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Building a Scalable Internal Marketing Platform for AstraZeneca

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Overview

AstraZeneca is one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, known for developing innovative, life-changing medicines. They partnered with us to automate their marketing campaigns and centralize tracking across all marketing efforts within their internal platform.

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Client
AstraZeneca
Industry
B2B, SAAS Platform Marketing
Budget
Confidential
Timeline
2024
4 months (initial launch)
Our expertise
Design
Development
Website Architecture
Technical SEO
Content SEO

Result

The platform automatically handles domain setup, analytics integration, and departmental permissions – eliminating the most time-consuming technical tasks.

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CHALLENGE

From bottleneck to breakthrough

For a global pharmaceutical leader managing hundreds of marketing initiatives across multiple therapeutic areas, the campaign publishing process had become a significant bottleneck.

Each small marketing campaign — whether an informational page for doctors, patient education materials, or product announcements — required a lengthy, multi-step process:

  • Starting from minimal organic presence (600 monthly visitors)

  • Needed to compete with established players in private securities market

  • Required scalable content strategy to reach target audience quickly

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SOLUTION

AstraPlatform

The platform automatically handles domain setup, analytics integration, and departmental permissions – eliminating the most time-consuming technical tasks.

The new system empowers marketing managers from any therapeutic area (R&I, Cardio, Diabetes, or Oncology) to directly publish campaigns without technical assistance.

The system automatically:

  • Connects to the appropriate department's tracking

  • Restricts access to authorized department managers

  • Applies consistent branding and compliance standards

platform automatically handles domain setupm analytics integration, and departmental permission

Our approach: simplify, streamline, standardise

Rather than assuming solutions, we began with discovery.

Through multiple stakeholder meetings with marketing teams, we identified specific bottlenecks and pain points in their workflow. After several iterations of prototyping and testing, we developed a user flow that drastically simplified the publishing process.

The new approach focused on three core principles:

  • Reduce manual coordination between teams

  • Create standardized workflows with built-in compliance

  • Implement end-to-end analytics across all departments

This transformed the publishing process from a complex, multi-team coordination effort to three straightforward steps:

out approach: simplify, streamline, standardise

Visual design system

To solve the problem of campaign materials becoming visually indistinguishable, we developed a visual identification system with unique color coding for each therapeutic area:

  • Each department (R&I, Cardio, Diabetes, Oncology) received a distinctive color scheme

  • This color coding throughout the platform made campaigns instantly recognizable by department

  • Visual differentiation improved content organization and reduced confusion when working across multiple campaigns

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Comprehensive analytics

The platform integrates powerful tracking capabilities, providing marketing teams with actionable insights:

  • Campaign attribution tracking (publisher, target audience, traffic type)

  • Analytics integration

  • Detailed audience segmentation analytics

  • A/B testing capabilities to optimize audience targeting

comprehensive analytics platform

Enterprise-grade security analytics

Pharma marketing demands security and usability. We built AstraZeneca’s AWS-based system with NestJS & PostgreSQL, ensuring compliance and speed.

For the user interface, we chose TypeScript and React to create a simple, error-resistant experience. We added thorough testing with Playwright and Vitest so marketing teams could trust the system with their time-sensitive content.

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