The Future of Adobe Experience Platform Auditor
Over the last decade Adobe has acquired a number companies to help you deliver top-notch customer experiences. Each of these companies came with their own data collection infrastructure which led to complex and oftentimes disjointed implementations. Over the last three years Adobe has re imagined how data collection at scale should be done. This work has culminated in several blockbuster features:
- Adobe Experience Platform Web SDK (AEP Web SDK)
Our latest web SDK that has collapsed and compressed all Adobe JavaScript libraries into one to give you maximum performance on your client-side web properties. - Adobe Experience Platform Edge Network (AEP Edge Network)
Adobe’s supercharged and newly optimized globally distributed and wicked fast edge network is the infrastructure handling traffic for AEP Web SDK. - Adobe Experience Platform Edge Configuration (AEP Edge Configuration)
The days of fiddling with your client-side implementation to deploy new Adobe products are over. When you implement AEP Web SDK you unlock AEP Edge Configuration that lets you literally flip switches to deploy Adobe products server side. - Adobe Experience Platform Experience Data Model (XDM)
The days of tagging in eVars and props are over. With XDM you can maintain any client-side data schema and map it to XDM for plug-and-play functionality with AI and ML frameworks without translating from one schema to another. - Adobe Experience Platform Launch Server Side (Launch Server Side) — coming in H1 2021
Create server-side rules that can transform data sent to AEP Edge Network, enrich that data with non-Adobe stored data, and send it to third-party destinations fast.
All of these features come together to deliver faster, simpler, and more flexible data collection and distribution using Adobe’s battle-tested global infrastructure.
As client-side data collection evolves, so are the tools we deliver to validate these implementations. To focus our attention on the future, Adobe Experience Platform Auditor in its current form, will be sunset on January 29, 2021. Auditor was built to test and score client-side implementations, but as implementations begin to unify on client devices and move more to the server-side, we need new tools.
But don’t worry. To ensure you still have the tools you need to validate your Adobe implementations we have taken a few steps to make this transition as smooth as possible.
All Auditor tests have been added to the new Adobe Experience Platform Debugger browser extension and can run the exact same suite of tests from inside the extension. You can install the extension from these links:
The Auditor tests will be open sourced so you can bake them into your deployment cycles, or run them ad hoc as you see fit.
Adobe has pulled together individuals from across the business that have worked on validation tools for Adobe solutions onto a single team to deliver some exciting new features and products that are coming soon!
While Auditor UI is being sunset, it doesn’t mean Adobe is any less committed to delivering tools to help you inspect, measure the health, and heal your implementations. In fact, we’re doing just the opposite. Instead of reporting on common issues Auditor could find, we are working on solving the common pitfalls from the very beginning and building tools that work across platforms like web and mobile. Adobe has realigned its resources to invest more in this area and we’re more dedicated than ever before.
