Product Manager John Bates told the audience at the marketing Summit in Utah in March 2014 that Classifications is the most used feature in Adobe Analytics. I am not surprised. One reason is that Classifications allow you to aggregate data. Aggregation of data can make all the difference between a report that is unreadable and … Continue reading SAINT Classifications – the Most Used Feature
Category: Integration
Posts dealing with integrating Analytics data with other systems; getting data into or out of Analytics programmatically.
With DTM you don’t need Data Elements
Slight deviation this week, but we're still on the path to glory a setup of Adobe Analytics and Dynamic Tag Manager (DTM) that is as close to perfection as possible. The deviation today has to do with a question I was asked about a month ago: how can I track an attribute of a clicked … Continue reading With DTM you don’t need Data Elements
With DTM you don’t need Plugins! – Part 2
Let's continue on the journey and replace one more plugins with DTM goodness. I even get to introduce an almost hidden feature! getVisitNum I was slightly disappointed last time because I couldn't find an easy way of replacing getVisitNum. This plugin keeps track of how often someone comes to the site. Very useful for segmentation purposes. … Continue reading With DTM you don’t need Plugins! – Part 2
With DTM you don’t need Plugins! – Part 1
Today's article is a bit of an experiment. I have set myself a goal, and I'll try to reach that goal and document it. The goal: getting rid of plugins in the s_code.js file. Why would I do that? Couple of reasons: Plugins in the s_code.js file make it more difficult to move to DTM. … Continue reading With DTM you don’t need Plugins! – Part 1
Data Elements vs Data Layer
Have you used a Tag Management system yet? And a Data Layer? Both are good ideas in our business, for a variety of reasons. The one I think is most relevant in this context here is that defining a Data Layer makes a lot of requirements, possibilities, assumptions and limitations explicit. I think in a … Continue reading Data Elements vs Data Layer
More APIs (Administration)
It's yet another "5 Tuesdays" month. Since I have ridden mobile to death by now, I thought I'd give you a very short post around my other favourite subject: APIs. Enterprise API Starting off, I'd like to point you to the Enterprise API Overview documentation on the Developer Connection. It has a nice graphic that … Continue reading More APIs (Administration)
SAINT API and API Explorer
Do you remember SAINT Classifications at all? When I wrote that article over a year ago, they were useful but slightly cumbersome. Manual upload of meta data was the norm. Only a few customers had opted for "SAINT Bernard". In the meantime, product management and engineering released two features: the Classifications Rule Builder and the … Continue reading SAINT API and API Explorer
TDD for Analytics, please
Let me throw out an idea here. Given that you are a developer, I hope you can a) appreciate the idea and b) help me develop it into something that works. The idea is to use test-driven development for Analytics or maybe for digital marketing tagging in general. Motivation I recently attended a conference in … Continue reading TDD for Analytics, please
Visitor ID Service Revisited
(Ah, the title... see what I did there?) Just two days after my article about the Visitor ID Service, my colleagues in Engineering and Product Management released a new version of Reports & Analytics and made a couple of nice changes to the Visitor ID Service. So, essentially, forget everything I said last time. Maybe not … Continue reading Visitor ID Service Revisited
API Best Practices
Summit is over, *phew*. I love Summit in London! It is a great occasion to meet all those people I speak with throughout the year. ... For the past couple of years, I have been involved in the preparation of the analytics track at Summit, both as a speaker as well as the "guy responsible … Continue reading API Best Practices
Web Analytics for Developers 