Apache Unomi™: The Open Source Customer Data Platform
Apache Unomi™ (pronounced "You know me") is a Java Open Source customer data platform, a Java server designed to manage customers, leads and visitors data and help personalize customers experiences while also offering features to respect visitor privacy rules (such as GDPR)
News
Version 1.6 released !
Groovy actions REST API
- Deploy Groovy actions directly through API
- Makes it possible to use Groovy actions in cloud deployments!
Rule engine optimization
- Rule are now associated to event types in memory
- Only rules related to incoming event are evaluated
- Changes rule engine performance from exponential to linear when rules are added
Lots of smaller fixes/improvements
- Log4j upgrades
- Docker support improvements
- Segment and score process fixes
- Lots more details here
Find more details on the event's page.
First Apache Unomi meetup !
The event was held on Nov 18th, 2021 from 1600 to 1800 CET. See the event's page for information about viewing the recorded session.
Version 1.5 released !
ElasticSearch 7 support
- New data model to support ElasticSearch 7 and up
- Better compatibility with Kibana
- Migration tool updated to make the upgrade from the old to the new data model seamless
Docker / Cloud improvements
- Official Docker image now on Docker Hub!
- Improved Docker project to be in line with latest project builds
Profiles
- Added last updated property to profiles to make it easy to query last modified profiles
Actions
- It is now possible to build Unomi actions using Groovy scripts inside a plugin
JDK support
- Both JDK 11 and JDK 8 are now supported.
Kafka support
- Initial Kafka consumer support
Version 1.4.0 released !
Container/Cloud deployments
- Centralized configuration compatible with Docker environment variables
- New Dockerfile and Docker Compose project files (official Apache Unomi Docker image coming soon!)
Event, rules, profiles management and tools
- New Karaf Shell Commands to view events, sessions and profiles, analyze rule executions, view incoming events, and much more...
- Endpoint to search in events has been added
- New patch system to improve modifying default definitions (rules, segments, ???)
Data collection
- Analytics.js integration, providing an out-of-the-box ready-to-use web tracker
Version 1.3.0 introduced Privacy (GPDR consent management) features
New in release 1.3.0 are features to manage visitor consents, in order to make it easier to comply with new privacy regulations such as the GDPR. A quick guide to these new features is also available here.
Why would you need a Customer Data Platform ?
Organizations collect data from multiple sources and channels - sales, web, emails, mobile, brick and mortar - and all of this data is spread across different departments and technologies. As a result, many professionals are lacking the data they need to do their job, especially data analysts and marketers.
A customer data platform helps business users collect all the customer data in one place, providing a complete view of the customers. When the data is collected, the customer data platform will also play a key role in choosing which content or offer is more relevant to a customer.
The Apache Unomi™ advantage ?
Each organization is unique and will always have specific needs, this is why Apache Unomi™ has been designed to be extended and to ease the integration of external data. The embedded features such as segmentation, scoring and built-in privacy will be appreciated by business users while horizontal scalability and open source positioning will be loved by developers and architects.
Apache Unomi™ is also the reference implementation of the upcoming OASIS Context Server Customer Data Platform (CDP) standard (https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/cxs/) to help standardize personalization of customer experience while promoting ethical web experience management and increased user privacy controls.
Business cases based on Apache Unomi™ ?
- Build a web personalization software to adapt the content on your website to your audience
- Collect data from mobile application and feed Apache Unomi™ to track and understand your customers??? journeys
- Connect the beacons deployed in your stores to Apache Unomi™ and consolidate the profile of your customers and leads across all these channels
- Automatically push profiles from Apache Unomi™ to your CRM when a lead reach a given number of points in one of your scoring plans
Apache Unomi™ logical architecture
All communication is done using HTTP REST requests and JSON data formats.
For developers
- Uses ElasticSearch for data storage, dynamic data structure
- Highly scalable architecture
- Very simple to deploy and install (simply unzip & run)
- Uses Apache Karaf™ as the OSGi runtime
- Full & simple REST API
- Extensible through plugin architecture (using OSGi & simple JSON descriptors)
- Apache Open Source project
For IT stakeholders and business users
- First-Party Data Collection and Ownership
- Persistent and consolidated profiles for all your audience (customers & leads), storing anonymous and personally identifiable information
- Regulation-proof and privacy management built-in
- Real-Time Decisioning (Scoring logics, segmentation)
- Open standard, easy integration and extension
News
- 2021-07-27 Released version 1.5.7
- 2021-05-10 Released version 1.5.6
- 2021-04-27 Released version 1.5.5
- 2020-11-23 Released version 1.5.4
- 2020-11-21 Released version 1.5.3
- 2020-11-01 Released version 1.5.2
- 2020-05-14 Released version 1.5.1
- 2020-05-09 Released version 1.5.0
- 2019-05-24 Released version 1.4.0
- 2019-02-21 Top Level Project promoted!
- 2018-09-10 Released version 1.3.0-incubating
- 2017-09-28 Released version 1.2.0-incubating
- 2017-07-19 New Salesforce CRM connector contributed
- 2016-10-04 Released version 1.1.0-incubating
- 2016-05-22 Released version 1.0.0-incubating
- 2015-11-23 Initial code base import in Git repository
- 2015-11-20 Added Apache Maturity Model report page
- 2015-11-13 Initial web site created
- 2015-10-20 JIRA, mailing lists, git, website space created.
- 2015-10-05 Project enters incubation.
Articles & slides
Checkout the latest articles and slides
Apache & OpenSource.
Unomi™ is your project ! Unomi™ is an Apache Software Foundation project, available under the Apache v2 license. It's a complete open community, always listening proposals and comments. Sources, mailing lists, issue tracker: it's fully open, you can access directly. We also love contributions : don't hesitate to contribute.
