Capability · 03

Analytics.

The data infrastructure behind every serious marketing decision.

Server-side tracking, GA4 enterprise, MCP data lake, attribution modelling, consent governance. The technical foundation on which the rest of the Fortop system rests — including BIKMA. We work with the discipline of an engineering practice, not the approximation of a reporting exercise.

02 · The context

The data regime has changed. Most marketing departments are still using an infrastructure from 2017.

Over the last seven years data collection has been rewritten from the ground up. GDPR and ePrivacy made consent a technical condition, not a disclaimer. Apple ITP, iOS 14 and the progressive deprecation of third-party cookies have halved the ability to track client-side. Ad platforms have reacted with opaque statistical models that infer what is no longer measured.

Net result: in many sectors client-side data accuracy has fallen to 60–70% (Fortop audits 2023-2025) without marketing noticing.

In parallel, marketing decisions have become increasingly automated. Bid management, audience selection, content personalisation, attribution on which the allocation of millions of euros in budget is decided — all driven by models that lean on the data we feed them. If the data is wrong, the AI takes wrong decisions very quickly.

Most agencies offer reports. We offer the data infrastructure beneath the reports — because a report on wrong data produces wrong decisions, whatever the graphics look like.

03 · What we include

Six operating areas in a single service.

01

Data Architecture & Governance

Design of the company’s data architecture: what we collect, where we store it, who uses it, how we protect it. Data models, interface contracts, lifecycle governance. It is the depth that separates a real data capability from a Google Analytics setup.

02

Server-side Tracking & GA4 Enterprise

Implementation of Google Tag Manager Server-Side, GA4 enterprise with BigQuery export enabled, enterprise dataLayer, enterprise management of events and custom dimensions. Server-side first since 2019, before it became the standard.

03

Consent Management & GDPR-compliant Tracking

Consent Mode v2, integration with CMPs (iubenda, OneTrust, Didomi, Cookiebot), GDPR- and ePrivacy-compliant tracking, consent decay management, operational integration with our platform GDPR Daily for continuous validation.

04

Attribution Modelling

Data-driven attribution models, multi-touch attribution, marketing mix modelling for enterprise multi-channel clients, integration with CDP and CRM. We help you stop believing in last-click.

05

Data Lake & MCP

Company data lake consolidating marketing, sales, CRM, product, customer service data. Exposure via Model Context Protocol for integration with proprietary and market AI tooling. This is the layer where BIKMA hooks into traffic and conversion data.

06

Reporting, Dashboards, Decisioning

Operational dashboards on Looker Studio, Power BI. Automated reporting, anomaly alerting systems, KPI scorecards for marketing leadership. The output the C-level sees, built on top of the five layers below.

04 · How we work

Five phases, none skippable.

Data audit

We map what’s already there: tracking implemented, events that work and don’t work, gaps against declared KPIs, quality of consent, GDPR posture. It is the only phase in which we deliver “bad news”: we need a true picture to be able to design a new one.

Architecture design

We design the target data architecture: what needs to be collected, from where, where to store, how to transform, how to distribute. Output: a technical spec shared with the client’s internal team, which can also be implemented internally if the client prefers.

Implementation

Technical execution: server-side tagging, enterprise events, CMP integration, data lake build, transformation pipelines (dbt or equivalent), operating dashboards. We work with the client’s IT teams, not in their place.

Validation & monitoring

End-to-end testing of every event, accuracy validation, continuous monitoring of data quality. This is the step most implementers do not invest in — and it is the one that separates a setup that lasts three years from one that breaks after six months.

Activation & governance

The data lake feeds BIKMA, ad platforms, personalisation systems, product analytics tools. Quarterly governance to manage evolution: new events, new integrations, new needs.

05 · KPIs, data sources and stack

Project KPIs Analytics.

KPIWhat it measures
Data Accuracy ScoreHow much the data collected corresponds to what actually happened
Event Coverage% of relevant interactions tracked end-to-end
Consent Rate% of users giving consent to analytics tracking
Cross-domain Attribution Coverage% of journeys reconstructed completely across different domains
Time to InsightAverage time between event and data availability in the dashboard
Data Lake Completeness% of enterprise sources actually integrated into the data lake

Expected results on typical annual projects

60-70%

Initial Data Accuracy

> 95%

Post-implementation Data Accuracy
measured on Fortop audits 2023-2025

70-80%

Optimised Consent Rate

> 90%

Cross-domain Coverage

Reduced Time to Insight from days to hours thanks to the data lake and automated pipelines.

Orders of magnitude, not guarantees. The starting point weighs.

Technical operating stack

Google Tag Manager + GTM Server-Side · GA4 360 enterprise · BigQuery, Snowflake · dbt for data transformation · Looker Studio, Power BI for reporting · iubenda, OneTrust, Didomi, Cookiebot for CMP · Segment, mParticle for CDP · Fortop Data Lake exposed via MCP · direct integrations with enterprise CRMs (Salesforce, HubSpot, Dynamics) and ad platforms (Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok).

06 · When working with us makes sense

Let’s clarify the boundaries.

When we are the right partner

We are the right partner if your company moves significant marketing budgets and those budgets are decided — even partly — by looking at dashboards.

We are the right partner if you operate in a regulated sector where consent management and GDPR compliance are critical, not a tickbox.

We are the right partner if you are in a data-layer consolidation phase (post GA4 migration, post-cookie, pre-AI marketing activation) and need a partner who works with the discipline of an engineering practice.

We are the right partner if you want a data architecture designed to last five years, not just to close the next quarter.

When we are not the right partner

We are not the right partner if you are looking only for afast basic GA4 implementation: there are freelancers and specialised agencies that do that work better than us at lower prices.

We are not the right partner if the priority is the dashboard with the chart, and not the data underneath it: we work poorly in that frame.

We are not the right partner if the client’s IT is structurally closed to collaborations with external consultants: our model presupposes operational integration with internal teams.

07 · Let’s talk

Talk to us about your data layer.