Replacement Guide

How to Build Your Own Adobe Real-Time CDP

Replace Adobe Real-Time CDP with a custom build. Build customer profiles that power real-time experiences.

Weekend Project
33 features10 integrationsOne weekend

Estimated Timeline

Based on 33 features at Weekend Project difficulty, expect about One weekend with AI-assisted development.

1
Setup & scaffolding
2 hours
2
Core features
4-6 hours
3
Polish & deploy
2 hours

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Key Features to Replicate

Top features across 8 categories. See all 33 features

Data Governance(7 features)

Consent Collection

Transparent tools for consent collection to manage customer data responsibly

Consumer Data Request Management

Manage consumer data requests with both an API and user-friendly interface

Data Labeling

Data labeling tools for enterprise data governance

Data Source and Policy Visibility

View data sources and policies before activating audiences

Policy Creation and Enforcement

Policy creation and data usage enforcement to ensure compliance

+2 more in this category

Audience Management(5 features)

Audience AgentAI

Easily create actionable audiences with Audience Agent and proactive AI-powered insights to keep campaigns on target and relevant

Centralized Audience Management

Manage audiences for your entire business centrally, even those built in other applications

Look-Alike AudiencesAI

Find new customers and respond to changing behaviors with look-alike audiences

Real-Time Audience Activation

Activate B2C and B2B audiences in real time on Adobe and non-Adobe marketing applications

Real-Time Segmentation

Instant grouping of users based on live data including current behavior, recent actions, or up-to-date attributes

Data Integration(4 features)

Data Collection and Distribution

Real-Time CDP Connections streamlines how data is collected and distributed to Adobe Experience Platform and other systems and tools

Federated Audience Augmentation

Augment audiences with profiles federated from AWS Redshift, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Databricks, Google BigQuery, and Snowflake

Real-Time Data Streaming

Stream data for real-time insights and faster time to market

Third-Party Data Integration

Prospect new audiences from third-party data partners backed by durable identifiers that don't rely on third-party cookies

Automation(3 features)

Customer Journey Orchestration

Orchestrate customer journeys on an easy-to-use canvas

Data Engineering AgentAI

Automate data onboarding and SQL prep with Data Engineering Agent

Prebuilt Workflows

Boost efficiency with prebuilt workflows that consider how data sources are used to create audience groups before activating them

Analytics(2 features)

Cross-Device Understanding

Understand customers across their devices to improve engagement

Propensity ScoringAI

Predict the likelihood of conversion with propensity scoring

Collaboration(2 features)

Collaboration-Based Audience Activation

Real-Time CDP Collaboration enables joint activation to reach prospects and customers across channels while prioritizing privacy

Joint Audience Analysis

Real-Time CDP Collaboration simplifies how organizations can drive joint audience analysis with collaboration partners

Data Management(2 features)

Real-Time Profile Enrichment

Enrich customer profiles and audiences in real time with attributes from data partners that help to fuel personalization

Unified Profiles

Unify and normalize known and pseudonymous customer data across all online and offline sources to create real-time, actionable B2B and B2C customer profiles

Integrations(2 features)

Pre-Built Advertising Integrations

Quickly reach your audience with pre-built, advertising-focused integrations using durable identifiers

Third-Party Platform Connections

Connect data to systems and tools such as Facebook and Google while improving site performance

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