Get started for administrators, analysts, end users, and developers
There are 4 types of Adobe Analytics users in a typical organization:
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Administrators: Implement and configure Adobe Analytics.
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Analysts: Set up projects and create analyses using Analysis Workspace
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End users: Gain actionable insights about their customers, either by creating their own analyses or working with analysts to create them
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Developers: Use the Adobe Analytics 2.0 APIs to directly call Adobe’s servers to perform almost any action that can be performed in the user interface, such as creating reports to explore, getting insights, or answering important questions about data.
The information below outlines how each of these users can get started with Adobe Analytics.
Get started for administrators
Analytics administrators are responsible for choosing the implementation method most appropriate for their organization.
After Adobe Analytics is implemented, administrators need to perform various configuration tasks to ensure that analysts and end users are getting the full value from Adobe Analytics. Administrators should also regularly monitor their Analytics environment to ensure the system is running efficiently.
Determine the types of data that should be gathered
Adobe Analytics lets you gather data from multiple channels types and bring it together to deliver meaningful, real-time customer insights.
Following are some of the supported channels where data can be gathered:
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Mobile phones
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The Internet of Things
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TV
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Voice assistants
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Connected cars
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And more (new supported channels are added regularly)
The implementation method you choose determines the type of data that can be gathered.
Implement Adobe Analytics
Various implementation methods are available when implementing Adobe Analytics on your website or mobile app.
For information about each available method, see Implement Adobe Analytics.
- Web SDK extension (recommended)
- Web SDK
- Analytics extension
- Legacy JavaScript
- Mobile SDK extension (recommended)
- Analytics extension
Configure Adobe Analytics
Analytics administrators should complete the following tasks before making Adobe Analytics available to users in the organization:
A report suite is a silo of data that Adobe Analytics uses to generate reports.
Administrators can also set up virtual report suites to further segment data.
Use the Data Dictionary and the management areas for each component type to define which components are available in your Analytics implementation, as well as which are approved for your organization.
This should be an ongoing activity to ensure that components are being used effectively in your organization.
You can surface information from other applications in Adobe Analytics.
Following are some common integrations:
Monitor Adobe Analytics
Various features are available to help you monitor your Adobe Analytics environment.
Analytics administrators should be aware of the following features available to help monitor important aspects of your Analytics environment:
Get started for Analysts
While anyone in an organization can use Adobe Analytics to gain actionable insights about customer behavior across websites and apps, Adobe Analytics is designed with data analysts in mind.
Following are key tasks and features that analysts should be familiar with in order to leverage the full power of Adobe Analytics and Analysis Workspace.
Analysis Workspace is a flexible browser tool that allows you to quickly build analyses and share insights. Using the drag-and-drop interface, you can craft your analysis, add visualizations to bring data to life, curate a dataset, share and schedule projects with anyone in your organization.
Data analysts are often responsible for creating projects in Analysis Workspace for users within their organization.
After projects are created, analysts share those projects with the end users(non-analysts) in their organizations who requested the data and help them understand how to interpret it.
Analysts can customize how dimension items get credit for success events by employing various attribution models and lookback windows in Analysis Workspace.
Linear attribution models gives equal credit to every touch point leading up to a conversion, while First Touch gives full credit to the first touch point. Many other attribution models are available, including the Algorithmic model, which uses statistical techniques to dynamically determine the optimal allocation of credit.
Activity Map is an Adobe Analytics application that is designed to rank link activity using visual overlays and provide a dashboard of real-time analytics to monitor audience engagement of your web pages.
Activity Map lets you set up different views to visually identify the acceleration of customer activity, quantify marketing initiatives, and act on audience needs and behaviors.
Get started for end users
End users who are not professional analysts can either work with analysts in their organization to leverage the full power of Adobe Analytics and Analysis Workspace, or they can learn the basics of Analysis Workspace in order to start gaining actionable insights about their customers.
Work with analysts
Typically, users in an organization who are interested in learning more about customer behavior across their various sites are not professional analysts.
Ideally, these users should work with analysts within an organization to:
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Define requirements for the analyses by explaining to the analyst what they hope to learn about customers.
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Review the analyses to ensure they meet the objectives.
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Discuss the data gained from the analyses.
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Modify the analyses as needed over time.
Create analyses in Analysis Workspace
You don’t have to be a data analyst to gain actionable insights from Adobe Analytics.
Some users might find it helpful to work with a data analyst to set up a project in Analysis Workspace and explain how to interpret the data, as described in Work with analysts; other users might be comfortable building the project and interpreting the data themselves.
Analysis Workspace allows you to quickly build analyses to gather insights and then share those insights with others. Using the drag-and-drop browser interface, you can craft your analysis, add visualizations to bring data to life, curate a dataset, and share and schedule projects with anyone you choose.
For information about how to create analyses in Analysis Workspace, see Analysis Workspace overview.
Get started for developers
Analytics APIs allow you to directly call Adobe’s servers to perform almost any action that you can perform in the user interface.
You can create reports to explore, get insights, or answer important questions about your data. You can also manage components of Adobe Analytics, such as the creation of segments or calculated metrics.