Optimizely Data Platform (ODP) harmonizes customer data, which leads to a deeper understanding of your customer's behaviors in real time. ODP collects, stores, and makes available the most relevant data for your business by adhering to a few core concepts:
- Know everything about a customer: who they are and what they have done.
- Identify and resolve who the customer is across all systems.
- Make the platform flexible and adaptable.
- Have great integrations that enable more impactful and informed decisions.
- Make data stored in ODP available through the API.
Get started
After you set up the ODP application for your company, see the developer documentation to implement the ODP JavaScript tag, import your historical data, and sync your ongoing data.
You can complete these steps in any order.
Manage account settings
You can configure and manage your company's ODP settings on the Account Settings page. This is where you manage your account's time zone, alerts for errors in processes you have running in ODP, data objects and fields, compliance requests, and more. For more information, see the user documentation about ODP account settings.
To manage ODP user accounts and their permissions, see the Opti ID user documentation.
Configure additional integrations
You can optionally configure additional integrations to bring more of your ecommerce and customer data into ODP. For information about this, refer to the ODP integration articles. You can also import this data using some of the developer tools (Web SDK, REST API, React Native SDK).
Build segments
When you have customer data loaded and regularly syncing in ODP, you can build segments using the Customers > Segments page. A segment is a subset of your customers described by who they are or what they have done.
Segments help you understand your customer's behaviors and let you react accordingly. You can use the Activation section to run targeted campaigns on your ODP segments or integrate your own campaign management system.
For information about creating segments, see:
- Create standard segments – For customer data greater than 28 days old. Accessible in ODP reports and activations (campaigns).
- Build real-time segments in ODP – For customer events within the last 28 days. You can sync these real-time segments with Optimizely Experimentation and Optimizely Content Management System (CMS).
Analyze customer data using reports
ODP has both pre-built and custom reports, letting you gain even more insights into customer behavior. Go to Company > Reports to familiarize yourself with these reports. For more information, see the user documentation on ODP reports.
Get notified about ODP releases
If you want to stay up-to-date on ODP's new features, follow the current year's ODP release notes.
This ensures that you receive an email notification any time new release notes are published.
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