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Use optimized contacts in marketing campaigns
After you optimize the proposed contacts, you must retrieve the optimized contacts from Unica Optimize to send marketing communications to these contacts.
Select optimized contacts
To bring the optimized contacts into Unica Campaign, you must create a flowchart with an Extract process. An Extract process is the only way to retrieve optimized contact transactions back from a Unica Optimize session.
Selecting the package that contains the optimized contacts
Retrieve the results from only a single package at a time using the Extract process.

User Guide
Unica Optimize provides documentation and help for users, administrators, and developers.
- About Unica Optimize
  Unica Optimize is a web-based extension of Unica Campaign that allows you to determine the optimal contact strategy for each customer. You can optimize over time, looking across the proposed offers and channels across multiple marketing campaigns.
- Getting started with Unica Optimize
  Unica Optimize can optimize your marketing campaign and improve response from customers, but only if you know what you want to optimize. You need a plan, the data to support the plan, and an implementation method.
- Unica Optimize sessions
  A Unica Optimize session is a combination of rules and scores that apply to a set of proposed contacts.
- Optimization rules
  Unica Optimize uses the rules and scores you define in your Unica Optimize session to mathematically determine the best combination of final contacts you use across your marketing campaigns.
- Setting up scores
  You use scores in Unica Optimize to rank possible offers for each customer using a patent-pending optimization algorithm. The higher the score you assign to a contact, the more desirable you are making that contact. Unica Optimize maximizes the sum of scores in the OCT.
- Generate a list of proposed contacts
  The optimization process involves generating a list of proposed contacts in Unica Campaign and sending these contacts to Unica Optimize to produce optimized contacts.
- Use optimized contacts in marketing campaigns
  After you optimize the proposed contacts, you must retrieve the optimized contacts from Unica Optimize to send marketing communications to these contacts.
  - Select optimized contacts
    To bring the optimized contacts into Unica Campaign, you must create a flowchart with an Extract process. An Extract process is the only way to retrieve optimized contact transactions back from a Unica Optimize session.
    - Selecting the package that contains the optimized contacts
      Retrieve the results from only a single package at a time using the Extract process.
    - Retrieving optimized contacts by a PCT or OCT field
      You can also use the Extract process to filter records by using the Select records with option.
  - Link the optimized contacts to a contact process
    To send out marketing communications to your final contact list, you must add a contact process to your flowchart. Connect the Extract process to a contact process such as Mail List, Call List, or eMessage.
  - Running the post-optimization flowchart
    After you configure the Extract and contact processes, run the flowchart to generate the final contact list for your campaign. You can optionally log to contact history.
  - (Optional) Define a trigger to start the post-optimization flowchart
    You can define a trigger to automatically run the post-optimization flowchart after the Unica Optimize session completes running.
  - Handling multiple packages
    If your post-optimization flowchart retrieves optimized contacts from more than one package, you must separate each package into distinct contact processes.
  - Sampling for hold-out control groups
    To determine the effectiveness of your offer, you can create a hold-out control group for cells assigned that offer. Hold-out control groups are non-contact groups that would receive the offer, but you chose to deliberately withhold from the target cell. You can then compare the "lift" or difference in response from the target cell that received an offer.
  - Assign final cell codes
    You must assign cell codes in either your pre-optimization or post-optimization flowchart.
- Viewing Reports
  For each production run or test run, Unica Optimize generates a number of reports. These reports help you understand what happened during the optimization process by providing analyses pre- and post-optimization.
- Administering Unica Optimize
  There are many aspects of Unica Optimize you can configure to improve performance.
- Unica Optimize configuration properties
  This section describes the Unica Optimize configuration properties that are found on the Configuration page.

Selecting the package that contains the optimized contacts

Retrieve the results from only a single package at a time using the Extract process.

About this task

A single package is all offers that are sent on the same channel at the same time to recipients. You can select more than one package at a time in a single Extract process only if you are certain that the audience IDs targeted within each package are mutually exclusive. That is, each audience ID is treated only in one package or the other, but not both. Otherwise, segmenting by audience ID results in sending duplicate offers to those individuals belonging to multiple packages. If you select more than one package from one Extract process, the Unica Optimize template you are using must include a field for the Optimize process or package. Then, you can include a Segment process in the flowchart to separate each package into its own contact process. It might be easier to use multiple Extract processes, each one extracting optimized transactions for a particular package.

Procedure

Create a batch flowchart in Unica Campaign.
For more information about creating a flowchart in a campaign, see the Unica Campaign User's Guide.
Add an Extract process to the flowchart.
Double-click the Extract process.
The Source tab displays.
From the list in the Input field, select Optimized lists.

The Select Optimize session window displays.
Expand the All sessions list, and select the Unica Optimize session from which you want to select optimized contacts.

The Select Optimize session window populates with information about the Unica Optimize session you selected. The Select results by participants section lists the various campaigns that participated in this Unica Optimize session. Each row represents a specific Optimize process or package, and the flowcharts to which they belong.

Note: You can select the last Unica Optimize session that was used by reselecting it from the drop-down menu.
From the Select results by participants section, select the package from which you want to retrieve optimized contacts.
Click OK.
The Select Optimize session window closes.
On the Extract tab, select at least the audience ID field and any other fields that are required for the contact process.

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