Adobe Experience Platform release notes
Release date: February 18, 2025
Updates to existing features and documentation in Adobe Experience Platform:
AI Assistant ai-assistant
AI Assistant in Adobe Experience Platform is a conversational experience that you can use to accelerate your workflows in Adobe applications. You can use AI Assistant to better understand product knowledge, troubleshoot problems, or search through information and find operational insights. AI Assistant supports Experience Platform, Real-Time Customer Data Platform, Adobe Journey Optimizer, and Customer Journey Analytics.
New features
For more information, read the AI Assistant overview.
Catalog Service catalog-service
Catalog Service is the system of record for data location and lineage within Adobe Experience Platform. While all data that is ingested into Experience Platform is stored in the data lake as files and directories, Catalog holds the metadata and description of those files and directories for lookup and monitoring purposes.
For more information on Catalog Service, read the Catalog Service overview.
Data Prep data-prep
Use data prep to map, transform, and validate data to and from Experience Data Model (XDM).
New or updated features
For more information, read the Data Prep overview.
Destinations (updated February 20) destinations
Destinations are pre-built integrations with destination platforms that allow for the seamless activation of data from Adobe Experience Platform. You can use destinations to activate your known and unknown data for cross-channel marketing campaigns, email campaigns, targeted advertising, and many other use cases.
New or updated destinations
New or updated functionality
Important: When searching for destination dataflows using the search box at the top of the Experience Platform user interface, the results may include destination dataflows which your user access labels restrict you from seeing. This behavior will be corrected in a future update.
Fixes and enhancements
- An issue in the Destination SDK testing tools has been fixed. Some customers or partners were encountering issues with the sample profile generation tool due to an unsupported format when the schema used for generating profiles included data types with a
No format
selector. - An issue when updating the
targetConnection
spec of destinations, using the Flow Service API, has been fixed. In some cases, the PATCH operation would behave similarly to a POST operation, corrupting existing dataflows. This issue is now fixed and all customers can use the Flow Service API to update theirtargetConnection
spec. Read more. - When exporting profiles to file-based destinations, deduplication ensures that only one profile is exported when multiple profiles share the same deduplication key and the same reference timestamp. This release includes an update to the deduplication process, ensuring that successive runs with the same coordinates will always produce the same results, improving consistency. Read more.
For more information, read the destinations overview.
Segmentation Service segmentation-service
Segmentation Service defines a particular subset of profiles by describing the criteria that distinguishes a marketable group of people within your customer base. Segments can be based on record data (such as demographic information) or time series events representing customer interactions with your brand.
New or updated features
For more information on Segmentation Service, please see the Segmentation overview.
Sources sources
Experience Platform provides a RESTful API and an interactive UI that lets you set up source connections for various data providers with ease. These source connections allow you to authenticate and connect to external storage systems and CRM services, set times for ingestion runs, and manage data ingestion throughput.
Use sources in Experience Platform to ingest data from an Adobe application or a third-party data source.
Updated feature
"entityType": "view"
when using the Microsoft Dynamics source. For more information, read the guide on connecting a Microsoft Dynamics source to Experience Platform.For more information, read the sources overview.
Documentation updates documentation-updates
Edge Network and hub comparison edge
The Edge Network and hub comparison provides an overview detailing the differences between the two server types for Adobe Experience Platform (hub and Edge Network), including what services are available on each server type, locations of the servers, as well as recommended scenarios for using each server type.
Expanded Flow Service API reference for sources flow-service
The Flow Service API reference for sources has been updated with new API request and response examples. Use the expanded API reference to create and update connection specs when integrating your own source to Experience Platform. You can also use the expanded API reference to perform state transitions on your sources entities, update existing source and target connections, and retrieve flows and flow specs given a specific filtering criteria.
Back up object configurations using sandbox tooling back-up-object-configurations
Read the back up object configuration guide for step-by-step instructions on creating a backup package using sandbox tooling to ensure your object configurations are stored and secured.
Enable a center of excellence using sandbox tooling center-of-excellence
Read the center of excellence guide for step-by-step instructions on creating a “golden sandbox” package that acts as a center of excellence to efficiently share key configurations.
Experience Event Dataset Retention in the data lake experience-event-dataset-retention
Take control of Experience Event Dataset Retention in Adobe Experience Platform using Time-To-Live (TTL). This guide walks you through evaluating, configuring, and managing TTL settings to automatically remove outdated records, optimize storage, and keep your data relevant. Discover best practices, real-world use cases, and key considerations to enhance your data lifecycle management.