What Is Adobe Analytics?

Adobe Analytics has become one of the most powerful analytical tools on the planet - used by companies big and small across practically every industry on the planet.

But what is Adobe Analytics?

To explain, we asked one of our Adobe Analytics certified experts to give a complete breakdown of everything Adobe Analytics has to offer.

Adobe Analytics is a popular platform designed to report real-time insights and historical data to business owners about how their audiences behave, especially once these shoppers arrive on their websites. Business owners can use this information to make immediate changes to their site or to develop long-term strategies to better engage visitors and convert them.

Oras Adobe puts it:

Originally, the platform was part of an online marketing company called Omniture, but Adobe acquired it back in 2009. Since then, Adobe Analytics has been used by hundreds of thousands of businesses, including many familiar names like:

• Barclays
• Citibank
• Deloitte
• Dell
• Du Pont
• Ford
• Hyatt
• MasterCard
• Nissan
• Philips
• Sprint
• T-Mobile
• The Telegraph
• True Value
• Wlson 

And yet, as I’ll show a bit later, most companies that entrust their online success to Adobe Analytics are actually small businesses.

Let’s talk about why so many business owners think the price is worth it.

In short, Adobe Analytics offers five main benefits, though each one could easily represent its own blog post.

The first is the way the platform goes about collecting data, which covers a lot more than simply recording clicks on your website. Adobe uses machine learning, artificial intelligence, and a host of other advanced technologies to gather and present the kind of information you want for your marketing campaigns. With the platform’sCalculated Metrics, you can even set up your own custom analytics to tell Adobe what kinds of user behaviors you want its cutting-edge technology to report on. Then, segment these metrics as you see fit for an even better understanding of your company’s unique market.

Second, Adobe Analytics is able to gather this data from just about every channel imaginable, including those that happen offline. So, Adobe Analytics can go beyond just tracking desktop and mobile interactions. The platform can just as easilyrecord information coming from brick-and-mortar stores  and wearables or other “Internet of Things” devices. With itsCustomer Journey Analytics, online and in-store teams will never end up with competing perspectives, making it easy for both to work together at improving sales.

Third, Adobe Analytics is practically unrivaled when it comes tocross-channel attribution, which means it’s phenomenal for providing information about every interaction from every single customer, whether it happens through earned, paid, or owned channels. You can trust Adobe’s algorithms to handle these attributions or create your own rules to account for any tendencies specific to your market.

And fourth, Adobe really prides itself on their platform’s “predictive analytics.” Instead of simply presenting data about past events,Adobe Analytics leverages AI and machine learning  to automatically review this information and make predictions about what the future holds for a company’s online efforts.

It’s also worth noting that, while it’sverypopular with small- and medium-sized business owners, Adobe Analytics was clearly designed with some of the unique needs of enterprises in mind. Specifically, the platform makes it extremely easy to share the insights it gathers, making it easy for colleagues to contribute to your strategy.

And if you need a little more informaiton to help with your decision, we've written an absolutely massive post that goes into the top 10 best features of Adobe Analytics, which includes a video, too.

According to research done by HG Insights that looked at 52,458 companies using Adobe Analytics, more than 40% report annual revenues of $1,000,000 to $10,000,000. To these companies, generating millions in revenue every year is an easy expense to justify at practically any price.

Source:https://discovery.hgdata.com/product/adobe-analytics

Interestingly, most companies reporting these kinds of results are small businesses with only 1-49 employees.

So, while the price tag and prestige of this premium platform may intimidate you a bit if you’re a small business owner, many in your position have found that it’s worth the investment.

One more factor that’s very important to understand about Adobe Analytics before paying for it is that making the most of this platform requires more than just an investment of money. You’ll also need to invest a significant amount of time into learning how Adobe Analytics works.

For many marketers, this means going through the process tobecome certified in the platform. Adobe recommends that you spend at least two years gaining experience with analytics before you bother paying to take the certification exam.

However, at the very least, you should expect to spend a minimum of three months learning how to become proficient with Adobe Analytics.

As I covered earlier, this platform is  extremely  robust. I’d even go so far as to say that Adobe Analytics can be overwhelming if you don’t understand it – to say nothing of how much money you’ll be wasting if you’re not able to take full advantage of what it can do.

Having experience with other analytics platforms, like Google’s, will definitely help, but Adobe’s version is definitely different (though not necessarily any less user-friendly). If anything, Adobe Analytics is actually incredibly easy to use given just how much it can do.

After all, there's a reason so many companies love Adobe's suite of tools (well, many reasons).

Deciding to entrust your website’s success to an analytics platform is a big decision, especially when it means leaving behind free options like Google Analytics.

Fortunately, we've done a lenghty breakdown of the differences between Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics if you're interested.

We've also discussed the price of Adobe Analytics, which isn't as straightforward as just one flat fee.

If you’re looking for a way to better attract, engage, and sell your customers, giveAdobe Analytics a try or feel free to reach out to us to speak with one of our Adobe Analytics certified experts.