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The Ponemon Institute has published a report on the financial losses of organizations that occurred as a result of data breaches. The cost of stolen information in 2021 increased by 10% compared to the previous year. The total loss amounted to $4.24 million (against $3.86 million in 2020). Most often, hackers attacked customer personally identifiable information (PII).

Currently, society makes serious demands on businesses when it comes to protecting confidential data. However, breaches do happen. How to detect unauthorized access to information and what should be done in this case? Let’s discuss this in the post.

## What is a data breach

If information falls into the hands of persons for whom it is not intended, they speak of a data breach. Most often, it is official or [**confidential information**](ways-to-address-customer-data-privacy-issues-in-digital-marketing). Hackers steal personal data of employees, credit card numbers of customers, as well as information related to trade secrets.

**Types of data breaches:**

- Information that identifies users: names, phone numbers, emails, physical addresses, and others. 
- Financial data: banking information, credit card numbers, passwords and logins that fraudsters use to steal money from bank accounts.

## Examples of data breaches in companies

Robinhood is an American financial services company. The company has an application through which users invest and trade stocks.

In November 2021, 5 million user emails were stolen from the company. The scammer learned the names of 2 million Robinhood customers and demanded money for non-disclosure of information.

First of all, Robinhood turned to law enforcement with a statement about extortion of money. They then prepared and published an incident report for app users and personally contacted affected customers. The company also signed a long-term contract with Mandiant, a leader in cybersecurity. Mandiant helped Robinhood eliminate the data breach and became responsible for its data security in the future.

Social media platform, Linkedin, suffered a data breach that compromised the personal information of 165 million user accounts. The data breach — which cost the company over three million pounds to clean up — has widely been reported as the result of weak user passwords.

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## How data breaches happen

According to the Verizon 2022 [**Data Breach Investigations Report**](https://www.verizon.com/business/resources/reports/dbir/), the most popular method is criminal hacking. Hackers use phishing, brute-force attacks on data servers, spyware and malware.

Breaches also happen within companies. For example, when an employee accidentally reads information on a colleague's computer without permission. Although the access is unintentional and the "secret" is not shared, such an incident is considered a breach of data security. 

There are also cases when an employee intentionally gains access in order to use the information in bad faith.

## Data breach: red flags

It is time to suspect a data breach if you notice the following signs:

- Company’s confidential data appeared in the public domain (for example, on the Internet).
- Data downloads by unauthorized users were recorded within the corporate network.
- Someone tries to log into the system from suspicious devices.
- There is activity in the corporate network at uncommon times.
- System crashes, password changes and uncontrolled account lockouts are common.
- Payments in e-commerce began to give errors.

## Who to report a data breach

The company must report to the appropriate organization that there has been a data breach. The organization varies depending on the location of the business and its customers. In 50 states of America, the procedure for notifying customers about a data breach incident is legally established.

On the territory of the European Union, the first to know about what happened is the DPA, a special organization responsible for the safety of personal data. The [**GDPR**](customer-data-privacy-issues-in-digital-marketing) requires businesses to notify the DPA within 72 hours.

## Data breach prevention

Now we will talk about how to prevent data breaches from happening, but not about what to do when it has already happened. You should constantly improve your data security to keep your business safe. Here are steps to take:

- **Set up limited access to data.** Let those people who need it have access to information. Do not give access to data to those who do not need it for the quality of their work.
- **Keep the software up to date.** Outdated software contains many security holes through which confidential information can leak out of the company.
- **Take passwords seriously.** If fraudsters find out the password to enter the system, all doors will open for them. We recommend that you change your work passwords every quarter and do not use simple combinations.
- **Protect employees' personal devices.** When the personal equipment of specialists is involved in the workflow, there is a risk for the business. The threat can be leveled with the help of antiviruses and VPN.

## Protect your data with Altcraft Platform

[**Altcraft Platform**](/en) is a reliable marketing automation platform with full data flow control. We take into account all the requirements of customers for the security of information. When requested, the platform can be deployed on the client's server. On Premise hosting enables rapid implementation without sacrificing security. Altcraft Platform has no limits on the amount of information to be stored and on the number of messages sent. There is no need to resort to the help of third-party vendors.

In this post, we talk about what data breaches are, how they happen, what to do, and how to detect and prevent them.

