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About this topic collection

The left-side navigation (from top to bottom) in this topic collection uses a verb-based approach to loosely organize around the series of actions that you may do when configuring Amperity.

Note

This left-to-right configuration workflow is most common whenever you add new data sources to Amperity.

This is because that workflow typically requires adding couriers, applying semantic tags, making domain tables available to Stitch, refactoring your customer 360 database (or other databases, as needed), and then making those results available to queries and/or segments, depending on the types of downstream workflows you need to support.

As you do these steps, you will move from the top toward the bottom of the left-side navigation in Amperity. For example: Sources > Stitch > Customer 360, and so on.

The left-side navigation has sections for the following activities:

  1. Using a sandbox to make configuration changes, validating those changes in the sandbox, and then promoting those changes to your production tenant.

  2. Managing data sources, including ensuring semantic tags are applied to raw data, and ensuring that data tables that are made available to the Stitch process are in the right shapes for your business requirements.

  3. Running Stitch and validating those results.

  4. Building your customer 360 database and managing any other databases and tables that are required to support your business requirements.

  5. Managing destinations, including configuring them so that data analysts and marketers in your organization can use Amperity to build queries and send data to downstream workflows and/or define audiences and campaigns that can be sent to a variety of marketing channels.

  6. Configuring certain end-to-end workflows to run on a defined schedule.

About your Amperity tenant

Customers use Amperity in many different ways:

  • AmpID for identity resolution and management

  • Amp360 for complete customer profiles

  • AmpIQ for customer intelligence and activation

  • DataGrid as a power grid for customer data

A tenant is an instance of Amperity that supports all of these combinations from a common starting state:

  • An empty Sources page that is ready to be configured to pull data to Amperity from any location.

  • A Stitch page shows the results of processing all of the data that was pulled to Amperity.

  • A Customer 360 page, in which a database is built using the output of the Stitch process as the starting point.

  • A Queries page that runs queries against the customer 360 to return subsets of data.

  • An empty Destinations page that is ready to be configured to send results of queries made in the Segments page to any downstream process.

Customers who use AmpIQ will have the following additional pages:

  • A Segments page that builds segments against the customer 360 for use with campaigns.

  • A Metrics page that contains a series of metrics cards that track core business outcomes.

  • A Campaigns page that allows you to define campaigns, and then send messages or offers specific group of customers or recipients

Included SFTP site

Every Amperity tenant includes an SFTP site with a hostname of <tenant>.sftp.amperity.com. For example, if your company name is ACME, then your tenant’s SFTP hostname is acme.sftp.amperity.com. (The hostname is always all lowercase.)

Note

The SFTP site is provisioned by an Amperity administrator after the initial tenant creation. As such, the SFTP site is not immediately available, but this is not a long process. When the SFTP site is ready, Amperity will use SnapPass to send you the connection details. If you wish to use RSA key-based authentication, please provide the public key to your Amperity administrator when requesting SFTP access.

Once this site is provisioned, you may configure the SFTP site as an SFTP source or an SFTP destination to support any desired workflow. External customer processes can be configured to connect to the site using SFTP, after which they can add data to or pick up data from the site to support any external workflow.

Caution

The SFTP server has a 30-day limit on data and after 30 days, data may be moved automatically to an archive location. This location is still accessible to Amperity in case it becomes necessary to reuse it.

Important

The hostname for the SFTP site is always <tenant-name>.sftp.amperity.com. Some older tenants may still be using the legacy address sftp.amperity.com, if so, please contact your Amperity administrator about migrating.

Log in to Amperity

You must provide your credentials to Amperity in order to log in.

To log in to Amperity

  1. Open https://app.amperity.com in your web browser. Google Chrome is recommended.

  2. When prompted, provide your Amperity credentials.

    Note

    Most credentials are configured to use some form of single sign-on (SSO), but may be configured to use usernames and passwords, depending on how user access is configured for your tenant.

  3. Click LOG IN.

Supported browsers

Amperity works best with Google Chrome and works fine with Chromium-based browsers, such as Brave.

Amperity is not supported from Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, or from mobile/tablet devices.

Example workflow

Configuring Amperity requires the use of a sandbox, which is an instance of your production tenant in which you can safely make configuration changes.

Users who configure Amperity are assigned two policies:

  • The DataGrid Operator policy allows users to work in the production tenant but does not allow them to make configuration changes.

  • The DataGrid Administrator policy allows those users to make configuration changes from a sandbox.

When configuration changes are ready, they can be promoted from the sandbox to the production tenant.

Make configuration changes to Amperity in a sandbox.

The numbers in the previous diagram represent a scenario that adds a new data source that contains customer records to Amperity:

  1. Open your Amperity production tenant and verify that it is ready for the new data source.

  2. Switch to your sandbox, and then pull any updates to the sandbox.

  3. Add the courier, apply semantic tags, and then make this table available to Stitch. Verify the data in the domain table after it has loaded successfully to Amperity.

  4. Run Stitch, and then update the customer 360 database and/or any custom databases that require the new data. Build and run queries and/or segments that require the new data, and then verify the results.

  5. Review the changes in the sandbox, and then work with your Amperity representative to promote those changes to your production tenant.

  6. Verify that all of the changes and updated workflows complete successfully.

Note

Users who are assigned the DataGrid Operator and DataGrid Administrator policies are also assigned the Amp360 User policy. The ANALYZE topic collection describes the actions that are available to users who are assigned the Amp360 User policy.

If your tenant is configured for AmpIQ, users who are assigned the DataGrid Operator and DataGrid Administrator policies are also assigned the AmpIQ User policy. The CAMPAIGN topic collection describes the actions that are available to users who are assigned the AmpIQ User policy.