Connect your Phoenix account to Experience Platform using the UI
This tutorial provides steps on how to connect your Phoenix account and bring data from your Phoenix database to Experience Platform.
Getting started
This tutorial requires a working understanding of the following components of Adobe Experience Platform:
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Experience Data Model (XDM) System: The standardized framework by which Experience Platform organizes customer experience data.
- Basics of schema composition: Learn about the basic building blocks of XDM schemas, including key principles and best practices in schema composition.
- Schema Editor tutorial: Learn how to create custom schemas using the Schema Editor UI.
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Real-Time Customer Profile: Provides a unified, real-time consumer profile based on aggregated data from multiple sources.
If you already have an authenticated Phoenix account, then you may skip the remainder of this document and proceed to the tutorial on configuring a dataflow for a database.
Gather required credentials
In order to access your Phoenix account on Experience Platform, you must provide the following values:
For more information about getting started, refer to this Phoenix document.
Once you have gathered your required credentials, you can follow the steps below to connect your Phoenix account to Experience Platform.
Connect your Phoenix account
In the Platform UI, select Sources from the left navigation to access the sources workspace. The Catalog screen displays a variety of sources available in the Experience Platform sources catalog.
You can select the appropriate category from the catalog on the left-hand side of your screen. Alternatively, you can find a specific source using the search option.
Select Databases from the list of sources categories and then select Add data from the Phoenix card.
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Add data means that there are existing authenticated accounts associated with your selected source.
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Set up means that you must provide credentials and authenticate a new account in order to use your selected source.
The Connect to Phoenix page appears. On this page, you can either use new credentials or existing credentials.
To use an existing account, select Existing account and then select the account that you want to use from the list that appears. When finished, select Next to proceed.
To use a new account, select New account and provide a name, description, and your Phoenix authentication credentials. When finished, select Connect to source and allow for a few seconds for the new connection to establish.
Next steps
By following this tutorial, you have established a connection to your Phoenix account. You can now continue on to the next tutorial and configure a dataflow to bring data into Experience Platform.