Apteco's product milestones
Apteco is committed to the development and evolution of Apteco software in order for us to provide the ultimate end-to-end actionable marketing data insights and campaign automation solution, connecting you with your data. The timeline below displays selected features that have been released over the last year. To find out more about any of these features - please visit our online help hub using the button below. To see our roadmap of upcoming features please click here Apteco Roadmap and login to the Apteco portal.
October 2023
Apteco is now available via the Salesforce AppExchange
With just a few clicks you can install our Salesforce approved solution and connect it to your Salesforce data, applying the rich analysis, insight, and action capabilities of Apteco on your own Salesforce data within minutes!
September 2023
Pause and resume campaigns
Orbit now allows you to pause and resume your campaigns directly within the journey builder. There are various reasons to stop campaigns from running, such as data issues, logic changes, or a shift in priority. This new functionality puts you in control of campaign management, allowing you to minimise risk and adapt to changing needs.
September 2023
Live and draft campaign modes
With the new live and draft campaign modes in Apteco Orbit, you now have the ability to visualise and manage your campaigns with improved control, transparency, and convenience.
September 2023
The iconic power of cubes is now in Orbit
Combine the powerful functionality of cubes with the flexibility of audience workbooks to create dynamic data visualisations. You can now use one and two dimension cubes to display multiple measures with reworked cube properties, a custom colour scale and swappable dimensions and measures.
August 2023
Audiences: Selector picklist improvements
We’ve improved the usability of selector picklists so that categories load automatically. Users also now have an option to display selected categories first (via the sort by drop down menu), the ability to select all, when all categories are loaded (via the header row tick box) and the option to hide categories with zero values/no records.
July 2023
Audience workbooks: Working with dates
We’ve reworked date range selections, adding relative start/end dates, more pre-defined date ranges, and financial dates (Including years, halves, and quarters) are also now available, where supported.
July 2023
Campaigns: Manual campaign approval
Users now have the ability to manually approve or reject pending communications before proceeding with a campaign broadcast in Apteco Orbit.
June 2023
Explore your data with Audience workbooks
As part of our drive to bring more analytics into Orbit we have re-engineered Orbit Audiences, laying the groundwork for more advanced analytics and visualisation features.
May 2023
Expressions as filters in Audiences and Dashboards
You can now harness their full potential by incorporating them into the calculation of filters in both audiences and dashboards.
May 2023
Data grids as dashboard tiles
With data grid dashboard tiles, you can now view and interact with your data in a table format, right from your dashboard. This powerful new functionality allows you to view records on individual lines or as a single page view.
April 2023
Text variables as dimensions in Dashboards
You can now apply text variables as dimensions on dashboard tiles. When a text variable is used, 'category display' is now enabled with the default top 1000 and 'omit zeros' applied.
April 2023
SSO with OpenID Connect
We've added support for the OpenID Connect (OIDC) protocol when using Single Sign On (SSO) within Apteco, dramatically simplifying the configuration required for SSO.
March 2023
Temporary URN files in dashboard filters
Dashboard users can now choose uploaded URN/Reference Key files to be marked as temporary in dashboard user filters, including pre-defined filters.
February 2023
Build campaign journeys in Apteco Orbit
Connect your data and channels, extract actionable insights to build and refine your ideal target audience, then personalise your messages, automate and monitor your campaigns – all from one platform.
January 2023
Improved the refresh time of the campaign summary screen and stats
We've improved the refresh time on the campaign summary screen and the response times for campaign statistic retrieval once a campaign has been published
January 2023
Adding background colours to dashboard tiles in Apteco Orbit
You can now choose from a number of background colours to apply to a dashboard tile to create visual separation between different areas on the dashboard.
October 2022
Channel Editor FTP and File Channels in Apteco Orbit
Orbit users can now export an audience to an FTP or File channel, which can then be used and modified in Apteco Orbit and PeopleStage.
September 2022
Ability to record communication history for campaigning
Orbit users with the Broadcaster bundle or above are now able to determine whether their campaign records communications history. This data can be loaded and used for further analysis.
Aug 2022
Weekly and monthly recurring scheduling in Apteco Orbit
Orbit users can now automate email campaigns to run on a recurring schedule, on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.