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Data Breaches: How Your Business Should Respond to Them

How to Respond to Data Breaches

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In the previous piece, we discussed [**customer data privacy issues**](customer-data-privacy-issues-in-digital-marketing) in digital marketing. Let's recap the main points. So, today the struggle for data has reached the state level: the GDPR in the EU, the CLOUD Act in the USA, the Personal Information Protection Law in China, and ecosystems shutdown can completely monopolize the customer data market.

This suggests that in the current situation, there is one right solution: to build an independent system for collecting and managing customer data for direct and secure communication with customers in the digital environment. We are going to tell you more about this in today's piece.

## Cloud-based marketing automation services risks

We agree that the adoption of the CLOUD Act greatly undermines measures to protect customer private information. Besides, you cannot be sure of companies claiming that they conform to the key principles of the GDPR.

Major market players understand the importance of protecting private data provided to them. Companies are concerned that their data may be illegally used for commercial purposes.

The strategic issue for successful business in the digital sphere is the sole possession of customer data. That's why the struggle for data will only intensify.

The number of cloud service users has grown significantly in recent years. Now the huge volumes of data are stored beyond the jurisdiction in which they were created. Besides, using SaaS solutions, companies cannot ensure proper protection of the received data.

DLA PIPER has conducted research that demonstrates the unreliable protection of confidential information in certain countries.

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**Here are some more reasons why you should not store private data in cloud storage:**

(1) Scalability of the service resources is not available;

(2) Data cannot be uploaded/transferred;

(3) Exclusion of liability;

(4) Cloud storage can also crash:

- In March 2021, Microsoft Teams, Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics 365 went down.

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- Also in March 2021, **Oracle Cloud** (all 17 zones) was down for an hour and a half. According to Oracle, the reason was public DNS servers that had been incorrectly configured.

- On October 13, 2021, [**OVH**](https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/1448196879020433409), the second largest hosting provider in Europe, went offline during scheduled maintenance.

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- On October 4, 2021, the world witnessed a massive [**Facebook outage**](https://www.facebook.com/business/news/update-about-the-october-4th-outage). A number of its subsidiaries (Facebook Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus) also went down. The services were not working for more than 7 hours.

(5) Risk of complete data loss;

(6) The development cannot be influenced;

(7) There is no clear understanding of who uses the data and how.

All this leads to problems that need to be solved:

- To ensure the security of your data and customer data;
- To track your customer and organize data collection in the digital environment;
- To build an independent digital system of interaction with customers.

**We offer several solutions.**

## Private Cloud

### What is a private cloud: pros and cons

**A Private cloud** is a cloud solution, the software resources of which are intended solely for one organization. You can embed a private cloud either in the infrastructure of your company or in a multi-user cloud infrastructure. Organizations choose a private cloud because it is more reliable than a public one. Only certain employees have access to the data, which enhances security and minimizes leakage risks.

**Advantages of a private cloud:**

- Full control over the choice of hardware and software.
- Freedom to configure hardware and software in any way.
- Increased level of data security and confidentiality.
- Advanced [**integration capabilities**](/features/integration) with other services.

**Disadvantages of a private cloud:**

- Installation payment.
- Scaling is not as fast as in a public cloud.
- Higher total cost of ownership for small data volumes.

## In-House development

### What is in-house development: pros and cons

In-house development is when your company experts are involved in the development of software. The success or failure of this venture depends only on you. You are recruiting a team of developers to achieve your goal. At the same time, each specialist is responsible for their task.

Team building is a long and important process. If you manage to gather experts interested in the case, you will be surrounded by dedicated people who you can count on in the future.

**Advantages of in-house development:**

- The possibility of expanding your services.
- No need to buy third-party software.
- Independence from vendors.

**Disadvantages of in-house development:**

- The development time is 3-4 years.
- Lack of specialization in marketing technologies.
- Shortage of IT resources.
- High costs for the staff of developers.
- The result may not meet the requirements/the wrong stack of technologies may be obtained.
- Spending the budget on a third-party solution while your own is being developed.
- The need for ongoing software support.
- Infrastructure maintenance costs.

As you can tell, this solution has more disadvantages than advantages. There is no guarantee that you will succeed in the end.

## On-Premise

### What is on-premise solution: advantages and disadvantages

On-Premise is a software package that is deployed by the customer on their own server equipment. Its support and administration are also conducted by the customer. The customer purchases only the program (the license) and provides everything that is required for its full operation independently.

