagement data into your BI stack
… let our scale and cross-channel messaging capabilities bolster your marketing.
STRONG ENGINEERING ENHANCES MESSAGING
BUILD CORE PRODUCT FEATURES
Improve efficiency by using Appboy for API-driven transactional message delivery:
• Communicate through a robust set of transactional message APIs
• Define audiences programmatically in message send API requests
• View results directly in the Appboy dashboard, or retrieve them by API
… build and implement easier ways to communicate with customers!
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TECHNICALOVERVIEW
SDK: SMALL SIZE, SECURE, SENSITIVE TO DEVICE ENVIRONMENT Size: Android: ~800KB ; iOS: 1.2MB; Web: 17KB zipped Security: Read only, penetration-tested by third party Safety: Complete control of custom data collection Sensitivity: Assesses battery and data quality before sending data
PREDICTABLE RELEASES Android, iOS, Web: ~2 months + any critical fix / major OS updates Public Status: http://status.appboy.com/ | 99.5% SLA, 99.99%+ uptime
FULLY DOCUMENTED Documentation: Implementation & technical specs http://documentation.appboy.com - the grey box under the nav has platform-specific links Github https://github.com/Appboy Academy: Dashboard user manual http://academy.appboy.com
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DATA SOURCES
TRIGGER MESSAGING
TAGGED IN THE APPBOY SDK
SENT TO
OUR REST API
NOTIFY OTHER SYSTEMS
VIA WEBHOOKS
IN REAL-TIME, APPBOY
UPDATES SEGMENT MEMBERSHIP
DASHBOARD CSV IMPORT
“a”,”b”
REAL-TIME ACTION CROSS-CHANNEL MESSAGING
IF IT WAS AN EVENT, THAT EVENT CAN:
TRIGGER IMMEDIATE MESSAGES
QUEUE FUTURE MESSAGES
CANCEL MESSAGES (EXCEPTIONS)
RECORD CAMPAIGN RESULTS (CONVERSIONS)
MOVE AS FAST AS YOUR BEST IDEAS
PROCESS CUSTOMER DATA IN MILLISECONDS
• Personalize your messaging based on an external API request
• Parse the JSON-formatted results of the API call
• Join other Appboy customers in sending personalized recommendations, weather-based notifications, and more!
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CREATE CONTEXTUAL EXPERIENCES WITH APPBOY’S CONNECTED CONTENT
USE COMPLEX DATA TO STRENGTHEN MESSAGING ACROSS CHANNELS
Provide a JSON object with order details and the desired recipient list from your backend. Define an audience by external user ID or Connected Audience ad-hoc segment.
Design the template in your dashboard ahead of time.
Use Liquid to personalize and use control structures.
Appboy combines everything at send time:
• The request JSON payload
• Personalization based on the targeted user profile(s)
• External API responses using connected_content
LAUNCH ROBUST, API-TRIGGERED CAMPAIGNS
APPBOY CAN LAUNCH CAMPAIGNS ON COMMAND, ACROSS CHANNELS, USING TRANSACTIONAL DATA FROM YOUR BACKEND.
More Dashboard Control More API Control
SCHEDULED MESSAGING EVENT-TRIGGERED MESSAGING API-TRIGGERED MESSAGING API CAMPAIGNS
COMPOSITION In Appboy dashboardIn Appboy dashboard
In API requestIn API request
PERSONALIZATION User profile attributesUser profile attributes
Event propertiesUser profile attributes API trigger properties
TRIGGERING At scheduled time(s)Events from any source
(SDK, User Track API)API request
SEND TIMINGSend now or up to 2 weeks in the future
Recurrence optionalSend now or up to 2 weeks in the future Send now
Send now or up to 2 weeks in the future Recurrence optional
AUDIENCE Existing Segments & filters Existing Segments & filtersSpecific User IDs
Existing Segments (by Segment ID) Ad-hoc Connected Audience in request
Specific User IDs Existing Segments (by Segment ID)
Ad-hoc Connected Audience in request
RESULTSIn Appboy dashboard
& Available by API
BOTTOM LINERecurring & one-time sends(e.g. birthdays, newsletters)
Contextually relevant to your customer behavior, using existing Event structure
Trigger by API, including complex JSON metadata
Create an entire campaign by API, consume results in Appboy’s UI
ENABLE FLEXIBLE MESSAGE DELIVERY WITH OUR STACK-FRIENDLY PLATFORM