Introducing 15 for 15: 15 Posts on SiteCatalyst 15

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Today was an excit­ing day in and around my cubi­cle. Site­Cat­a­lyst 15 has offi­cially been released.

Over the com­ing days and weeks, Site­Cat­a­lyst cus­tomers will work with their Account Man­agers to learn more about this, our most excit­ing and antic­i­pated release ever. As you may have seen at Sum­mit back in March, this ver­sion of Site­Cat­a­lyst includes a revamped plat­form which helps to make pos­si­ble a truly phe­nom­e­nal set of fea­tures. We are con­fi­dent that you’ll be able to do far more with your ana­lyt­ics data in Site­Cat­a­lyst 15 than you’ve ever been able to do before.

Hats off to the numer­ous teams, both at Adobe and else­where, who helped to make this hap­pen. (A rough esti­mate of the num­ber of man-hours that the Site­Cat­a­lyst team con­tributed was in the mul­ti­ple tens of thou­sands.) We pride our­selves on work­ing with you—our customers—to inno­vate, and you have cer­tainly inspired us. Hope­fully, many of you will see the imprint of your own ideas within the prod­uct. As you’ll notice, we imple­mented 30 sub­mis­sions from the Idea Exchange in this release alone.

15 for 15

With this release of Site­Cat­a­lyst 15, we’d like to intro­duce a series of blog posts that will be run­ning here over the com­ing weeks: 15 for 15. We will be doing 15 blog posts, each high­light­ing a fea­ture, a ben­e­fit, or a process improve­ment related to Site­Cat­a­lyst 15.

We’ll dis­cuss things like:

  • Real-time seg­men­ta­tion in Site­Cat­a­lyst 15
  • Suite-level seg­ment inte­gra­tion with Test&Target
  • The Site­Cat­a­lyst 15 upgrade process
  • Improve­ments to Mer­chan­dis­ing eVars

The goal is to help doc­u­ment some of the excit­ing new stuff that we think you’ll love, in a some­what con­ver­sa­tional way that you can eas­ily share with col­leagues. But we also want to go beyond the doc­u­men­ta­tion and share use cases, tips and tricks, and any­thing else that will help you get the most out of your Site­Cat­a­lyst 15 experience.

Of course, we will wel­come com­ments and ques­tions about any of this new func­tion­al­ity. I am also on Twit­ter (@benjamingaines), so feel free to hit me up there as well. Con­tribut­ing authors in this blog series will vary, but each post will be clearly labeled as a part of this “15 for 15″ program.

Please check back shortly, and/or add blogs​.omni​ture​.com to your RSS reader so you can get the inside scoop on Site­Cat­a­lyst 15 and why we’re so excited about it.

So get ready… “15 for 15″ is set to begin.

  • Lucy G.

    Ben, Just read through some of the doc­u­men­ta­tion about the new release and have some con­cerns. The new Vis­its cal­cu­la­tion which will include non-persistent cookie Vis­i­tors will affect our abil­ity to com­pare vis­its lev­els prior to the upgrade, is there a plan to make this cal­cu­la­tion retroac­tive. Also con­cerned with same issue about retroac­tive cal­cu­la­tions for the new method of cal­cu­la­tion Avg Time on Site.

    Oth­er­wise I can’t wait to be able to access the new ver­sion with the seg­men­ta­tion etc.

    • http://blogs.omniture.com/author/bgaines Ben Gaines

      Hi Lucy,

      A few things to keep in mind:
      1.) For imple­men­ta­tions using first-party cook­ies, the increase in the Vis­its met­ric is extremely minimal—something like 0.1–0.5%.
      2.) If you are com­par­ing just the Vis­its met­ric, you can apply a “Vis­its from Non-Persistent Cookie Vis­i­tors” seg­ment to the report you’re view­ing in order to see the same Vis­its cal­cu­la­tion that was used in Site­Cat­a­lyst 14.

      We have con­sid­ered ways to help make this com­par­i­son (pre-upgrade and post-upgrade) eas­ier. We are not plan­ning to make retroac­tive changes to his­tor­i­cal data that was processed in Site­Cat­a­lyst 14, but there are other options that remain on the table.

      I hope this helps!

      Thanks,
      Ben

  • Dan Cross

    Hey Ben,
    It sure would be great if you guys had some sort of land­ing page, or dif­fer­ent mech­a­nism for brows­ing explic­itly through this “15 for 15″ series. Or, maybe one exists that I just can’t find?

    • http://blogs.omniture.com/author/bgaines Ben Gaines

      This is a great idea, Dan. Orig­i­nally, we had plans to do it (on this intro­duc­tory post), but we got dis­tracted. I’ll try to put some­thing together soon.

  • http://www.bluelock.com cloud com­put­ing

    Lucy, thanks for bring­ing that up. As well, kudos to Ben for the prompt reply. I am just about to start the 15 for 15 series, but fig­ured I’d save my ques­tions for those par­tic­u­lar pages(where rel­e­vant). I’ve enjoyed the eVars dis­cus­sions over the past X months, and look for­ward to learn­ing about them in the realm of merchandising.

    30 sub­mis­sions in the first release is really a tes­ta­ment to every­one involved. It shows that com­mu­nity involve­ment can really take a prod­uct to another level.

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    We have con­sid­ered ways to help make this com­par­i­son (pre-upgrade and post-upgrade) eas­ier. We are not plan­ning to make retroac­tive changes to his­tor­i­cal data that was processed in Site­Cat­a­lyst 14, but there are other options that remain on the table.