OCP Overview

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Beta

Optimizely Connect Platform (OCP) is in beta and currently only works with Optimizely Graph in Optimizely Content Management System (CMS) (SaaS) and CMS (PaaS).

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Difference between Connect Platform and OCP

Connect Platform for Optimizely Data Platform (ODP) is the first version of Connect Platform and uses the ODP database, so it is only compatible with ODP.

Optimizely Connect Platform (OCP) is the second version of OCP and provides its own flexible database that you can personalize to fit your needs, so it will eventually be compatible with all Optimizely products. It also includes a user interface (UI) for an end-user-friendly way to manage data syncs to other Optimizely products.

Optimizely Connect Platform (OCP) lets you connect data from external systems with Optimizely products. OCP consists of the following components:

• Database – Each OCP account has an underlying, flexible database that you can extend to ingest object data from any source. This database lets you get your third-party data into a format that is consumable by other Optimizely products for seamless integrations. You can import data to the OCP database using any of the following options:
  • Point-and-click apps built on the OCP developer platform. OCP provides some apps by default, and you can build your own using the OCP developer platform.
  • Sync CSV files to OCP's dedicated S3 bucket. You can do a one-time import or configure the import on a recurring basis.
  • Directly sync data to the OCP API with a tool (like Tray.ai) or a custom solution.
• Developer platform – A serverless compute platform, development environment, and app marketplace where you can build and publish OCP apps that connect data to the OCP database without configuring or maintaining infrastructure. This is only required if you want to build custom point-and-click apps to import data to the OCP database.
• User interface – After you get the necessary data into the OCP database, you can access the OCP UI to install apps, configure and manage data syncs to other Optimizely products, visualize the database, and more.

User interface

When you log into OCP, you land on the App Directory, where you can install and configure any of the available apps to import data into the OCP database. This is also where any custom apps you build are listed.

After you import the necessary data, use the Sync Manager to create and manage the data syncs between OCP and your other Optimizely products.

Visualize your OCP database on the Objects & Fields page. You can also manually create any necessary objects, fields, and relationships.

While the Sync Manager provides details about each sync (successes and errors), you can go to Settings > Activity Log to review a detailed list of any errors that occurred with your data syncs or installed apps.