Integrate with Acoustic Exchange as a Business Partner

Prerequisites

Acoustic Exchange ecosystem partners can integrate their solutions with {user.ex-short}.

Partners can integrate with {user.ex-short} only after the solution provider completes an account provisioning process. The process includes implementation of {user.ex-short} public APIs, and solution testing in the {user.ex-short} Pilot environment, and review and approval of the solution as an {user.ex-short} endpoint.

Step-by-step

1. Request an Exchange account

Contact the {user.ex-short} Partner team at [email protected] to begin the process of integrating with {user.ex-short} as a business partner.

2. Validate compatibility with Exchange

Validate that your business solution is compatible with {user.ex-short}. Complete the following steps:

Submit and nominate your solution as a candidate for integration with {user.ex-short} as an {user.ex-short} endpoint provider.
Complete a solution review, including a demonstration to Acoustic. You must access the {user.ex-short} Pilot environment to complete this step.
Receive the Ready for Acoustic Exchange mark and sign the associated license agreement.

3. Begin solution review process

To begin the solution review process, implement Acoustic Exchange public APIs and test your solution in the {user.ex-short} Pilot environment. The exact steps depend on the applications with which you want to syndicate event and audience data through Acoustic Exchange.

Acoustic Exchange must give you the access credentials and base URL for API calls to the Pilot environment. The {user.ex-short} Provisioning Team sends the access credentials in a series of email messages to a contact that you must designate.

4. Enable user access

Create a user interface or business process that enables {user.ex-short} users to submit an authentication key to you when they request that you register your endpoint with Acoustic Exchange on their behalf.

Upon completion of the solution review in the Pilot environment, demonstrate the candidate endpoint to Acoustic. Acoustic must approve your solution as an {user.ex-short} endpoint and authorize promotion from the Pilot environment to the Production environment.Acoustic must grant you access to Acoustic Exchange Production and give you the base URL for API calls to the Production environment.

5. Update API call URLs

Change the base URLs of your API calls to {user.ex-short} to point to the {user.ex-short} Production environment.

Expected outcome

After Acoustic Exchange promotes your endpoint to Production, when you receive a registration request and an authentication key from an {user.ex-short} user, you can register as an {user.ex-short} endpoint on behalf of that {user.ex-short} user account. Doing so enables the {user.ex-short} user to syndicate event or audience data that your business solution produces or consumes.