Step 3: Send data to Adobe Experience Platform when upgrading
Before you continue with this section, first make sure you have completed all previous upgrade tasks.
The information on this page covers Step 3 of the upgrade process, as highlighted in the table below:
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| Upgrade task | Details |
| Step 1: Get started with the upgrade | Learn the benefits of upgrading to Customer Journey Analytics and the basic upgrade process. |
| Step 2: Choose the upgrade path | Various methods are available for upgrading to Customer Journey Analytics. Choose the method that is best for your organization, depending on your organization’s current Adobe Analytics environment and long-term goals. |
| Step 3: Send data to Adobe Experience Platform | The process for sending data to Adobe Experience Platform differs depending on the upgrade path that you chose in Step 2. |
| Step 4: Retain historical data | Most organizations need to retain their historical Adobe Analytics data for a certain amount of time. Various options are available to accomplish this. |
| Step 5: Perform additional implementation tasks |
At this point in the upgrade process, you need to perform various tasks before your Customer Journey Analytics environment is ready to use. These additional tasks apply to upgrades from Adobe Analytics as well as new Customer Journey Analytics implementations. These tasks include:
For more information, see Customer Journey Analytics Getting Started. |
After you choose the upgrade path that is best for your organization, you can begin sending data to Adobe Experience Platform in order to make it available in Customer Journey Analytics.
The process for sending data to Experience Platform for each upgrade path is shown below. Follow the links in the table for detailed configuration information.
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Create an XDM schema for your organization.
Work with your data team to identify your organization’s ideal schema design for Customer Journey Analytics.
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Implement the Experience Platform Web SDK.
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Send data to Platform.
For detailed information about each of these steps, see Ingest data via the Adobe Experience Platform Web SDK.
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Move your existing Adobe Analytics implementation to the Experience Platform Web SDK, then validate that everything is working in Adobe Analytics.
For information about how to do this, use the following resources, depending on whether your current implementation is the Analytics tag extension or AppMeasurement:
- If you are using the Analytics tag extension, see Migrate from the Adobe Analytics tag extension to the Web SDK tag extension
- If you are using AppMeasurement, see Migrate from AppMeasurement to the Web SDK
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Create an XDM schema for your organization.
Work with your data team to identify your organization’s ideal schema design for Customer Journey Analytics.
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Use Data Prep to map all of the fields in the data object to your XDM schema.
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Begin sending data to Platform by setting up a datastream.
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Begin sending data to Platform by setting up a datastream.
Because your Adobe Analytics implementation is already using the Experience Platform Web SDK, you can ignore the other sections in Ingest data via the Adobe Experience Platform Web SDK.
If you are already sending data to Platform with your Adobe Analytics implementation, this step is not required. You simply need to create a connection between Platform datasets and Customer Journey Analytics, as described later in this process.
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(Optional) Create an XDM schema for your organization.
Work with your data team to identify your organization’s ideal schema design for Customer Journey Analytics.
Note: For information about the advantages of creating an XDM schema, see Choose your schema.
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(Conditional) If you created an XDM schema, use Data Prep to map all of the fields in the data object to your XDM schema.
Next, retain historical data
Next, decide how you will retain historical Adobe Analytics data.