**Advantages of on-premise:**

- You will get a ready-made solution «‎here and now».
- You will not have to maintain a team of developers.
- All security requirements are met.
- You can integrate it with internal databases and services.
- Technical support of software is conducted by the vendor.

**Disadvantages of on-premise:**

- Higher total cost of ownership.
- Dependance on an external vendor for product modifications.
- Complicated tariff design.
- Bureaucratic barriers to implementation and the need for procurement approval.

## Altcraft Platform

### On-Premise and Private Cloud

What should large and medium-sized businesses choose to ensure information security? Nowadays, digital platforms that can deploy as a private cloud or on-premise solution are an excellent choice for your business. By embedding such an on-premise marketing software as [**Altcraft Platform**](/en) into the corporate network, the organization prevents the possibility of a personal data breach. All operations with confidential information are conducted within the company. The organization has full control over the data, excluding outside interference.

**Why is our Altcraft Platform what you need?**

► Transparent [**tariff system**](/prices):

- all modules are included at once;
- unlimited number of messages;
- unlimited amount of stored data for the entire period of use.

► Scalable architecture optimized for heavy workloads.

► No need to buy more commercial databases or OS.

► Users influence product development and, if necessary, order modifications.

A lot of banks, insurance and logistics companies, payment systems and online services working with large databases use Altcraft Platform. You can read more about this in: [**«How Altcraft Platform Helped AlfaStrakhovanie Group Increase Repeat Online Purchases by 49%»**](case-how-altcraft-platform-helped-top-insurance-company-increase-sales) and [**«How Otkritie Broker Automated Communication with Customers by Means of Altcraft Platform»**](how-otkritie-broker-JSC-has-automated-communications-with-clients-using-Altcraft). Our built-in solution fully adapts to the tasks of companies, allowing them to manage all processes within the system.

## Conclusion

Nowadays, companies are concerned about whether the information provided to them is securely stored. As we have already mentioned, cloud service providers are not able to properly protect customer private data. That's why you should consider all the pros and cons when choosing a solution. Check what country the provider is in, what laws they obey and how they operate.

Let's talk about customer data privacy: Private Cloud, In-House and On-Premise. Advantages and disadvantages.

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What is a Private Cloud, In-House and On-Premise solution

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Managing data is a critical role for any enterprise. How you choose to approach this vital function depends on such factors as volume, security demands, and budget.

Since every company’s needs are different, each may elect to deploy their data management and computer services in a single method or a combination of more than one.

Options include:

- On-Premise Management
- SaaS (Software as a Service)
- Private Cloud

While each of these strategies has specific benefits, some are simply not the best choice in every context. Let’s look at the differences.

### What is On-Premise Data Management?

On-Premise Data Management consists of a purchased software package installed, maintained, and administered within your hardware. This platform uses on-site servers rather than remote, off-site systems. Once you buy the software, it becomes your property, allowing for extensive customization and expansion by your IT professionals.

### What is SaaS?

SaaS (Software as a Service) is a software distribution system developed by a vendor and hosted on a web application that allows access to customers via the Internet. SaaS is a subscription service in which you pay a predetermined fee to use the software. In general, the SaaS systems are less costly and are scalable to adapt to your company’s growth.

### What is a Private Cloud?

The private cloud consists of computing services available over the Internet or a private internal network and is accessible only to specified users instead of the broader public. The software is installed on remote servers and managed by the vendor. Security and backup capability are also the responsibility of the vendor.

## Characteristics of Each System

Solutions vary based on the needs of each company. For example, banks, insurance, logistics, and brokers’ companies often choose on-premises because they are responsible for their clients’ data protection.

In other instances, smaller companies and startups may choose to employ SaaS options to avoid the investment required for hardware and IT staffing.

### On-Premise Features

- **Fixed Cost:** You pay only a single fixed [**cost**](/prices) for the agreement period. And, not having to pay for the use of exterior software licenses and storage by implementing an on-premise software platform can be a significant saving. Databases can grow as needed, and messaging is unlimited.

- **Absolute Security and Control:** Since everything stays inside the custom-designed system, customer and company data remain strategically protected by internal security controls and protocols.

- **Flexible Integration and Customization:** With all internally managed data, in-house integration for new uses and applications to create unique, customized reporting is more manageable.

- **Manages Sensitive Data Best:** With the proliferation of hackers and malicious intrusion, many companies find that on-premises platforms deliver greater peace of mind.

### SaaS Features

- **Quick Start:** No additional hardware nor in-house support and system maintenance are required.

