Sitecore Boxever CDP Series -1

As you all know Sitecore acquire the Boxever CDP. Sitecore Boxever is a Customer Data Platform (CDP) which collects the data from any system or channels (Web,Mobile APP and Kiosk and POS). Sitecore CDP is having the capability of Data Management, A/B testing, Decisioning and Personalization.

Sitecore provide the Sandbox environment. Now question is how we will get the access. So to get the access, please complete the Sitecore CDP training from Sitecore eLearning portal. (https://learning.sitecore.com/pathway/boxever-training). After completion of this training you will get the completion certification.

Now send the mail to this email id “‘PartnerEnablement@sitecore.com‘” with your attached certification to get the access on Boxever sandbox environment.

In a week’s time, you will probably have a access to the Sitecore CDP “https://app.boxever.com/” sandbox environment . After logging in to this portal, we can access the portal and view the dashboard given below.

Sitecore CDP provides the following features /functionalities.

Data Collection
Personalization
A/B Testing
Decisioning

In this article we will cover where this CDP product fit in the Sitecore landscape and JavaScript based integration of CDP with Web Channel. In the next article we will cover the all the touchpoints of data collection and provide the integration sample code.

Sitecore Content Hub/Ordercloud/ Experience Manager Integration Diagram.

Sitecore CDP provide following way to integrate the CDP system with all channel to collect the data.

JavaScript Library : t is a lightweight JavaScript library that interacts with target channels to collect data and provides multiple JavaScript functions with multiple touch points to collect data, which we will introduce in the next article.
Integration with Google Tag Manager
Stream API
Rest API
Batch API

Lets start with JavaScript Library integration to capture the Website data. Please follow the following Steps to make the connection between website channel and CDP.

To capture the visitor behavior data from site and pushed to Sitecore CDP , we need to paste a small JavaScript code into our site’s pages. We have to paste this code in head section of page (as example Sitecore website -Layout and Angular site index.html).
To run this code we required the client_key which we will get from Sandbox environment (please see the screen shot below)