Overview of the upgrade from SmartTarget 2014 SP1 to Experience Optimization on Content Delivery

If you are upgrading from SmartTarget 2014 SP1, changes to the architecture of both Experience Optimization and Fredhopper mean that the existing SmartTarget Web service needs to be transformed, and a new service needs to be added. In addition, the extension to the Content Deployer also needs to be updated.

Experience Optimization Management service

The existing SmartTarget Web service needs to be replaced with the new Experience Optimization Management service, a microservice that takes care of communication between Content Manager and the Fredhopper Index Server.

Experience Optimization Query Service

The Web site uses this new microservice to communicate with Fredhopper.

Experience Optimization extension to Content Deployer

The extension to the Content Deployer needs to be upgraded. Specifically, it needs to use the new Content Deployer microservice.