By default Sitecore comes with a few default reports within the Engagement Analytics. Depending on the report you can get insights about the website or its visitors. You can filter those reports with the standard filters like business classification, country and state. But did you know that adding your own filters is fairly easy. Let’s say we have the following case: We have a standard Sitecore installation in which we define two seperate websites. To make this work we need to make More Info »

In my recent project I had the challenge to adjust the site context language to the location of the website visitor. That means determining the visitor’s country and related language based on its ip-adress. First of all some background information on the process of determining the context language. The process is going through the following steps: The sc_lang query string parameter The Sitecore.Data.FilePathLanguage property, containing the language as part of the url The language cookie associated with the context site The default language associated More Info »

For my presentation about the DMS datamodel I created a great amount of slides. I didn’t have time to show all the slides because I only had about 60 minutes to do the talk. I uploaded the complete slidedeck to Slideshare including additional slides about Profiling and Automation. The complete session has been recorded and will be shared after the Symposium. Thanks for attending the session and for the great questions. Hope you have enjoyed the session. If you have any feedback More Info »

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Sitecore: Track External Link with DMSThis article is part of Sitecore How To: Track Exteral links with DMS series. Before starting with this step you need to be finished with Step 1: Save outgoing click to the DMS analytics database. For this solution I want to measure all the outgoing link using the Analytics Database of Sitecore Digital Marketing System (DMS). Based on this data I want to create a report in the Sitecore Engagement More Info »

In this article I’m going to explain how to convert .mrt reports from the Sitecore Online Marketing Suite (Sitecore 6.4) to the Sitecore Digital Marketing System (Sitecore 6.5). Report related changes between OMS and DMS Both the OMS and the DMS use .mrt reports for Analitics reporting. There are two mayor changes between the OMS and DMS reporting; a full redesign of the datamodel and the location of the SQL query for the report data. Mapping the datamodel of the OMS with More Info »