10 steps to launching Adobe Real-Time CDP
A comprehensive hub for all customer information, Adobe Real-Time CDP drives easier integration, segmentation and personalization. Explore how to get more out of your customer data platform (CDP).

Every day, avenues for reaching target audiences fragment and multiply. In this splintered landscape, customers expect deep and intuitive personalization. How can a business learn from the preferences of individual users across so many platforms and devices, driving personalized experiences?
That’s where a customer data platform comes in.
In this guide, you'll learn:
- What a CDP is, how it works and why we like Adobe Real-Time CDP
- How to define business objectives and outline initial use cases
- How to collect data and prepare it to be loaded into Adobe Real-Time CDP
- The proper way to build out customer profiles, segments or schema
Ready to enable more personalized customer experiences?
The growth marketing ecosystem is shifting as new technologies, use cases and expectations emerge daily. Amid cross-enterprise data silos, consumers clamor for more personalized brand interactions.
A CDP is a hub for customer profiles — across multiple channels and platforms — driving easier integration, segmentation and customer personalization. A customer might interact with a brand across many digital touchpoints in a single day, and these customer experiences occur across multiple devices. That single customer might exhibit different characteristics or share unique information on their mobile device versus their tablet, laptop or wearable device.
The problem is clear: Different parts of a business hold different parts of a customer’s data. A CDP breaks down these silos and houses all customer data in one central location, enabling more personalized experiences.
While there are many CDPs, Adobe Real-Time CDP — an integral part of the Adobe Experience Cloud — offers distinct advantages. This guidebook will help you understand and activate those advantages to maximize your CDP investment and drive real business growth.
