Introduction to Customer Data Hub | Getting started

Tealium Customer Data Hub performs the following functions:

Manages client-side data and tag vendors
Collects data from all customer touch-points
Enriches data with powerful attributes
Discovers your most valuable audiences
Manages server-side data and vendor connectors
Stores data in a centralized system

This wide range of functionality is enabled through the use of the following product offerings within Customer Data Hub:

Tealium iQ Tag Management
Tealium EventStream API Hub
Tealium AudienceStream CDP
Tealium Predict ML
Tealium DataAccess

Manage client-side data and tags

Configure and manage your client-side data and vendor tags using iQ Tag Management. Whether it’s activating a data privacy policy, deploying new vendor tags, or customizing your data layer, iQ Tag Management can handle all of your client-side needs. Of course, the most important part of tag management is having a well-defined data layer to keep your data consistent and easy to understand from one implementation to the next. Your data layer is the foundation of your Customer Data Hub solution.

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Collect data with Tealium Collect

It all starts with the data. Collecting data across all of your customer touch-points is the first step towards unlocking the power of Customer Data Hub. Your customers’ engagements with your brand are valuable sources of data. Whether it’s your desktop website, native mobile app, connected device, or custom application, they can all send customer data seamlessly to Customer Data Hub using one of the Tealium installation libraries. Tealium iQ users can get started with sending data to Customer Data Hub even faster with the official Tealium Collect Tag available from the Tag Marketplace.

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Enrich data with attributes and enrichments

Once your data is flowing into Customer Data Hub, you have the ability to enrich it. An enrichment is the application of business logic that transforms data from a static value into a dynamic one. Enriched data are the building blocks for the rest of your Customer Data Hub solution. This enriched data also serves the critical role of creating a unified profile of your visitors across all platforms. Using a specialized attribute called a badge, you can construct a detailed picture of your visitors. As more data flows into Customer Data Hub, your visitors’ profiles become richer as they accumulate more attributes that characterize their behavior.

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Discover audiences

An audience is a collection of visitor profiles that have acquired a shared set of attributes during their engagement with your brand. An audience is the target of a real-time action from one of the many integrations available in the AudienceStream ecosystem (e.g. email, online advertising, social, and customer relationship management). Customer Data Hub provides a number of tools to help you discover and engage your most valuable audiences.

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Send data with connectors

Now that you have all this data flowing through Customer Data Hub, it’s time take action and start powering your digital marketing stack with connectors. A connector is a technical integration between a vendor and Tealium to transmit data in real-time. There are two types of data handled by connectors: audience and event. Customer Data Hub makes it easy to configure a connector to send the specific data needed by the vendor.

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Store data with DataAccess

While the Customer Data Hub handles the flow of data in and out of the system, we think it’s important to remember that you own this data and should have direct access to it. For the specific purpose of providing longer-term storage of your valuable data, we offer DataAccess as an enterprise-class solution. The same audience and event data that fuels your connectors can also be stored as structured data in a database or as semi-structured data in log files.

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