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Unica Interact provides documentation and help for users, administrators, and developers.
Configure gateways
Use triggered message gateways to send offer information from outbound channels.
Using the Unica Interact Email (Transact) Outbound Gateway for IBM Marketing Cloud
You can use this integration with Silverpop, Unica Interact and Unica Interact Email (Transact) Outbound Gateway for IBM Marketing Cloud to send triggered email offers to your customers.
Configuring the transactional mailing with the Unica Interact Email (Transact) Outbound Gateway for IBM Marketing Cloud
You must configure your transactional mailing to send your email offer.

Administrator Guide
Unica Interact provides documentation and help for users, administrators, and developers.
- Administering Interact
  When you administer Unica Interact you configure and maintain users and roles, data sources, and optional product features. You also monitor and maintain the design and runtime environments. Product-specific application programming interfaces (APIs) are available for you to use.
- Security Management
  Access to the Unica Interact runtime User Interface requires authentication. Only the Login IDs defined in Unica Platform and having Unica Interact admin role can access the pages.
- Configuring users
  Unica Interact requires you to configure two sets of users, runtime environment users and design environment users.
- Managing Unica Interact data sources
  Unica Interact requires several data sources to function properly. Some data sources contain the information Unica Interact requires to function, other data sources contain your data.
- Offer serving
  You can configure Unica Interact in many ways to enhance how it selects offers to present. The following sections describe these optional features in detail.
- Understanding the Interact API
  Unica Interact serves offers dynamically to a wide variety of touchpoints. For example, you can configure the runtime environment and your touchpoint to send messages to your call center employees informing them of the best up sell or cross sell prospects for a customer who has called with a specific type of service inquiry. You can also configure the runtime environment and your touchpoint to provide tailored offers to a customer (visitor) who has entered a particular area of your Web site.
- Managing the Unica Interact API
  Whenever you use the startSession method, you create a Unica Interact runtime session on the runtime server. You can use configuration properties to manage the sessions on a runtime server.
- Classes and methods for the Unica Interact API
  The following sections list requirements and other details you should know before you work with the Unica Interact API.
- Classes and methods for the Interact JavaScript API
  The following sections list requirements and other details you should know before you work with the Unica Interact JavaScript API.
- About the ExternalCallout API
  Unica Interact offers an extensible macro, EXTERNALCALLOUT, for use with your interactive flowcharts. This macro enables you to perform custom logic to communicate with external systems during flowchart runs. For example, if you want to calculate the credit score of a customer during a flowchart run, you can create a Java™ class (a callout) to do so and then use the EXTERNALCALLOUT macro in a Select process in your interactive flowchart to get the credit score from your callout.
- Unica Interact utilities
  This section describes the administrative utilities available with Unica Interact.
- About the Learning API
  Unica Interact offers a learning module which uses a naive-bayesian algorithm to monitor visitor actions and propose optimal offers (in terms of acceptance). You can implement the same Java™ interface with your own algorithms using the Learning API to create your own learning module.
- Interact WSDL
  The Unica Interact installation includes two WDSL (Web Services Description Language) XML files that describe the available web services and how to access them. You can view these files in your Unica Interact home directory, and an example is shown here.
- Interact runtime environment configuration properties
  This section describes all the configuration properties for the Unica Interact runtime environment.
- Unica Interact Simulator
  This section describes all the configuration properties for the Unica Interact simulator.
- Interact design environment configuration properties
  This section describes all the configuration properties for Unica Interact design environment.
- Real-time offer personalization on the client side
  There may be situations where you want to provide real-time offer personalization without implementing low-level Java™ code or SOAP calls to the Unica Interact server. For example, when a visitor initially loads a web page where Javascript content is your only extended programming available, or when a visitor opens an email message where only HTML content is possible. Unica Interact provides several connectors that provide real-time offer management in situations where you have control only over the web content that is loaded on the client side, or where you want to simplify your interface to Unica Interact.
- JVM parameters
- Unica Interact and Digital Recommendations integration
  Unica Interact can integrate with IBM Digital Recommendations to provide Unica Interact-driven product recommendations. Both products can provide product recommendations for offers, but using different methods. Digital Recommendations uses a visitor's web behavior (collaborative filter) to build correlations between visitors and recommended offers. Unica Interact is based on customer's past behavior, attributes, history, and less on view-level offers, learning which offers best match a customer's behavior profile (based on demographics and other information about the customer). Offer acceptance rates help to build a predictive model through self-learning. Using the best of both products, Unica Interact can use a personal profile to define offers that will pass a category ID to Digital Recommendations and retrieve recommended products based on popularity (the "wisdom of the crowds") for display to the visitor as part of the selected offers. This can provide better recommendations for customers that will result in more click-throughs and better outcomes than either product acting alone.
- Interact and DDX integration
  With Digital Data Exchange, your website can link to Unica Interact to provide a powerful omni-channel execution engine that delivers the best offers to the optimum channels and evolves (learns) from the offer feedback to continuously increase marketing effectiveness.
- Unica Interact and Unica Journey integration
- Unica Interact and Unica Deliver integration
- Configure gateways
  Use triggered message gateways to send offer information from outbound channels.
  - Using the Unica Interact Inbound Gateway for IBM Universal Behavior Exchange
    To use the Unica Interact Inbound Gateway for IBM Universal Behavior Exchange, you must create an endpoint and event in UBX system, configure Interact, and configure a UBX subscriber endpoint.
  - Using the Unica Interact Outbound Gateway for IBM Universal Behavior Exchange
    To use the Unica Interact Outbound Gateway for IBM Universal Behavior Exchange, you must configure Unica Interact, UBX, and the gateway.
  - Using Unica Interact Outbound Gateway for IBM Mobile Push Notification
    To use this mobile push outbound or publisher gateway, you must configure Unica Interact, IBM Marketing Cloud, and the gateway.
  - Using the Unica Interact Email (Transact) Outbound Gateway for IBM Marketing Cloud
    You can use this integration with Silverpop, Unica Interact and Unica Interact Email (Transact) Outbound Gateway for IBM Marketing Cloud to send triggered email offers to your customers.
    - Adding a dispatcher for the gateway integration
      The dispatcher adds your offer into a queue for the Unica Interact Email (Transact) Outbound Gateway for IBM Marketing Cloud so that your offer email can be sent.
    - Configuring the OMO-conf_outbound_common_httpConnectionConfig parameter
    - Configuring the OMO-conf_outbound_silverpop_silverpopConfig parameter
    - Configuring the OMO-conf_outbound_silverpop_silverpop ContentMapping parameter
      You must configure the OMO-conf_outbound_silverpop_silverpopContentMapping parameter for your gateway.
    - Configuring the deliveryTimeoutMillis parameter
      To increase the Unica Interact server timeout to connect with Marketing Cloud server, set the deliveryTimeoutMills parameter.
    - Add a channel handler for the Unica Interact Email (Transact) Outbound Gateway for IBM Marketing Cloud
      Add a channel handler in the Unica Interact runtime environment.
    - Adding an outbound channel for the Unica Interact Email (Transact) Outbound Gateway for IBM Marketing Cloud
      Add an outbound channel in the Unica Interact design environment.
    - Configuring the transactional mailing with the Unica Interact Email (Transact) Outbound Gateway for IBM Marketing Cloud
      You must configure your transactional mailing to send your email offer.
    - Contact Central integration configurations

