Archive for the ‘Visual Sciences’ Category
February 4, 2008
So you had all heard the news and many of us blogged about it right away: Omniture acquired Visual Sciences for an amount equal to half the GDP of a small African country, but I digress 😉
The convenient truth (that no one in the world of vendor partners will admit to) is this: it’s going to be a hell of a lot easier to market SiteCatalyst-class and Discover-class solutions, without having to have our clients choose between Omniture and Visual Sciences.
Let us look in detail at the new array of solutions being offered by the Jolly Green Giant (ho ho ho):
“Traditional” Omniture solutions:
- Omniture SiteCatalyst: with version 14 coming soon, this is undoubtedly the established standard for web analytics reporting. No surprise here.
- Omniture Discover: the Java-based 3D data exploration module that makes web data mining a breeze (notice how I bolded ‘web data’)
- Omniture Genesis: the hub module that ties together data from other solution partners for integration into SiteCatalyst
- Omniture TouchClarity: the BT (behavioral targeting) module
- Omniture Offermatica: the MVT (multi variable testing) module
- Omniture SearchCenter: the bid management tool (to bid on keyword auctions)
Rebranded former Visual Sciences solutions:
- HBX becomes… *drumroll* … SiteCatalyst HBX! As you can imagine, Omniture will no longer take on new HBX clients but will support existing customers until they eventually migrate to “regular” SiteCatalyst.
- Visual Site, Visual Sale, Visual Bid and Visual Search… Wellthey’re going the way of HBX so wait and see…
- Visual Workstation becomes … Discover On Premises! So far, everyone I have talked to agrees that the rebranding is misleading. Discover On Premises suggests that the product offers the same exploration capabilities as “regular” Discover but with the ability to host the solution in-house. Now when I bolded “web data” earlier, it was to emphasize the fact that Discover On Premises handles all sorts of marketing information: both web and offline data.
What about Platform 5 you ask? that’ s a question for a follow-up post 🙂
In the meantime, please leave your consitructive comments at the beep 🙂
Tags:discover, hbx, Omniture, premises, sciences, visual, workstation
Posted in Omniture, Thoughts and Ideas, Visual Sciences, Web Analytics, Web Analytics Industry News | Comments Off on Omniture gets new toys
January 30, 2008
De retour de Paris après une journée à rallonge et un retour plus que mouvementé (le progrès ne vaut que s’il est partagé par tous), je voulais vous faire part de mes impressions sur le 2ème Forum e-Marketing. Avant d’attirer des commentaires, je tenais à préciser que ce billet ne porte que sur la journée du mardi 29 janvier et ne prend pas en compte les interventions du mercredi 30.
Merci en tout cas à toute l’équipe de ebusiness.info pour cette organisation impeccable! Quoi qu’on en dise, cette édition du forum était nettement plus qualifiée que celle de février dernier.
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Tags:alenty, conférences, ebusiness, forum, internet, marketing, Omniture, paris, salon, xiti
Posted in Blogging, In French, Omniture, Visual Sciences, Web 2.0, Web Analytics, Web Analytics Industry News, xiti | 1 Comment »
November 4, 2007
When René barged into our bedroom some 72 hours ago with my laptop in his hand, announcing Greg Drew’s departure from WebTrends, we finally understood why his name had been popping-up on searches to our blog for the last 24 hours in such an abnormal way.
I had thought Greg already looked tired when we briefly met in Washington and attributed that logically to the Road shows that WebTrends was holding, following its August release of the long awaited Marketing Lab² (ML²).
On the other hand, this news also reminded me of some discussions we had back in the spring in San Francisco with some WebTrends folks about the need for a refreshing touch within WebTrends in order to get past the very bad feeling we all shared about the first release of Marketing Lab. All partners we talked to were anxiously waiting – for far too long, I really want to stress that – for a more advanced release that would bring true added value to our existing clients. With ML1, this was clearly not the case.
ClickShift aka Dynamic Search
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Posted in eMetrics, Omniture, Thoughts and Ideas, Visual Sciences, Web Analytics, Web Analytics Industry News, WebTrends | 2 Comments »
October 31, 2007
After the acquisition of Visual Sciences, we all wonder how Web Analytics vendors will react. So let’s get back to the different vendors out there and try to take a look at the future.
If we take the latest Forrester Research regarding Web Analytics that Megan Burns wrote a few months ago, which you can download here at Unica’s website, we find the main Web Analytics vendors well represented. Here’s a graph that sums up Megan’s findings:
Based on this, on the leaders corner we will have after this merger: Omniture, WebTrends, Unica and Coremetrics. But other players need to be followed as ClickTracks, IndexTools, of course the free tools as Google Analytics and the coming Gatineau and let’s not forget the local players such as Nedstat (The Netherlands) or Xiti (France).
