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Federated Audience Composition continuously delivers new features, enhancements to existing features, and bug fixes. All changes are consolidated in these release notes. Federated Audience Composition is built natively on ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓÆµ Experience Platform and inherits from its latest innovations and improvements. Learn more about these changes in ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓÆµ Experience Platform Release Notes.
July '25 release fac-25-7
New capabilities fac-25-07-feature
The Oracle connector is now available for use with Federated Audience Composition.
You can use the Oracle connector for audience creation and audience enrichment use cases.
For more information about the Oracle connection, please read the connections overview.
You can now subscribe to alerts to learn about your composition's successful and failed runs
For more information about subscribing to notifications for your composition's runs, please read the start and monitor your composition guide.
Improvements fac-25-07-improvements
This release comes with the following improvement:
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Increased server character length
When configuring your federated databases, you can now use up to 255 characters, rather than the previous 80 characters.
June '25 release fac-25-6
Improvements fac-25-06-improvements
This release comes with the following improvements:
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General Availability for ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓÆµ Healthcare Shield Customers
Federated Audience Composition will be available to ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓÆµ Healthcare Shield customers for audience creation, enrichment and profile enrichment use cases by the end of June.
More information about privacy and security in Federated Audience Composition can be found in the Data governance, privacy, and security guide.
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Object-level access control
Federated Audience Composition now supports object-level access control to apply access labels to your specified compositions.
More information about using object-level access labels can be found in the compositions guide.
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Default roles
You can now use one of the default roles to manage user permissions for Federated Audience Composition access.
More information about the default roles can be found in the access Federated Audience Composition guide.
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Incremental Updates in profile enrichment use cases
The Save profiles activity now supports incremental updates. With incremental updates, you can query and update incremental data while enriching profiles with data from external data warehouses.
More information on using the save profiles activity can be found in the save profile activity guide.
May '25 release fac-25-5
New capabilities fac-25-05-feature
Data model with Canvas view is now available for all customers!
The Canvas view for the Data Models section improves the experience by enabling the visualization of data models and their links in a canvas layout, alongside the existing tabular view.
For more information about canvas view, please read the data models overview.
Improvements fac-25-5-improvements
This release comes with the following improvements.
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Role Based Access Control
Starting with the May release, Federated Audience Composition supports new granular permissions for access control. Users can assign these permissions to user roles for more precise access to Federated Audience Composition.
To learn more about the new permissions, please read the Federated Audience Composition access guide.
April '25 release fac-25-4
New capabilities fac-25-04-feature
The Canvas view for the Data Models section improves the experience by enabling the visualization of data models and their links in a canvas layout, alongside the existing tabular view.
Data model with Canvas view is currently available as a beta to select users only.
For more information, refer to the detailed documentation.
AI Assistant is a user interface feature designed to help you navigate and understand ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓÆµ concepts and get operational insights for your specific environment. It is available in several products across ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓÆµ Experience Cloud, including Federated Audience Composition.
For more information, refer to the detailed documentation.
Federated Audience Composition now supports the profile enrichment use case, allowing customers to enhance existing Experience Platform profiles with data from their external data warehouses.
For more information, refer to the detailed documentation.
Improvements fac-25-4-improvements
This release comes with the improvements below.
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Data Model Name
From the Audiences menu, the Federated compositions tab now displays the Data Model name instead of the ID, improving clarity and overall usability.
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Audience
The Audience menu now displays the name or label of the selected data model when a user selects a data model with no associated audiences.
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Large audiences export
Federated Audience Composition now supports the export of large audiences, with file sizes greater than 1 GB.
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Save audience activity
A note has been added to the Save Audience activity, reminding users to collaborate with a data administrator to apply governance labels to new schemas and datasets created during audience creation and enrichment.
Learn more about data usage labels
Compatibility fac-25-4-compat
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Amazon Redshift secure connection
With this new release, Federated Audience Composition supports secure private link connections to Amazon Redshift databases. Learn more
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Google BigQuery
With this new release, Federated Audience Composition supports secure VPN connections to Google BigQuery Databases. Learn more
March '25 release fac-25-3
Improvements fac-25-3-improvements
This release comes with the improvements below.