- **Security:** The SaaS platform employs encrypted data and requires minimal to no support from an internal dedicated IT Department.

- **Flexible and Easy to Integrate:** Select only the software you will need and use, making sure the systems match your operational requirements.

- **Cost:** SaaS can be a low-cost option if your [**database**](how-to-build-an-email-database) is not extensive, users will be limited to a small number, and relatively few messages will be sent.

### Private Cloud Features

- **Remote Server:** An off-premises hosted solution managed by an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) provider allows you to reduce your in-house staffing IT costs in many instances.

- **Rented Server:** No hardware cost.

- **Optimal Mobile Accessibility:** Using a Cloud-based platform, multiple remote users can access data more efficiently.

- **Data Security Risks:** Growing concern and risk of malicious hacking that can expose your database to excessive risk of compromise. Fear of cyberattacks is the main reason why many large enterprises choose to keep all of their [**data**](data-driven-marketing) on-premise.

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## Choosing the Best Hosted Solution for Your Marketing Automation Service

Let's sum up. The on-premise software solution or “on-prem” method has a lower long-term. This method is excellent for businesses that require many users and a wide range of customization options. At the same time, smaller businesses that don't have a large client database should choose SaaS solutions. This way, they can avoid the investment required for hardware and IT staffing.

[**Altcraft Platform**](/en) is a marketing automation service that can be deployed on any of the three platform types. Since each has different needs, security issues, and marketing approaches, Altcraft can recommend and support the perfect deployment method tailored to your needs. If you want to automate marketing processes right now, leave an [**application**](/request).



On-premise, SaaS or Private cloud — each deployment has its own pros and cons. Learn how to choose the right solution for your marketing automation service.

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On-Premise vs Cloud: Which Is Better for Your Business

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Sharing our platform updates and telling you what they are for.

## Visual editor

A built-in visual editor has appeared in our platform. Now you can make changes to existing templates in a couple of clicks. You don't need to be a layout designer to do this - the necessary tools and blocks are at hand.

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All features of the Altcraft Marketing visual editor:

-   Creating a new template or making changes to an existing one.
-   Many typed blocks: adaptive formatting, banners, videos, headers, lists, menus, and more.
-   Block “AMP-carousel”.
-   Easy navigation through the HTML DOM tree.
-   Editing in device-specific adaptation mode.
-   Working with classes and styles.
-   Ability to save your own blocks.
-   Custom image storage with search and automatic loading from external sources.

## Relations between profiles

Profile relations reflect the interaction between subscribers as well as their value. For example, the connection between social network users and bloggers — “likes”, subscriptions to each other and reposts of one content. It helps segment profiles based on their relationships. They simplify and streamline this process.

Relations between subscribers can be expressed as numeric or logical values. They can also be added to the email template using special variables. For example, using them, you can form a list of your favorite bloggers.

## Static segmentation

Now you can capture segments in our platform. Previously, only dynamic segments were available in Altcraft Marketing. With their help, it is convenient to automatically segment the audience according to certain parameters. You couldn't manually add subscribers to them.

A static segment is a list you create yourself. You can upload data from your platform or CRM system. You can link a dynamic segment that will be used to create a permanent list of users. Alternatively, you can add data from some segments and exclude others. For example, to create a static segment with loyal customers of a company, you need to:

1.  Select a database that has the company's clients.
2.  Add a segmentation rule: "Make a purchase on the site monthly" or the other one.
3.  Create a segment.

If you have a separate file with loyal customers, for example, on your other platform, then you can add it to this static segment.

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In the history of a subscriber's profile, you can see which segment corresponds to them now and which one they were in before. You can configure triggers and launch message chains based on this information.

## Auto subscription priority

It happens that one user registers on the site several times. The question arises: which email address should I send the message to? Previously, customers managed the priority of their subscriptions themselves. Now, this happens automatically in the platform — the last contact becomes the highest priority and receives your mailings.

If the subscription status has changed, the previous contact takes priority and starts receiving emails again.

## Custom pixel domain for the Сloud

If you need your own domain for storing cookies, you can now connect it to your account settings. The settings are checked automatically.

The good thing about your own domain is that you can store cookie data without involving third parties and additionally protect the personal data of users.

## Replacing links in already sent messages

If you used an incorrect link in the letter, and it has already left, then you can still replace the link. Users will not notice this and will go to the desired section of the site.

You can change the link in the "Settings", "Custom links" section. It is enough just to create a new link of the "Replaced link" type.

