Report Suites Architecture

I have seen lot of people started thinking about development, when we ask them to integrate site catalyst, Google analytic or urchin in their site, people are immediately jumping into code like how to call JavaScript to record data into site catalyst and how to retrieve site catalyst data etc… but all these things are simple, we can get lot of examples when we read respective SDK’s, but there is another area where we need to put actual attention

What is Report Suite in Site Catalyst?

Every day the omniture system captures thousand of records from web application or website which are integrated with ominture, where exactly all these information stores? These information stores in report suite of site catalyst and we need to pass reportsuiteid for every request

Is one report suite sufficient for entire application?

Before creating new report suite we need to identify what kind of information the client wants to track and what kind of reports he/she wants to generate, without having all these required information in your hand and if you blindly starts then you will be definitely in big mess

Because the report suite supports only 100 events, 75 Traffic variables and 75 conversion variables, what if we want track more than 100 events and if we want to create 76 Traffic variable ?

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if we create single report suite for entire Amazon site, then it is very difficult to maintain, if India location head wants to see last one month reports of “Amazon India site” then to generate this report is difficult, we need to apply filters, sometimes the data accuracy problem may occur, and sometimes the events, variables may cross the limit and also we are missing modularization concept here

The solution for this is create new report suite for every location, so that the location head can easily generate reports,  sometimes we may need aggregate data across all locations, we can create global report suite which contain all locations information 

Note : creating report suites is totally depends on how you organize your data , don't forget to get complete information from your client and also the information architects or CMS experts can help on this