Tag: xdb

  • Video Series: A Campaign from A to Z #4: Analytics and custom segments

    Video Series: A Campaign from A to Z #4: Analytics and custom segments

    In this episode, we’ll look at the built-in features that Experience Analytics has to offer and how we can now gain insights thanks to our campaign setup. Additionally we’ll look into custom segments – a feature new to Sitecore 10 allowing to set up custom filters for Experience Analytics reports.

  • DiSA Episode 3: Content Profiling & Identification

    DiSA Episode 3: Content Profiling & Identification

    In this episode of Diving into Sitecore Analytics, we’re going to gain insights into our (currently) anonymous audience. We’ll create segments based on content interest (Content Profiling) and we will look into identifying individual users based on unique identifiers. These two powerful concepts – built in to the Sitecore Experience Platform – provide a huge…

  • DiSA Episode 2: Campaigns & Channels

    DiSA Episode 2: Campaigns & Channels

    In this episode of Diving into Sitecore Analytics, we’re going to use campaigns to feed our acquisition reports with useful data. (and do some neat personalization) By the way, this post from 2014 is still valid! It describes how campaigns are triggered and how to customize triggering.

  • Video series “Diving into Sitecore Analytics” launched

    Video series “Diving into Sitecore Analytics” launched

    I have launched a video series on youtube. The goal is to touch on as many Sitecore Analytics and Experience Platform features as possible without going into too much detail. We’ll start out with out of the box features…but coders don’t worry: there will be code in the later episodes! 🙂 Any kind of feedback…

  • Debugging xConnect with xConnectHelper

    Debugging xConnect with xConnectHelper

    Setting up and testing xConnect can be a challenge – especially in on premise setups. Are all the certificates set up? Are all databases up and connection strings correct? Initiially, tracking, processing and reporting can be somewhat of a black box because to see it working correctly i.E. to test experience profile functionality, you’ll have…

  • Santa’s little xDB Helper

    Sorry for the xmas pun but hey, it’s December. Back to topic. Debugging xDB issues on a remote environment can be very difficult. Is the MongoDB connection OK? Is tracking configured correctly? Are contacts being created and identified? Is my data pushed to the correct places, when my session ends? Why is GeoIP detection not working?

  • Things to look out for when setting up xDB

    This post highlights some potential pitfalls when setting up xDB on a Sitecore 8.x environment.