The Adobe Experience Cloud (AEC) comes with its very own Tag Management System (TMS). With Adobe Launch, by Adobe, implementing a basic set of AEC tools like Analytics or Target is quick and easy. That ease of implementation regarding Adobe’s own tools comes with the possible downside of having to put in more work for non-Adobe tools. Depending on how important those Adobe tools are to you, Launch might be your first choice as TMS regardless. Unfortunately, Launch is not ideal when it comes to more complex setups. For example, having a chain of actions that needs to be executed in a specific order can require some manual workarounds, like putting steps into separate rules. The same is true for guaranteed conditional execution within rules, which requires either custom code actions or branching rules into multiple others. I have seen setups with literally hundreds of rules because of those restrictions. […]
Category: Tag Management
Using Adobe Launch ? for configuration management
Adobe Launch (, by Adobe) ist the tag manager that comes for free with the Adobe Experience Cloud. You can use it to manage and orchestrate all the marketing tags on your websites (not only from Adobe) and reduce integration efforts for the mobile Adobe SDKs to just copy-pasting from the launch interface. For a tutorial, look below on this post. Launch is the successor to the Adobe Dynamic Tag Manager (DTM) which was used in the past, formerly known as Satellite. In 2018 Adobe announced plans to retire DTM fully by 2021 (source: https://medium.com/launch-by-adobe/dtm-plans-for-a-sunset-3c6aab003a6f). So if you are still using DTM, you should start migrating to Launch, which is only a one-click-action under ideal circumstances. Launch can host scripts for pre-tailored use cases (called Extensions) or custom code. With rules, we define when and where things should happen. Last, Data Elements let us define variables that we can use […]