Factual Engine
Mobile location enrichment
Analyzes location data and how it changes throughout the day to fuel user insights and segmentation
Correlates a device’s location to a unique place or point of interest
Creates targeting rules (Circumstances) based on user location combined with day of week, time of day and specific place attributes
Triggers emails, push notifications, or other actions based on the custom Circumstances rules
How Factual Engine Works
Installing the Engine SDK in your app enables you to gather and analyze information about your users’ location. Engine caches the relevant portion of Factual’s Global Places data on the device to determine where the user is, beyond raw location. Engine needs device location data in order to work and will use whatever location permissions your app has authorized. You can also set custom rules to trigger “actions” like push notifications or emails.
Sharing the data and insight that Factual Engine collects with tools like analytics, marketing automation, and your data warehouse will require research and custom coding. A software engineer will need become familiar with Factual Engine’s API and webhooks. The API enables the data that Factual collects to be forwarded to external tools and webhooks allow you to hook into that data as it occurs and is tracked via Engine’s SDKs. The data that’s collected will need to be collected, re-formatted, and sent to each tool where you want the data.
Get more out of Factual Engine with Segment
The Factual Engine Source is a cloud-based event source. You simply include, configure, and initialize the Engine SDK as you normally would, and then add only a few lines of code to trigger correctly formatted events to Segment in response to your dynamic triggers and actions. This event data then flows seamlessly to your downstream Segment Destinations. Once the Factual Engine Source is enabled, any Segment Destination that can accept server-to-server data can accept data from Factual Engine. The data is also automatically streamed into your next warehouse sync. The data generated from the Factual Engine can also be easily combined with other Source data collected via Segment without any additional development work on your end.
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Integrate Factual Engine with Segment
Segment makes it easy to set up Factual Engine.