Since there are so many ways now for an Omniture customer to manipulate their data (standard data collection, APIs, processing rules, VISTA rules, marketing channel processing rules, etc…), I thought it’d be helpful to share this graphic (credit to Omniture) of the order with which data is processed:

First off, I am not privy to the upgrade timeline and what’s involved there in terms of who gets upgraded and when that happens. That being said, I think that it is important for everyone to be aware of both the benefits of upgrading as well as the customer-side factors that might slow down the decision to migrate. I will also preface this with the fact that I am excited for every client that I work with to get upgraded, as the new features and implementation capabilities will greatly increase what they can do with their analytics investment. SiteCatalyst 15 Migration Benefits: The new context...

A big deal was made at the Omniture Summit of the segmentation available in SiteCatalyst 15. While the advantage of this feature is obviosu to everyone, I do not consider this to be the most significant part of the upgrade of SiteCatalyst to version 15. I consider the greatest new feature of SiteCatalyst 15 to be two things, that when put together, could change how every implementation of SiteCatalyst is undertaken and managed on a regular basis. These two things are context variables and processing rules. Below, I will detail what context variables and the processing rules are, and then discuss...