Adobe Campaign Standard

[#1]

Hi

With the recent developments in Adobe Camapign Standard- does it support complex data models like in V6?.  I am wondering using ACS can we have a back-end SQL database and manage the data flow into the database using ASC (using Adobe I/O?) without the need of another ETL tool?

Thanks

Jobin

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Hi Jobin,

ASC is very limited if you are working with any complex system, You can't extract the whole data model from ASC on a regular basis to an external database. As florent mentioned its not possible to use FDA although you can use flat files in ASC.

Adobe Io is good if you are using ASC data over your website i.e AEM or in Target or in Audience manager.

ASC have really nice capability for reporting(Adobe analytics API's) which is not available to classic users.

@Florent, Do you know any api or tool which we can use to enhance the calender's capabilities in classic version?

Regards,

Amit

[#3]

Hi Jobin,

Currently in ACS you cannot use external data sources like FDA for v6. What you can do is add new resources or extend an existing resource with new fields, as described here in the doc: Custom resources

As for APIs through Adobe I/O, you can see the available APIs here: Adobe Campaign Standard API

Hope this helps,

Florent.

[#4]

Hi Amit,

Thanks for your answer.

What do you mean by enhancing? Happy to gather any feedback you may have. I don't have any in mind but I'll check with the teams.

Thanks you,

Florent.

[#5]

Hi Jobin,

You can add any table or field even if not related to profiles. The limit would depend on the complexity of what you create.

You can export packages but I don't think that you can export all out of the box resources. Package exports

Hope this helps,

Florent.

[#6]

Thanks Florent.

So does custom resources allow you to add any number of additional tables or fields to existing tables as long as it is linked to a profile?

Also can you extract the whole data model from ASC on a regular basis to an external database?

Thanks

Jobin