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Overview

What is Adobe Analytics?

Adobe acquired Omniture in 2009 and re-branded the platform as SiteCatalyst. It is now part of Adobe Marketing Cloud along with other products such as social marketing, test and targeting, and tag management. SiteCatalyst is one of the leading vendors in…

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Recent Reviews

Adobe Analytics Review

8 out of 10
September 07, 2023
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The main purpose of Adobe Analytics is how better you understand your customer and how better you provide your service to your customer. …
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Adobe Analytics Review

10 out of 10
September 07, 2023
Incentivized
The company uses it to understand the behavior and the performance of our acquisition efforts. In my team, in experimentation, we use it …
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Adobe Analytics Review

9 out of 10
September 06, 2023
Incentivized
I use Adobe Analytics to run all of our weekly performance reporting. We use Adobe Analytics to wire frame data feeds that will then pull …
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Adobe Analytics Review

9 out of 10
September 06, 2023
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I always start very broad. It's always performance-based, so overall visits, shop visits, conversion bookings, and then that goes down …
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Adobe Analytics Review

8 out of 10
September 06, 2023
Incentivized
We have apps, we have websites, we have Adobe tagging on there, and we want to understand what our users are doing from an informational …
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Adobe Analytics Review

8 out of 10
September 06, 2023
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We do use Adobe Analytics to answer how the products are being used. Products meaning software, products on site, and apps and user …
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Awards

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Video Reviews

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User Review: Adobe Analytics Proves Profitable With It's Data Organization Tools
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Adobe Analytics Provides Ease of Integration In Conjunction With Other Adobe Software: User Review
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User Review: Adobe Analytics Is a Robust & Powerful Tool For Large Enterprise Data Pools
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Pricing

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What is Adobe Analytics?

Adobe acquired Omniture in 2009 and re-branded the platform as SiteCatalyst. It is now part of Adobe Marketing Cloud along with other products such as social marketing, test and targeting, and tag management. SiteCatalyst is one of the leading vendors in the web analytics category and is…

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  • No setup fee

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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Heap is a web analytics platform captures every user interaction on web iOS with no extra code. The tool allows you to track events and set up funnels to understand user flow and dropoff. It also provides visualization tools to track trends over time.

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Product Details

What is Adobe Analytics?

Adobe Analytics lets users mix, match, and analyze data throughout the customer journey. It supports web analytics, marketing analytics, attribution, and predictive analytics.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Adobe acquired Omniture in 2009 and re-branded the platform as SiteCatalyst. It is now part of Adobe Marketing Cloud along with other products such as social marketing, test and targeting, and tag management. SiteCatalyst is one of the leading vendors in the web analytics category and is particularly strong in combining web analytics with other digital marketing capabilities like audience management and data management. Adobe Analytics also includes predictive marketing capabilities that help users find trends in customer behavior patterns leading up to conversion. According to the vendor, these insights can help predict which campaigns will be most successful.

Piano Analytics, Coremetrics / IBM Digital Analytics (discontinued), and Parse.ly are common alternatives for Adobe Analytics.

Reviewers rate Device and Browser Reporting highest, with a score of 9.3.

