Calling Adobe Campaign just to send emails

Hi Vendimb,

So many cases that it is a bit difficult to give you correct advices and exemples codes depend on choices made.
Perhaps do you need some help from Adobe Campaign consultant team or AC integrator companies.

But let's try to sum up the different cases.

True real-time needed

Your source application and/or recommandation engine calls in real-time a Web Service (Adobe Campaign SOAP Call) for every message to an user, it means 1 SOAP call "sends" 1 message delivery to this contact.
So the WS response time must be excellent.

It means usually, for a medium volume of WS calls per day, let say, a few hundred of thousands (but it is up to Adobe company or Integrator companies that would accompany you to confirm it, even it is written as is in Adobe Campaign Message Center documentation).

It means also that you should have dedicated MTA servers/instance for this realtime behavior, not using the marketing instance.

For a small volume per day, let say, 10.000 messages per day, you can think differently, not having a dedicated instance/MTA servers nor Message Center, and doing the same job using standard Adobe Campaign delivery module, with help of submitNotification Javascript method.Not recommanded but it works well.

Technically speaking, the html content (or the raw text content), in your case, is a WS parameter (XML for rtEvent Message Center, and XML or JSON for direct call to SOAP Adobe Campaign services).

In your use case, the delivery template contains nothing else than the personalisation code passed by parameter for the html content (as well for the raw text content).

Please refer to Message Center documentation if you want to know the development involved.
In case of small volume (not your case!) not using Message Center, the basic principles are the same:
1. a Web Service (you define the method to call in the methods section of the dedicated delivery mapping to use, as better way to implement it), that stores calls parameter and creates lines in the mapping target table (recipient or specifically dedicated schema)

2. there is a workflow that basically loop regularly (every 1 up to 3 minutes) on the lines created in the mapping target, and then do that kind of things:

3. the template called must be a Continuous delivery

But again, because Message Center is included in your contract, it is far better to use it than specific coding.

Batch mode only needed

You can manage high volume (as millions of mails) with your marketing instance, because all the messages to your contacts are sent in "slices", using the all the power of Adobe Campaign. Defining waves, using recurrent or continuous deliveries (to my mind continous is better).

Basically, an easy solution is to create a workflow with:

an activity to load the template

an activity to load the target contacts list

So for instance, the delivery content can be set by your JS loop either by using one of this method:

• delivery.content.html.source
  delivery.content.text.source
  see documentation here for FTP activity to set it:
  https://docs.campaign.adobe.com/doc/AC/en/WKF_Use_cases_Loading_delivery_content_using_FTP.html
• or the submitDelivery method itself (JSON or XML content defined in the call directly) that I indicated you in my previous post

Regarding the targets list load activity, Florent has indicated in his post the different ways to do it, and I gave it also hereinbefore.

Hope I could help you enough for your architecture choice.

Regards
J-Serge