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Federated Audience Composition permissions
Starting March release, Federated Audience Composition will start enforcing the access of Federated data management and Federated Compositions interfaces to user who have been granted the Manage Federated Data permission.
We recommend users to contact the administrators to have this permission added to their role in order to continue accessing the Federated Audience Composition user interface.
To learn how to assign this permission, refer to the detailed documentation.
Compatibility fac-25-3-compat
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Databricks connection
With this new release, Federated Audience Composition now supports private link connectivity for Databricks database connections.
This includes secure connections to Databricks databases hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) via private link and Databricks databases hosted on Microsoft Azure via VPN. Learn more -
Support for B2B CDP Customers
Federated Audience Composition is now available to Business-to-Business (B2B) Customer Data Platform (CDP) customers for people-based audience use cases.
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Snowflake secure connection
With this new release, Federated Audience Composition supports secure private link connections to Snowflake databases hosted on Microsoft Azure. Learn more
February '25 release fac-25-2
This release comes with the changes listed below.
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Microsoft Fabric support
You can now establish connections to Microsoft Fabric databases through Federated Audience Composition. Learn more
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Amazon Redshift Spectrum support
Amazon Redshift Spectrum is now supported for Amazon Redshift Database connections. Learn more
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Enhanced Schema Creation Experience
The process of creating schemas has been improved through an updated user interface, designed to be more intuitive and easier to navigate. These enhancements offer data practitioners a smoother and more efficient way to develop data models. Learn more
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Audience Enrichment Support for Databricks
You can now use Databricks in the Read Audience flow, enabling activity for Databricks databases and allowing it to be set up as a new destination. Learn more
November '24 release fac-24-11
Improvements fac-24-11-improvements
This release comes with the improvement below.
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IP address allow list
When adding a federated database in the ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓÆµ Experience Platform user interface, you can now directly view the IP addresses associated with your Federated Audience Composition instances. This enables you to easily copy and authorize these IPs to connect to your database for improved security and flexibility. Learn more
October '24 release fac-24-10
Compatibility fac-24-10-compat
With this new release, Federated Audience Composition is now compatible with the systems listed below.
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Databricks support
You can now establish connections to Databricks databases through Federated Audience Composition. Learn more
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Support for secure access to Snowflake through AWS PrivateLink
Secure access to your external Snowflake data warehouse through private link is now supported. Note that your Snowflake account must be hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and located in the same region as your Federated Audience Composition environment. Please contact your ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓÆµ representative for assistance in setting up secure access to your Snowflake account. Learn more
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Amazon Redshift Serverless support
With this new release, Federated Audience Composition supports .
Improvements fac-24-10-improvements
This release comes with the improvements listed below.
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Refresh existing schemas
When a column is created, modified or deleted in a federated database, you can now detect and apply the changes by clicking on the Refresh schema button in the corresponding schema. Learn more
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Associate a data model with a new composition
When creating a composition, you can now select the data model to associate to it. With this new option, the configuration of your activities is easier as only tables of the associated data model are available. Learn more
July '24 release - Federated Audience Composition (LA) fac-la
Federated Audience Composition equips businesses with flexible and expanded access to enterprise data warehouses to compose audiences using critical enterprise datasets and power brand-initiated and in-the-moment experiences. With this new approach, as an ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓÆµ Real-Time Customer Data Platform and/or ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓÆµ Journey Optimizer user, you can federate audience data directly from your existing data warehouse to enrich ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓÆµ Experience Platform audiences in one system.
Federated Audience Composition addresses growing market demands for enterprises who need the flexibility to compose audiences with warehouse datasets. This allows businesses to reduce data movement while making critical audience data available to marketing teams to meet use case requirements and power personalized experiences.
Learn more about Federated Audience Composition capabilities on this page and in the Frequently Asked Questions.
Detailed information on the prerequisites to access Federated Audience Compositions and the current guardrails, refer to the this page.