Apteco document catalogue

Orbit is a JavaScript Web Application that deploys from a web server, runs in modern browsers. You can use Orbit on a variety of devices as it runs in a browser user interface. Orbit communicates with FastStats via the Orbit API.

This installation guide covers the five-stage installation process. The stages are:

• Prerequisites

• Information Required

• Orbit Installation

• Configuration

• Testing and Validation

Apteco Orbit installation

The Apteco Marketing Suite is a range of marketing data analysis & automation applications that supports easy analysis, visualisation, predictive modelling and campaign management with massive customer and prospect databases. The system has a multi-tier, web service architecture using a variety of client application technologies. The data processing is powered by the FastStats.NET Server which provides specialist marketing data analysis query capabilities. All data resides securely on the host system, and is only accessible to authenticated users

This document covers:

• Client applications

• FastStats.NET Web Service architecture

• Scalability

• Configurations overview

• Configuration

• Host capacity planning

• General notes on hardware specification

• User machine requirements

Technical requirements guide

The GDPR guide is intended for existing or potential users of Apteco Marketing Software. It outlines the powerful mechanisms within the Apteco software to comply with GDPR, with suggested Best Practice guidelines to help you on your way to GDPR compliance.

GDPR is all about Personal Data; you must understand and document what data you collect, where it’s collected, what happens to the data, and who has access. How a Data Subject’s personal information travels through your organisation, is called data flow. With the regulations, organisations are required to provide a detailed history of every step a piece of information makes within the organisation:

GDPR guide

This document brings together all the security considerations that are possible within a FastStats System

Please contact Apteco for more information about the contents of this document.

Security and privacy

This guide details the structure of the database so that it can be better understood for the purposes of better integration with any existing marketing machinery or inclusion in the build process of a FastStats System

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This guide describes how Apteco products are licenced.

Topics covered in this guide include:

• An overview of licensing

• How to install a licence

• Adding and Removing users

• Installing an updated licence

• Licence caching

• Licensing in FastStats Designer

• Troubleshooting

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PeopleStage SQL Maintenance Plan Guide

How to configure a SQL Server maintenance script to keep the underlying database performing correctly.

This document describes how to set up a maintenance plan for the SQL Server database used by PeopleStage to ensure that the database operates correctly day to day, month to month and year to year. The ability to create a maintenance plan is a feature of SQL Server, and allows for automatic backups to be scheduled as well as tasks such as rebuilding or reorganising indexes and other maintenance tasks.

SQL Server Express Edition does not support this feature

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A technical overview of the PeopleStage architecture and components

PeopleStage uses some of the same components as the rest of the suite of products, enabling it to share the same security, reliability and performance characteristics as FastStats, whilst containing some unique elements that provide the always-on marketing machinery that lies at the heart of PeopleStage.

• Architecture diagram

• The Life-cycle of a typical PeopleStage campaign

• Sequence diagram for publish to live process

• PeopleStage database structure

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This guide is now available in the PeopleStage help site, please see the PeopleStage archiving topic.

PeopleStage Archiving

This guide includes the following sections:

• Controlling when the records are archived

• Controlling which records are archived

• Broadcast Interaction History

• Considerations for Archiving

• Impact on Constraints

• Impact on Pools

• Impact on Journey and Interaction Selections

• History of Archive activity

• Administration of Archiving

Where's my document? We're building out the help-hub with online content first, click here to view this content. PeopleStage Archiving Guide

Google Ads Integration Guide

This integration guide details the processes required to integrate the Apteco Marketing Suite with Google Ads.

Summary of sections:

• Overview of the Google Ads Integration

• Process Summary

• Configuration in Google

• FastStats configuration

• PeopleStage configuration

• Adverts Channel in PeopleStage

• Customer Match Audience

• Response Gathering

Where's my document? Our Social integration for Q4 2020 includes a simpler way post to all the channels at one time. we're working hard to document it. Please contact Apteco support if you need help with this integration in the meantime.

This integration guide details the processes required to integrate Apteco with Microsoft Dynamics 365.

Summary of sections:

• Architecture schematic
• Custom Tables and Fields in Dynamics 365
• FastStats System Configuration
• Upsert to Dynamics 365
• Extracting Data from Dynamics 365 using FastStats Designer

Microsoft Dynamics 365

Installation Prerequisites

This document outlines the steps required to prepare for our consultant led admin and installation training course, it is intended to help prepare a test server environment.

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Getting started with your trial system

Creating additional users

Dashboards

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Online Mapping Guide

How to configure the online mapping module

Topics covered in this guide include:

• Configuring thematic mapping

• Configuring plot mapping

• Test mapping is working

• Troubleshooting

• Resources

Online mapping installation

Facebook Integration Guide

This integration guide details the processes required to integrate the Apteco Marketing Suite with the Facebook.

Summary of sections:

• Prerequisites for this integration
• Configuration in Facebook
• Facebook process summary
• FastStats configuration
• PeopleStage configuration
• Direct Ads

Facebook Integration Configuration

Twitter Integration Guide

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• Prerequisites for this integration
• Configuration in Twitter
• Twitter process summary
• FastStats configuration
• PeopleStage configuration

Twitter Integration Configuration

LinkedIn Integration Guide

This integration guide details the processes required to integrate Apteco with LinkedIn.

Summary of sections:

• Prerequisites for this integration

• Creating a LinkedIn App

• Marketing Developer Platform Product

• FastStats configuration

• LinkedIn Capaigns in PeopleStage

• Response Gathering

Where's my document? Our Social integration for Q4 2020 includes a simpler way post to all the channels at one time. we're working hard to document it. Please contact Apteco support if you need help with this integration in the meantime.