1 Overview of Oracle WebCenter Analytics

Oracle WebCenter Analytics allows portal managers and business owners to track and analyze portal usage with usage tracking metrics, behavior tracking, and user profile correlation.

Usage Tracking Metrics: Oracle WebCenter Analytics collects and reports metrics of common portal functions, including desktop and portlet hits.
Behavior Tracking: Users of Oracle WebCenter Analytics reports can analyze portal metrics to determine usage patterns, such as portal visit duration and usage over time.
User Profile Correlation: Users of Oracle WebCenter Analytics reports can correlate metric information with user profile information. Usage tracking reports can be viewed and filtered by user profile data such as country, company or title.

Components of Oracle WebCenter Analytics

Oracle WebCenter Analytics is comprised of the following components:

Figure 1-1 Oracle WebCenter Analytics Architecture

Description of "Figure 1-1 Oracle WebCenter Analytics Architecture"

The following table describes the components that are delivered with Oracle WebCenter Analytics. For a list of ports used by Oracle WebCenter Analytics, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation and Upgrade Guide for Oracle WebCenter Analytics (for Oracle WebLogic Portal).

Table 1-1 Oracle WebCenter Analytics Components

Component	Description
Analytics services	The Oracle WebCenter Analytics installer loads the Oracle WebCenter Analytics application and the following Oracle WebCenter Analytics services on a stand-alone server: BEA AL Analytics Collector service receives data and gathers data from the portal database. The BEA AL Analytics service provides Oracle WebCenter Analytics data to the end user through the Analytics Console. For details on installing Analytics services, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation and Upgrade Guide for Oracle WebCenter Analytics (for Oracle WebLogic Portal).
Analytics database	The Analytics database component provides storage for metrics that are gathered from portal events. For details on configuring the Oracle WebCenter Analytics database, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation and Upgrade Guide for Oracle WebCenter Analytics (for Oracle WebLogic Portal).

Component

Description

Analytics services

The Oracle WebCenter Analytics installer loads the Oracle WebCenter Analytics application and the following Oracle WebCenter Analytics services on a stand-alone server:

BEA AL Analytics Collector service receives data and gathers data from the portal database.
The BEA AL Analytics service provides Oracle WebCenter Analytics data to the end user through the Analytics Console.

For details on installing Analytics services, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation and Upgrade Guide for Oracle WebCenter Analytics (for Oracle WebLogic Portal).

Analytics database

The Analytics database component provides storage for metrics that are gathered from portal events. For details on configuring the Oracle WebCenter Analytics database, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation and Upgrade Guide for Oracle WebCenter Analytics (for Oracle WebLogic Portal).