Data Activation
Partner perspective
Data Activation is where most Occtoo implementations begin—and where partners bring immediate, tangible value.
This phase focuses on connecting Occtoo to the customer’s surrounding data landscape and ensuring product data becomes real-time, geo-scaled, and consumable across all endpoints.
This phase is often IT-led, but successful partners actively guide customers away from purely technical thinking toward long-term product experience enablement.
What partners typically deliver
Partners are responsible for:
- Integrating internal systems (ERP, PLM, CMS, Commerce)
- Connecting external sources (industry databases, marketplaces, syndication)
- Designing and implementing Providers and Formatters
- Onboarding data via Occtoo’s model-agnostic ingestion API
Occtoo supports onboarding virtually any data source while maintaining high performance and flexibility.
Why this matters beyond integration
Position Data Activation as a means to unlock product experiences, not as an integration end goal.
Over-focusing on integration can:
- Lock customers into current-state solutions
- Reduce room for frontend and channel innovation
- Shift focus away from sales and business impact
Strong partners ensure that integration choices enable, rather than limit, future product orchestration.
What comes next
Once data flows reliably, differentiation starts with product intelligence.