When working in Analytics, it’s easy to view all the requests you receive as disconnected, one-off events. This is the traditional approach for Analytics departments, where Requests would be collected, prioritized and answered accordingly. But there are some issues with this way of handling things: It’s hard to see the bigger picture behind those business questions, especially between departments. Different people may have the same questions but ask them in a different way, leading to different answers. When requests are handled individually, it becomes hard to maintain a standard for the way they should be answered, especially if you are working as part of a team. Since not all stakeholders are equally Data-savy, they may ask for the wrong thing without letting you know what the questions is they are trying to answer. This leads to some awkward situations. People will ask for the wrong or suboptimal reports. You as […]
Month: February 2020
Using Adobe Launch ? for configuration management
Adobe Launch (, by Adobe) ist the tag manager that comes for free with the Adobe Experience Cloud. You can use it to manage and orchestrate all the marketing tags on your websites (not only from Adobe) and reduce integration efforts for the mobile Adobe SDKs to just copy-pasting from the launch interface. For a tutorial, look below on this post. Launch is the successor to the Adobe Dynamic Tag Manager (DTM) which was used in the past, formerly known as Satellite. In 2018 Adobe announced plans to retire DTM fully by 2021 (source: https://medium.com/launch-by-adobe/dtm-plans-for-a-sunset-3c6aab003a6f). So if you are still using DTM, you should start migrating to Launch, which is only a one-click-action under ideal circumstances. Launch can host scripts for pre-tailored use cases (called Extensions) or custom code. With rules, we define when and where things should happen. Last, Data Elements let us define variables that we can use […]