The most common users of Adobe Analytics are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Nicholas Dragon | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
  • Provides highly detailed reports on very specific metrics.
  • Reports are very easy to share and understand.
  • Able to assign customizable measurement perimeters.
  • Identify poor performing web pages.
  • Track success of digital marketing campaigns.
  • Learning how to use SiteCatalyst is quite difficult.
  • Initial implementation of software is challenging.
  • Support is less than helpful in most cases.
Overall, SiteCatalyst is an amazing program. If you can get through the difficulties of implementation and learning how to effectively use the software, it can do great things for your company. Make sure to negotiate extensive in-person training and person-to-person support into your original terms.
  • We are able to track traffic coming into our websites based on traditional marketing devices such as billboards. This offers us the ability to calculate the ROI of a web URL, which has proven to be valuable.
Primarily, we compared SiteCatalyst with Google Analytics. We found that when using Google Analytics, Google retains ownership of the information gathered and generated by our website. Not owning our data made our organization uncomfortable, which is one of the main reasons we went with Adobe.
We are satisfied with the product performance and are not seeking alternative solutions. Once you learn how to use this software effectively, it becomes very valuable. You just have to struggle through the learning curve.
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They represent marketing, public relations, IS&T, human resources, and our not-for-profit foundation offices.
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They belong to our eBusiness team and are charged with managing our public facing websites.
  • Monitor and manage traffic on our public facing websites.
  • Track digital campaign performance.
  • Identify performance issues with individual web pages.
We implemented SiteCatalyst at Intermountain before I joined the organization and I am unaware of which analytics solution was in place prior to my hiring date.
  • Vendor implemented
  • Implemented in-house
Implementation was handled in-house with the assistance of Adobe.
Because we were not familiar with SiteCatalyst, we felt like implementation was poor. There were several specific details we were not aware of, which required additional support later on to correct. Overall, implementation of SiteCatalyst on a large scale is quite difficult for new users.
  • In-person training
  • Self-taught
It was a one-day training several years ago that cost the organization several thousand dollars. There were only about 10 people in the training class. Adobe tried to cram so much information into that one-day class that none of our users felt like they really learned anything helpful from the experience.
Follow-up training is too expensive.
If you don't have someone to help you learn this software, I would absolutely not recommend buying it. Without training, SiteCatalyst is entirely ineffective.
Customer service is always good, however, support assumes you are an expert user and struggles to communicate complex problems so a non-IT person can understand.
Again, learning how to use the system is difficult. It is nearly unusable if you haven't received training, and training from Adobe is EXTREMELY expensive.
I have never experienced downtime with this product.
I have never experienced any sort of problem with this products speed or throughput.
  • Not to my knowledge
I don't know
I don't have information about our terms.
Jonathon Frampton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Organizes your data: clickstream data by default is not "clean" so one area where SiteCatalyst excels is the presentation of this data in multiple clean ways.
  • Data access: different organizations like to access and work with data in different ways, SC allows you to access (think Data Warehouse, Discover, API, Feeds), manipulate (think Classifications, Processing Rules) and report on (Dashboards, Report Builder, Scheduled reporting) your data as you see fit.
  • Can expose TOO much data to business users.
  • The sheer amount of reporting available can lead to false insights by users that are not product experts.
  • Requires expert level experience for any implementations.
As Adobe continues to bolster this suite, the package itself becomes more attractive. With recent additions such as their "dynamic tag manager" they are quickly building a web analytics empire. All that is left is to utilize the tools vs going the Excel route of only utilizing < 10% of the tools.
  • Report automation to reduce and enhance analyst resources.
  • Actionable insights gathered through the tool which are leveraged for overall ROI gain.
We are always evaluating our product choices so we recently looked at Google Analytics Premium (and Universal), IBM Coremetrics, Piwik and some home-grown variations. We stayed the course with Adobe SC to truly take advantage of the current functions that came with the upgrade. In particular to expand the use of offline data integrations (SAINT, Data Sources) and build out more on-demand reporting through the API.
Although the tool is extensive, the price point and level of knowledge required to implement and use it will always lead me to examine other opportunities.
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Adobe SiteCatalyst is used across the organization from Merchandising, Marketing and Planning to Fulfillment and the C-Suite.
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Currently just me, but in the very near future we are looking to build a more robust analytics group that will be responsible for the software and others like it.
  • eCommerce site level and global KPI reporting and baselines for conversion and funnel metrics.
  • Hourly and On-Demand reporting of a wide range of metrics across multiple departments and functions.
  • IT & Operations Support issue research and resolution tool.
  • eCommerce Ad-hoc Analysis.
Adobe SiteCatalyst was the first clickstream analytics implemented.
  • Professional services company
The initial implementation was done prior to my employment.
One of the benefits and obstacles to successfully using Adobe Analytics is a great / more accurate implementation, make sure your analytics group is intimate with the details of the implementation and that the requirements are driven by the business.
  • Online training
  • Self-taught
Videos of the different tools plus the knowledge base articles, but you do have to take the initiative to do them yourself. There are also a few great books on the subject. *Nod to Adam Greco's SiteCatalyst Handbook
With a basic / strong understanding of how the data is collected and what the underlying metrics and dimensions mean a user can become quite adept very quickly within the tool. So, yes.
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Client Care and Account Success Managers are part of the standard pricing model.
Not very many companies get this one right, but I will say that although I may not like their standard technical support, they do make it very available and with the help of a good account representative service issues can be handled well.
The user interface and business facing side is incredibly powerful and useful, the back end can be a pain point for many.
Adobe SiteCatalyst has great actual uptime in the most standard sense, but long lag times in data during critical time periods (i.e. Holidays) I would consider to be an issue with availability.
The speed with which visualizations and data sets are returned within the tool and or data warehouse can be dissapointing.
  • Internal BI
  • Internal OMS
  • Third Parties (Data Extenders)
Some are quite easy with built in integration of data feeds etc, others require custom code.
  • Front end web system.
  • More third parties.
Many do.
Give and take.
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