PUBLISHED DATE: 2025-08-24 21:58:19

THE CLEAR PICTURE

Publicis Sapient and Adobe: Transforming Real-Time Data into Customer Delight

Real-time data is the key to knowing your customers and anticipating where their journey will take them. However, the availability of consumer data is changing rapidly. With new privacy legislation and the decreased availability of third-party tracking, traditional means of gathering data to inform your decisions are becoming less effective and reliable.

A Consumer Data Platform (CDP) addresses this challenge by connecting a company’s own first-party data with second- and third-party data in real time, creating actionable insights that deliver more value for your customers and clearer strategies for you.

Why Today’s Market Requires a CDP

  1. Smart, effective interactions require a clear view of each customer.
    Customer data continues to expand across an ever-increasingly fragmented ecosystem of channels, applications, and groups. With that change comes better tools for integrating multiple sources of data—first-, second-, and third-party—that create a real-time snapshot of your customer.
  2. Consumers demand connected and seamless experiences throughout their journey.
    The very way your company delivers experiences is changing with new consumer demands. Often, this means transforming a myriad of distinct systems and processes into a platform of integrated experiences powered by data at the core. Fluid access to current customer data is the key to orchestrating and delivering relevant, personalized messages that meet today’s consumer expectations.
  3. You require a higher ROI on marketing investments.
    Real-time data gives you the ability to rapidly test and develop immediate insights throughout the journey that can instantly be put to use through segmentation and dynamic audience creation, driving better performance and outcomes. Using a CDP, companies improve customer outcomes by infusing shared intelligence and triggers into traditionally disparate applications, such as e-commerce and marketing, systems of acquisition, systems of retention, data management platforms, and customer relationship management systems.

With the integrated customer-data solutions of Publicis Sapient and Adobe, instead of guessing the next step on the customer’s journey, you’ll be there to meet them.

Adobe Experience Platform — A Modern CDP

Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) builds on traditional CDP approaches with an open and extensible platform that stitches together known and unknown customer data from across the enterprise. It creates unified real-time customer profiles, orchestrates journeys with continuous intelligence and governance, and activates personalized experiences across any Adobe Experience Cloud or non-Adobe channel.

Within the Adobe Experience Cloud:

Beyond Adobe Experience Cloud activations, AEP has over 200 prebuilt integrations for non-Adobe activation destinations and an open API architecture for extending AEP anywhere.

Stream Data:

Unify Profiles and Orchestrate Journeys:

Activate Audiences:

Power unified customer profiles. Simplify data modeling. Streamline governance. Enable real-time insights. Deliver personalized experiences anywhere.

An Outcome-Oriented Approach

AEP can enable a wide variety of use cases across the end-to-end customer journey, increasing engagement, improving conversions, and building loyalty. Publicis Sapient believes all technology discussions should begin with the end in mind—understanding the outcomes you are looking to achieve—which is why we created and use the PS HOW framework.

Depending on where you are in your journey, we can assist you in identifying the largest opportunities to transform your business through our Ignite and Hunt activities. For clients who have already determined their vision, we work with them to prioritize the most valuable customer journeys to explore through Shape activities. Once the priorities are determined, we work to Incubate solutions through technology Proof of Concepts (POCs) to enhance confidence in the viability of the solution approach.

The result leads to investing in Build & Scale activities that deliver real outcomes.

AEP in Action

The use cases for Adobe Experience Platform are abundant across industries, functions, and the end-to-end customer journey.

Media and Marketing:

A CDP can assist with media activities including search engine optimization, targeted media, behavioral marketing, lead generation, and brand management.

Digital Experience:

CDPs enable all aspects of the digital experience—from personalization to user experience to product selection and fulfillment.

Customer Loyalty:

Assemble up-to-date profiles to provide insights about valuable customers, enhance loyalty programs, and provide excellent service.

PS is Here to Help

Our team of data engineers, data scientists, and marketing experts from across Publicis Groupe work closely with your marketing, business, and IT teams to design, implement, and sustain your CDP solution. Our services include:

Big Data Engineering:

Big data is the lifeblood of effective business decisions. We help clients to collect, cleanse, store, and aggregate first-, second-, and third-party customer data from ad impressions, e-commerce, digital interactions, transactions, social, and even from the Internet of Things.

Customer Identity Mapping:

Customer identity is the key to targeted, impactful marketing, but customers must trust that their data is secure and protected. We stitch together customer data both deterministically and probabilistically for different use cases, giving marketers what they need while building trust among customers.

Master Data Management:

Data straddles various applications and systems within a business, making it difficult to have a single version of the truth. Through master data management, we help companies to maintain customer, product, location, and other data to enable a single cohesive view.

AI/ML Development:

Every organization must become a technology organization to survive, and that involves adopting emerging technologies including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Our platform capabilities allow clients to build, test, and deploy AI/ML models at scale and feed the outcomes to other tools and APIs.

Channel Integration:

Integrating channels—web, mobile, e-commerce ads, store, customer experience, and marketing—and layering in the outputs from the AI/ML engine can improve segmentation and personalization to drive better campaigns and customer activation.

Publicis Sapient: Your Partner in Digital Transformation

Publicis Sapient is a globally managed Platinum Adobe Solution Partner with multiple Adobe Specializations and a deep talent pool of Adobe Experience Platform certified resources. Publicis Sapient has a strong history of implementing Customer Data Platform solutions and has a history of innovating with Adobe prior to and since the general availability release of Adobe Experience Platform in 2019. Industry analysts have independently recognized Publicis Sapient as a global leader in Adobe Implementation Services and a good fit for companies with data-driven engagement models and strong brand differentiation.

We’re the right choice to help you get from now to next while maximizing your Adobe investments, transforming your data into a strategic asset, and ultimately driving more relevant real-time customer engagement across all of your digital products and channels. Adobe has named us their Partner of the Year seven times—a feat no other Adobe partner has achieved.

Let’s Talk

Discover how to fully harness your data sources and create real-time customer profiles with Publicis Sapient and Adobe.

Contact us for a review of how our capabilities and Adobe Experience Platform solutions can empower your decision-making and delight your customers.

CINDY SAUCEDO
Adobe Alliance Lead, NA
cindy.saucedo@publicissapient.com

Together We Take Digital Experiences Into Tomorrow

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting, and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. As digital pioneers with 20,000 people and 53 offices around the globe, our experience spanning technology, data sciences, consulting, and customer obsession—combined with our culture of curiosity and relentlessness—enables us to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value. Publicis Sapient is the digital business transformation hub of Publicis Groupe.

For more information, visit publicissapient.com.