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## In the next issue

In the second issue, we will talk about improving the client profile, new funnels, presets for report columns, and much more. If you are interested in one of the new features in our platform and would like to learn a little more about it, do not hesitate to contact **[us](mailto:sales@altkraft.com)**.



Here are some updates in Altcraft Marketing Automation Platform: visual editor for creating email templates, relations between clients, static segments, etc.

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New Features of Altcraft Marketing Automation Platform

Altcraft Marketing Platform Updates. Vol. 1

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The beginning of the year caught our team preparing a massive update for Altcraft Marketing Platform. And now we are glad to inform you: the new release is ready and running - as a cloud solution or as a package for on-premises deployment. Contact our team if you haven't yet received your update!

To introduce our platform's new features and improvements we are starting a series of articles. The first one - you are reading it right now - will be about the one thing, marketers face every day working with Altcraft. Just take a glance at the new Altcraft MP user interface. We have optimized it to provide you with flawless user experience - make your work more enjoyable and save your time.

## At an arm's reach

The new navigation menu will quickly take you where you need - it is placed on the left side of the screen and its child elements are available when you expand a parent category. For example, you can quickly switch from databases to different campaign types.

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Master settings are also available from the main menu - only for users with master privileges of course. Action audit tool is among these - a new feature for supervising Altcraft platform user activity.

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Users can now upload custom avatars for their profiles. Clicking a userpic at the top right corner of the screen will open user profile settings. There you can set up access, language and notifications preferences. 

## A couple of clicks closer 

We have transformed the look and feel of Altcraft Platform's object browsers: databases, customer profiles, templates, campaigns, workflows and all other objects are now displayed as tiles with important information about each object. You will need to open object details less - and that will significantly save your time!

Don't search for object quick action icons - we have replaced them with a dropdown menu in object tiles. And when you are browsing templates or campaigns - just click a message thumbnail for quick preview.

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You will find any object easier with the new search engine. It supports searches by name or ID - or by custom tags that you can assign to obects.  

## A framework for performance marketing

We value both your time and your marketing analytics precision. Thus various changes were made to improve and optimize Altcraft MP reports. It has become possible to display all performance indicators on one page in Summary reports - there are more than 70 different parameters, relative and absolute. All summary report settings are saved for a specific user - so you will always get only relative statistics.

Moreover, we added new grouping possibilities for deeper end-to end marketing analytics. Every report is supplied with an interactive graph representing customizable parameters as curves for daily, weekly and monthly visualization.  

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The new homepage dashboard design is aimed to provide you with the most important statistic for account groups. The upper part of the dashboard contains tiles with key performance indicators for deliveries, opens, clicks and reads - and an interactive graph for these parameters. 

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The next part contains top charts for marketing campaigns with the highest delivery, open, click and conversion rates. Selecting a campaign will open a corresponding summary report with detailed statistics. You will easily detect and timely react to increased customers' interest towards specific campaigns in order to maximise your profit.

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The lower part of the dashboard displays negative performance indicators: undeliveries, soft and hard bounces, complaints and unsubscribes. You will now spend less time solving messaging problems - for you will know when something is just starting to get wrong. Clicking a campaign in negative top charts will also open a summary report for the campaign in question.

## Inside out: features driving design

Rest assured, Altcraft MP's new graphical interface is much more than a mere face-lift. It has appeared to make our awesome new digital marketing tools easy and enjoyable to use. We have developed brand new platform modules, rebuilt and improved the existing ones, optimized internal processes and applied necessary fixes. 

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One of the main features to be introduced is AK Pixel, a technology stack for tracking your customers' online behavior. You can use action tracking data for precise behavioral targeting, customer scoring, sales gamification and ROI analytics with Altcraft pixel and goals reports.

However, the most significant changes happened to the customer data management system. We have replaced multiple subscribers lists with customer profile databases. One profile now contains all the necessary customer data: demographics, action history, loyalty programs and multiple omnichannel subscriptions organized into publishing resources.

Read about these and other new features in the following articles!


Read about changes in the Altcraft Marketing automation platform: web pixels to track customers' behavior on your website, performance indicators in the summary reports and much more.

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Now we are glad to inform you: the new release is ready and running - as a cloud solution or as a package for on-premises deployment!

Updated UI for Altcraft Marketing Automation Platform

Meet the New Altсraft User Interface

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Not a single company would like to waste its funds on inefficient marketing. Automation could improve a company’s performance and increase the profit.

