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[Product request] Add support for date values in Audience ManagerNew

Good afternoon, Was discussing a current limitation of Adobe Audience Manager with our Adobe consultant, and she suggested raising a feature request with you (to then pass on to the product / engineering teams). Context:NOW TV is a digital TV streaming service  (part of the Comcast family).      Our users can pick and choose from a variety of content passes:   CINEMA / ENTERTAINMENT / REALITY TV / KIDS / SPORTS – and are not tied to any contract. They can select monthly subscriptions and cancel them whenever they like.To make data processing and compute as efficient as possible, we store every user action within our service into our data lake as an event (with corresponding event timestamp) Challenge:      Since we operate as a subscription business, a lot of things we do require us to use dates, e.g to know when a subscription expires, to calculate our customer lifetime value, tenure, etc.However, unlike Adobe Campaign, Audience Manager does not understand the concept of a date (or a timestamp). The impact for us is that we then have to create very complex logics to make the data work specifically for Audience Manager e.g  instead of using the date a pass expires, every single day we have to calculate the number of days until a pass expires.We have more than 11.5 Millions of accounts in the UK alone, and this example is only one attribute out of dozens of customer attributes that we use that do require such date calculations.    (We also operate across 6 EU countries)Adding support for date values would be extremely beneficial for us and speed up our release cycles. Ask:    Could we add support for date values in Audience Manager as a roadmap candidate?  (would benefit all subscription businesses, independent of vertical) Cheers,   Robin

Improve MS Dynamics Enable-Disable Sync Status BehaviorNew

Currently, it is far too easy to inadvertently enable or disable your MS Dynamics CRM sync. Yes, I speak from experience. And you will find that, having done so, it is highly likely that you will only discover the error after other business processes and stakeholders have been negatively affected. Not only is the control for this critical core function an unreasonably small icon on the tool bar tab, but clicking this control does not result in any confirmation/caution message indicating that the enabling or disabling of a vital system integration is in question. There is a very brief message that appears in the upper right hand corner that tells you that you have either turned it on or off but this could be seen as a very weak solution. Messages like that can easily be interpreted as confirming what you think you have done. I meant to re-enable my sync. I see that little message, it says the sync has been re-enabled. Close that message. We should see a clearer message about what we are about to do. In fact, this standard confirmation behavior exists for most other assets and elements within Marketo, including such trivial actions as deleting empty folders, or programs with no members/activity/assets, and smart lists with no filters and no usage. This situation is compounded by the fact that there is no Admin accessible data trail on this functionality or these events. There is no indication when the sync was established. When it was interrupted. When it was re-established, and by whom. There is no event entry created on the Admin Audit Trail when DCRM syncs are enabled or disabled. The aforementioned "small icon" control for this critical integration displays what could be classified as confusing language: Disable Sync - "Is the CRM sync disabled? Do I click the icon to disable it? Is it actually enabled? If so, why doesn't it say that?" Enable Sync -  "That means it's 'Enabled', right?"I feel for any Marketo admin with dyslexia. Sync Disabled OR Disable Sync. Which is it?  Add to this, that the little icon itself does not change at all regardless of the sync being Disable (meaning it is actually Enabled) or Enable (meaning it is actually... you know... or is it the other way around?). Why not report on connection "up" time, "down" time? Why not enable email notifications subscriptions for Sync Enable/Disable events? This area of Marketo is long overdue for a major overhaul. Not just everything above but the entire native sync with Dynamics. Come on Adobe, you're killing me.