Configuring the transactional mailing with the Unica Interact Email (Transact) Outbound Gateway for IBM Marketing Cloud

You must configure your transactional mailing to send your email offer.

Procedure

In the Marketing Cloud (Transact), click Data > Create Database. Then click Create to create a profile table. You can also import the profile table where you added the email column.
Click Automation > Transactional messages > Create Group. Select Transact for the Event Trigger. You also need to select the datasource you previously created. Click Save & Activate.

The offer that is sent through The Marketing Cloud should have the same attribute you set for the campaignId in the silverpopContentMapping.properties file. The value for this offer attribute is the campaignId that is generated for the automated message group.
Click Content > Create Mailings and select the content source from the previous step. Enter the mailing body. Click Automate. Select Assign Mailing to Existing Group of Automated Messages. Click Submit & Activate.

The mailing subject line and body can be personalized using offer attributes and profile attributes. Use the %%Attribute_Name%% syntax to define attributes.
The Marketing Cloud server only accepts outbound gateways submissions from IP addresses set up in advance. To add an IP address, navigate to Settings > Org Admin > Security Settings > Access Restrictions.
If you use the WebSphere Application Server, you need to import the Marketing Cloud SSL certificate. This is not required for WebLogic users.
1. In the WebSphere Application Server console, navigate to SSL certificate and key managemen > Key stores and certificate > NodeDefaultTrustStore > Signer certificates > Retrieve from port.
2. Set the host and port.
3. Restart the WebSphere Application Server.

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