All the Features for Agencies, Marketers, Developers and More

• Non-technical users can easily create, update and reuse page templates and components
• Manage layouts and configure all page elements with zero web developer dependency, or cost
• Include ‘tag’ driven card components and create custom content listings
• Easily create re-usable sophisticated, multi-media website and landing page layouts
• Blend editorial, search based listings and multi-format advertising with seamless ad server integration
• Work across all screen sizes and devices, with responsive layout and adaptive content

The creation of rich, multimedia web pages, landing pages and data driven editorial is now in the hands of editorial users, not the development team or web designers

• Non-technical users can easily create, update and reuse page templates and components
• Manage layouts and configure all page elements with zero web developer dependency, or cost
• Include ‘tag’ driven card components and create custom content listings
• Easily create re-usable sophisticated, multi-media website and landing page layouts
• Blend editorial, search based listings and multi-format advertising with seamless ad server integration
• Work across all screen sizes and devices, with responsive layout and adaptive content

The creation of rich, multimedia web pages, landing pages and data driven editorial is now in the hands of editorial users, not the development team or web designers

• Browser push notifications and email messages can be managed from within Blaze, using the existing integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS)Pinpoint
• Pinpoint facilitates the management and sending of messages through multiple channels
• Messages could be used in a number of marketing, or operational use cases to promote interaction with a user's account, or content
• Plugin integration with Pinpoint gives developers access to email, voice, SMS and browser push notifications for the purposes of audience development, campaign management or for transactional event driven messages

The ability to easily engage with users in the communication channels that they prefer offers competitive advantage to operations and marketing

• Visualise how users interact with website or App content within page components over time, giving valuable, monetisable engagement insight
• Within any page or component define which attributes of the content, or data are passed to the Google data layer and to Google Analytics
• Pass attributes of the page / component, like tags for topic, or user type attributes on which events, like shopping cart events
• Use the same technique to customise and pass content mark-up to Google Ad Manager, or other Ad servers, to manage campaigns targeted by e.g. content topic, user preferences or user segment

The ability to uniquely track how users interact with content and site information and editorial will provide unique and powerful market data and actionable insights for marketers

• Byte9 have deployed two open-source projects to facilitate user-interface (UI) design around the Blaze application:
• The Blaze Component Library is a catalogue of React interface components and animations used within Blaze and Blaze plugins
• The Blaze Design library provides a set of styles that are used across the components and plugins to maintain visual consistency and style.
• Blaze Default Project Styles
• Style management
• SASS

The ability to easily engage with users in the communication channels that they prefer offers competitive advantage to operations and marketing

• Create forms and data capture tools to gather user data, with Form Builder
• Import, validate and manage data from other systems, using Data Manager
• Allow non-technical users to design, configure, and reuse form components for user data capture, like ‘freemium’ member access
• Flexibility to meet membership, subscription or offer data capture and management, as part of ongoing content marketing initiatives
• Validate data captured though forms or integrations, by each data type
• Share curated data with third party systems in useful, easily accessible and monetisable ways, with Data Manager

The ability to easily engage with users in the communication channels that they prefer offers competitive advantage to operations and marketing

• Blaze import tools can retrieve, import, process & store large amounts of data from multiple sources, concurrently, at low cost and without impact on overall system performance
• A sophisticated queue management system, within Blaze processes these on AWS
• Blaze ‘Worker Instances’ can be used ‘on-demand’, significantly reducing on-going hosting costs with AWS
• Worker Instances are used across the Framework; importing data, processing imports, creating search indexes, mass email or push notification management etc.

Importing data from many sources, is a significant overhead for large website builds, migrations or ongoing management. Blaze offers a suite of tools to facilitate this, at scale

• Publish product, data, or icons with information panes on Google maps
• Easily control the presentation of Google Maps, and how it fits with overall site design
• Associate data and content to different ‘zoom levels’ allowing for collated data to be shown when zoomed out, and detail to be revealed at lower levels
• Control data presentation within ‘info panes’ and embed associated images, data or content at different levels
• Manage positioning from geographic data associated to content, or control that manually to suit

Being able to visualise content and data in geographical space, collated at different levels allows elegant presentation of content and data in space, a new dimension

• Publish static or dynamic editorial and data embedded in tables, or charts, as part of any ‘Page builder’ content type
• Manage editorial articles and landing pages that update as the underlying data evolves
• Create and customise a range of data visualisations that could either form part of published editorial, or stand alone
• Select data presentation types from a range of chart types, select appropriate data sources and create visualisations that can be published with static or dynamic data
• Enable end-users to interact with dynamic data, on custom dashboards, or within editorial

Data publishing is a huge new frontier for digital publishers. The ability to manage and present data within editorial with Blaze is unparalleled in the CMS space in 2022

• Manage custom content access models for website or App users, controlling the price and length of access to content across content types and devices
• Membership levels, both free and paid, will be assigned to the user groups which will allow for areas of the site, or content items to be restricted to certain user groups
• Restrict access at the template level (by content type); page level (specific landing page); or at a component level (e.g. only part of a landing page)
• Integrate with 3rdparty subscription and access management platforms, for management of business logic associated to access rules

Configure and experiment with access rules, and subscription levels to manage data capture and subscription revenue. Take complete control of access to premium and ‘freemium’ content

• Use Blaze ‘Page Builder’ to configure search filter options which can be applied to content listings on the same page
• Create any number of catalogue or directory pages; select the options for search filters like; select, checkbox, radio, range, etc…
• Blend relevant editorial within any section of the search page, or search results page to create immersive, multi-media and editorial led catalogue landing pages
• Create search components as an integral part of the editorial and put search components on page components, throughout the site

Being able to set up custom directory, or product catalogue search and listings & then blend that with editorial will create enormous content marketing, landing page conversion and SEO potential

• The technology stack and the way the Blaze application is architected enables both the categorization of content and in future its unique presentation within any card component, set within Page builder
• The technology enables every card component to be set to feature content, products, or adverts will match to a user’s preferences, or browsing history
• Personalised card components can then be delivered to a very large number of concurrent website visitors, giving Blaze users unique competitive advantage
• ‘Cohort Analysis’ will allow user’s behaviour to be collated and stored at a group level, the intention being personalisation based on a simar segment of user’s behaviour

The ability to easily engage with users in the communication channels that they prefer offers competitive advantage to operations and marketing