What Makes CardioLog Different
The best SharePoint reporting solution
CardioLog is designed for analyzing SharePoint 2007 and other enterprise portals. Customers point out the following reasons for choosing CardioLog over other web analytic tools - to create their SharePoint usage reports:
- Independent JavaScript tracking agent
- Data aggregation according to portal hierarchy
- Tracking portal-specific user activities
- Tight integration with the organization's Active Directory
- Displaying reports and recommendations through SharePoint 2007 web parts
- Built-in integration with other enterprise applications (e.g., CRM, ERP) and .NET applications
- A single analytics solution for both internet and intranet environments
Independent JavaScript tracking agent
Portal activity is tracked by using CardioLog's JavaScript agent - which is included in the SharePoint portal pages. The agent can monitor all interactions with the browser, and is open for customization.
Data aggregation according to the SharePoint portal hierarchy
For many enterprise portals, including Microsoft SharePoint 2007, the portal hierarchy cannot be expressed through Urls. For instance, a SharePoint 2007 Collaboration Portal which's URL is http://MyPortal can contain a child team-site which's Url is http://TeamSite. This phenomenon makes it impossible to analyze the logical entities of the portal according to Urls.
CardioLog has a built-in tree view of the portal structure, enabling aggregated usage reports for any entity in the portal. For SharePoint 2007, these entities can be - blogs, wikis, publishing sites, personal spaces, document centers, etc. The tree view can be generated automatically for the entire SharePoint portal (including millions of items for large organizations) or manually - according to predefined taxonomies.
By capturing the portal structure, CardioLog provides an overall view of the entire portal, and can also help identify stale content, aiding in portal management and maintenance.
Tracking portal-specific user activities
In addition to viewing content, visitors of collaboration portals actively modify the site content. Visitor activity is tracked seamlessly out-of-box by CardioLog. Actions such as content deletion, content updates, content publishing, document viewing and form submissions are all monitored by CardioLog's client agent. The collected data is used to produce true, insightful usage reports about what do the SharePoint users really do.
Tight integration with the organization's Active Directory
For most enterprise portals, visitors (i.e., company employees) are authenticated within the portal. By connecting CardioLog's tracking agent and reporting interface to the organization's Active Directory, analysts can segment visitors according to Active Directory groups. In addition to Active Directory, CardioLog 2007 can be easily integrated with other external schemas (such as department, security group, etc.) describing the organizational structure, providing additional visitor segmentations.
Displaying SharePoint usage reports and recommendations through SharePoint 2007 web parts
CardioLog usage reports can be easily displayed in SharePoint 2007 web parts, enhancing reporting centers and dashboards.
In addition, CardioLog 2007 offers recommendation web parts which provide portal visitors with linked resources, based on community usage patterns. Recommendations are determined according to a number of factors - such as visitor identity, page URL and search query. These factors are then compared to other visitors' behavior, in order to provide a list of suggested resources that may interest the visitor.
Built-in integration with other enterprise applications
In addition to analyzing the enterprise portal, CardioLog 2007 offers web analysis for additional applications such as Microsoft CMS 2002 .NET applications, and more. Organizations can view usage reports for all of their monitored environments in a single interface, eliminating the need to implement additional web analytic solutions.
A single analytics solution for internet and intranet environments
For organizations who implement a Web Content Management (WCM) solution based on SharePoint 2007, CardioLog provides all the detailed usage reports required to run and operate an internet facing SharePoint site. These SharePoint usage reports are accessible through a single interface which centralizes reporting for both internet and intranet environments.
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