No post today due to move. Will aim to have one up next week.
Analysing Mobile Apps – Debugging
This article is part of a mini-series on Mobile App Tracking discussing Overview, Prerequisites, Coding, Debugging (this one) and Analysis of mobile apps. This one is about what developers hate most: finding out why stuff doesn't work and fixing it. There are quite a lot of moving pieces here, so debugging includes a couple of different … Continue reading Analysing Mobile Apps – Debugging
Analysing Mobile Apps – Tagging
This article is part of a mini-series on Mobile App Tracking discussing Overview, Prerequisites, Coding (this one), Debugging and Analysis of mobile apps. I decided to stop yesterday when I felt it was getting too long. I was also unsure whether the next step was still setup or part of the actual coding. Doesn't really … Continue reading Analysing Mobile Apps – Tagging
Analysing Mobile Apps – Prerequisites
This article is part of a mini-series on Analysing Mobile Apps discussing Overview, Prerequisites (this one), Coding, Debugging, and Analysis of mobile apps. Today I walk you through the setup. You will need to install some things, check that you can log into Adobe Analytics ("the mobile way") and figure out where your tracking will go. … Continue reading Analysing Mobile Apps – Prerequisites
Analysing Mobile Apps – Overview
This month I'd like to present a mini-series about tracking and analysing mobile apps. This mini-series should give you everything you need if your job requires you to analyse your mobile apps. Some parts are relevant for the business (the friendly marketer as well as product management), some are downright for the developer who builds … Continue reading Analysing Mobile Apps – Overview
Poll – Mobile Analytics Mini-Series?
We have yet another 5th Tuesday this month, but instead of posting an article, I'd like to ask a question: Do we need, or should I write a mini-series on implementing mobile? I'd start with the setup of a mobile report suite including how you actually log in. Then I'd explain how to get everything … Continue reading Poll – Mobile Analytics Mini-Series?
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
The Visitor ID Service
What I write about mostly on this blog has to do with analytics, specifically Adobe Analytics, fka SiteCatalyst. But this is just one in the large collection of tools your friendly marketer uses to do her job. Analytics allow her to capture data for analysis and observation. She can also use the data to drive aspects … Continue reading The Visitor ID Service