**The customer:** Marketing agency providing marketing projects, marketing automatisation  for banking and insurance organisation, retail-service.

Before approaching **Altcraft**: The customer has already experienced the services of other smaller companies for sending bulk emails, sms as well as web push to their clients. Such working process lead to waste of time while integrating the Client’s infrastructures (CRM, CMS, Call-centres)  with the service data. As a result, it was necessary to refuse to serve more customers.

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## Customer`s tasks

- cutting time of integration client`s infrastructure with marketing platforms;
- refusal to work with exterior implementing organizations in favor of a single platform installed on the equipment of the Customer;
- increasing productivity due to the aim to reduced data in more extent; 
- common clients` data integration in CRM with marketing platform; 
- securing customers` data.

## What did the company Altcraft offer: 

- to use omnichannel platform for automatisation marketing **Altcraft Marketing Platform** in order to abandon exterior performers;
- вto choose a model **On-Premise** that provides high productivity and data`s secure.

## To solve the problems of the Customer, the following work was carried out

- installation and configuration of the Altcraft Marketing Platform: 24 hours; 
- customer’s staff training on the platform: 4 hours;
- outgoing messages delivery optimization: 8 hours;
- Integration of CRM systems of current customers of the Customer: 120 hours.

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## Results of implementing the Altcraft Marketing Platform

- reducing the time in handling requests from the new clients; 
- an option to provide services by sending out sms instead of using third party services;
- no limits about the extent of data and the number of sending messages for the customer;
- no extra expenses for the third party companies;
- an increase in Customer’s profit by Altcraft sending out messages instead of the third party companies;
- protecting client’s data by setting the permission levels depending on the employee’s’ roles;
- сompliance with the law of the Russian Federation "Personal Data Act" (data is stored on the equipment of the Customer in the Russian Federation);
- ensuring high productivity when sending messages (on the customer’s current resources, the platform allows you to send 1 million messages in ~ 20 minutes, deliver in ~ 60 minutes).


*As a result of cooperation the customer (marketing agency) and the company Altcraft, a better level of the offered services has been reached. Now the customer offers more favorable terms of service as well as the time of service along with the integration of each client have significantly been reduced. Customer’s clients have no longer a necessity to contract and make integrations with the third-party companies.*




In this article, we'll tell you how a Marketing Agency Took Its Business to a New Level Using Altcraft Marketing Automation Platform.

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Not a single company would like to waste its funds on inefficient marketing. Automation could improve a company’s performance and increase the profit.

How a Marketing Agency Took Its Business to a New Level

Marketing Automation With Altcraft. Case: Marketing Agency

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As you may already know Altcraft Marketing Platform provides both On-Premise and SaaS solutions. 
That is the reason why we’re going to touch on this interesting theme. We’ll look at the differences between built-in and cloud solutions and describe their advantages. But first, let’s figure out what is what.

The cloud service (SaaS - Software as a Service) is a software distribution model in which a vendor develops and hosts a web application and  make it available to the customers via the Internet.

On-premise is a software package that is located on the customer’s server hardware. The customers buy software licence and maintain and administrate the software on their own.

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This review is not intended to counterpose these two solutions. We aimed to show that each solution has its obvious advantages. You just need to choose which one meets your business needs. We hope that this review will prove very useful.



Read the article to know what's the difference between On-premise and SaaS solutions. Choose the right type of deployment for your business.

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We’ll look at the differences between built-in and cloud solutions and describe their advantages. But first, let’s figure out what is what.

What are On-Premise and SaaS Solutions?

On-Premise or SaaS?

All user information is systematically collected in a unified customer data platform

Distributing messages across various communication channels: email, SMS, push notifications, messengers

Promo codes, bonuses, and points for building long-term customer relationships

You can create and edit any HTML template, as well as save your own custom blocks

Personalized distribution of messages to clients through communication channels

Conducting experiments and optimizing marketing strategies

Tracking the effectiveness of marketing campaigns to make informed decisions

Connecting external systems to the platform and synchronizing data with company databases

Creating questionnaires, surveys, and feedback forms of any level of complexity

The ability to communicate with your clients anytime and anywhere

Customer Data Platform

Omnichannel Marketing

Loyalty programs

HTML Email Builder

Personalized mailings

A/B/n Testing

Real-time analytics

Integration and WebHooks

Forms and Surveys

Messenger Communication

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