Who is the Client

A US-based brokerage firm that provides investing and trading services to 11M client accounts, and own more than $1 trillion of assets.

The Challenge

The client’s marketing team was using Adobe Target’s ‘Offers’ to create content blocks with the help of classic HTML editor. These content blocks had 15 different variations that had unique styling, messages, button styles, background colors, etc. and were deployed on a Single Page Application (SPA).

The developers had to intervene every time the marketing team needed to make a change in the content block styling or color, since it required editing in HTML markup (bundled with CSS classes).

The client wanted to automate the content block creation process to eliminate any dependency on the developers and for a faster time to market.

The Solution

GSPANN’s team reviewed the client’s existing processes and came up with a sustainable solution to reduce the turnaround time and developers’ involvement. We developed a custom component in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) that could produce all variations required for each use case.

Our experts upgraded AEM from 6.3.2.2 to 6.3.3.5 version, to enable the best use of Experience Fragment (XF) features. Now the client’s marketing team can quickly utilize XF along with ‘Export to Target’ feature, to publish their content on Adobe Target anytime they want.

After upgrading AEM successfully, we built the building blocks: a custom component and an XF template. Authors create and preview the base version of the offer in AEM and then publish it on Adobe Target. The offer is seen under the ‘Offers‘ section in Adobe Target. The content specialist links this offer to multiple activities and builds an experience for the targeted users across various digital channels.

Authors use the XF’s variation feature to build more variants of the offer. They can apply different styles to these variations. This solution also supports publishing the variations to Adobe Target and use them to deliver channel-agnostic content. This helps the user to build, modify, and reuse an offer.

Business Impact

  • Time to build an offer using a pre-built template in AEM is now reduced from 5 days to 15-20 minutes.
  • The client was able to save approx. 40 hours spent in creating 15 content variations.
  • By integrating Adobe Target’s ‘Offer’ content into AEM, the personalized alerts follow the content lifecycle of build, preview, review, and publish.

Technologies Used

Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). A comprehensive content management solution for building websites, mobile apps, and forms
Adobe Consulting Services (ACS) Commons. A way to bootstrap AEM projects with common functionality, a set of reusable components, and an AEM development toolkit
GitHub. A code hosting platform for version control and collaboration that allows working together on projects from anywhere
Languages. Java and Linux
Selenium/Cucumber/Spring Boot. Quality assurance automation framework
Jenkins. An open-source automation server that helps in building, testing, deploying, and facilitating continuous integration and continuous delivery
Atlassian Jira. A proprietary issue tracking product developed by Atlassian that allows bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management

Related Capabilities

Manage the Creation of Personalized and Relevant Content Across Platforms

Content drives engagement. We simplify information management for you to accelerate content productivity of uncompromised quality. Our competencies in content management systems will optimize your content to help you stay relevant in the ever-changing digital landscape.

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