Jul 2022
Expression measures can now be used in Apteco Orbit dashboards
This new feature provides Orbit dashboard editors and analysts the power to create more complex calculations for where standard measures or calculated measures have reached their limits. Expressions can be used to calculate values for tables, cubes, and other visualisations.
Jul 2022
Ability to schedule campaigns on a recurring daily schedule in Apteco Orbit
The first step towards automating your email campaigns in Orbit, this functionality gives Orbit users the ability to set a recurring daily schedule for their email campaigns.
Jun 2022
Tables and cubes can now be added as dashboard tiles in Apteco Orbit
One dimensional tables can be added to a dashboard by choosing the ‘table’ type, and two dimensional cubes can be added to a dashboard by choosing the ‘cube’ type, from the tile editor panel.
May 2022
The first release of Apteco Cloud SaaS
This major feature offers trial and production use of Apteco Orbit, using either a demo data set, or a data set from Salesforce.
Mar 2022
Users and group administration in Apteco Orbit
This new administrative feature includes user and group administration, allowing the creation, administration, and deletion of users and groups via the Orbit UI.
Mar 2022
WhatsApp campaigning channel in Apteco PeopleStage
This new feature enables users to send Business Initiated WhatsApp messages via PeopleStage. PeopleStage can now send Business initiated messages directly to a WhatsApp conversation initiated by the user, with the user having given their consent to receiving communications from WhatsApp.
Mar 2022
Azure DB platform support for FastStats only systems
This feature makes it possible to create Configuration, Web Service, and Orbit databases directly in a Microsoft SQL Server SaaS environment, such as Azure DB.
Jan 2022
Tile filters in Apteco Orbit
Dashboard authors can now apply additional data filters to individual dashboard tiles. This allows you to display different data and patterns over separate time frames, or compare one target audience against another side by side on a single dashboard.
Nov 2021
Behavioural modelling environment in Apteco FastStats
Two new types of be modelling features and further usability improvements, as well as updates to expressions, including two new derived cube functions.
Oct 2021
Venn diagrams in Apteco Orbit
You can now visualise your data overlaps with the beautiful new Venn visualisation tile in Apteco Orbit dashboards.
Oct 2021
Campaign channel editor in Apteco Orbit
Users can now set up new email channels in Apteco Orbit for campaigning in Orbit or PeopleStage. Users with admin permissions can access this function and define different Channels to use within PeopleStage.
Aug 2021
Scheduled Segmentations in Apteco FastStats
You can now run and automatically update a segmentation using a scheduled task.
Aug 2021
Scoring date based on current date for model variables in Apteco FastStats
You can now specify that the scoring date is taken dynamically from the run date when the virtual variable is refreshed. This means that you can create a single score variable, refresh it periodically and, on each refresh, a customer’s latest behaviour is evaluated.
Jul 2021
Search improvements in Apteco Orbit
The variable search function in Orbit has been enhanced to ensure finding attributes or variables is quicker and more efficient.
Jun 2021
Python integration improvements
The Apteco Python package now supports the use of banded Date and DateTime variables as cube dimensions. We’ve also added methods for selecting text variables which take values alphabetically before or after a given value.
Jun 2021
Workspaces in Apteco Orbit
This new feature links items for quicker navigation through the platform, and brings relevant resources together across features in a meaningful way.
Apr 2021
Categorical colours for charts in Apteco Orbit
Previously, funnel, donut, and pie charts were coloured using a shade of the main theme colour, based on the segment value. Now, multiple colours are picked from the theme, making it easier to distinguish one segment from the next.
Apr 2021
Email campaigns in Apteco Orbit using PeopleStage ESP channels
You can upload, or upload and broadcast an Audience to one of the many email service providers (ESPs) that Apteco already integrates with. Within Orbit, you can create a target Audience and then export directly to an ESP.
Feb 2021
Ability to create exclusion lists for Social Media ads in Apteco PeopleStage
This feature allows users to upload an exclusion audience to match against lookalike selections in social media platforms, when running paid social campaigns. This helps, for example, to suppress current customers from acquisition campaigns.
Feb 2021
Sub-day segmentations in Apteco FastStats
To meet the needs of the dynamic, fast-paced world of data analytics, we have added new DateTime selection rules to FastStats. This allows users to select date and time ranges within a few hours, minutes, or seconds, rather than days.
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