So Omniture is becoming the Web Analytics green giant, will the others be able to compete and how? (more…)
Tags:clicktracks, coremetrics, forrester, megan burns, nedstat, visual sciences acquisition, xiti
Posted in Gatineau, Google Analytics, IndexTools, Omniture, Thoughts and Ideas, Unica, Visual Sciences, Web Analytics, Web Analytics Industry News, WebTrends | 2 Comments »
October 27, 2007
Yesterday I had a journalist calling me to ask my opinion regarding Visual Sciences’ takeover by Omniture. Since becoming a public company, Omniture has been acquiring different companies, but one can wonder: where’s Omniture going
Omniture strategy: Pacman?
We see different types of acquisitions done by Omniture in the past:
- Complementary products to enhance the portfolio of solutions proposed to their clients. This is the case for TouchClarity and Offermatica. One could argue that buying TouchClarity also allowed Omniture to have a better UK presence, but my feeling is that the technology was the first motivation for this acquisition. Other Web analytics players have also done acquisitions of this type as WebTrends with Position Gold and Dynamic Search or WebSideStory with Publish.
- A different type of acquisition made by Omniture is the one represented by that of Instadia. Instadia was a great Danish WA product that got acquired last year and if it wasn’t clear enough at the beginning, it is clear crystal now what the intentions where. Even if the product was interesting, Instadia’s product has been abandoned and clients are being migrated towards Omniture’s SiteCatalyst. The objectives behind this acquisition were to gain presence in the European market through customers and skillful employees that could integrate the rapidly growing European Omniture’s team (Omniture is now one of the vendors with most resources in the European market).
Based on this, where the does Visual Sciences acquisition fall? Well, a bit in between both scenarios. Buying Visual Sciences provides Omniture with clients, great minds and probably the best analytical and data visualization tool out there. See below for more details about Visual Sciences in the Omniture ecosystem. (more…)
Posted in Omniture, Visual Sciences, Web Analytics, Web Analytics Industry News | 7 Comments »
October 26, 2007
Omniture, le géant mondial des WA vient d’annoncer le rachat de son concurrent direct, Visual Sciences (anciennement connu sous le nom de WebSideStory) pour la coquette somme de 394 millions de dollars, soit un peu moins du quart de la valorisation d’Omniture.
Il y avait bien entendu des rumeurs sur le sujet, comme le soulignait Ian Thomas cet été.
Au-delà du montant de la transaction qui ne sera finalisée que l’année prochaine, ce rachat de VS permet à Omniture de consolider sa position de leader mais remet surtout en question l’équilibre de la concurrence entre les différents éditeurs.
Pour les partenaires d’Omniture ou de VS, la situation risque de devenir intéressante car ce rachat permettrait de proposer une gamme de solutions vraiment modulable même si je pressens que HBX va disparaître (à terme) au profit de SiteCatalyst. Il y aura donc tout un effort d’accompagnement des clients à ce moment-là .
Plus d’informations sur l’intégration des offres et services à partir de l’année prochaine 🙂
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Comme d’habitude, vos commentaires constructifs sont les bienvenus 🙂
Tags:achat, Omniture, omtr, Visual Sciences, vs
Posted in In French, Omniture, Visual Sciences, Web Analytics, Web Analytics Industry News | 2 Comments »
October 26, 2007
Title says it all 🙂
An announcement by Jim MacIntyre goes:
Visual Sciences has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Omniture, Inc.
The press release announcing this acquisition is available for review on our website. Until regulatory review of the acquisition is complete and the transaction closes, both companies will continue to operate independently and will continue to compete in the marketplace. This means that we will continue to deliver the products, service and support that your businesses can rely on.We understand that you will have questions about the future of the products lines. Future direction for products will be determined following the closing of the transaction and after comprehensive planning and feedback from customers and partners.
There we have it folks; I personally like to think of it as the integration of the best of both worlds.
Let’s see how this develops 🙂
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Tags:Omniture, Visual Sciences, vs
Posted in Omniture, Visual Sciences, Web Analytics, Web Analytics Industry News | Comments Off on Omniture in the process of buying Visual Sciences
May 23, 2007
WebSideStory will no longer exist. Bob Chatham announced at Emetrics San Francisco a couple of weeks ago, that the nice brand WebSideStory would no longer exist, but don’t be afraid, the company hasn’t closed, it’s just that it changes its name to Visual Sciences, to better reflect the new positioning of the company.
Last year, at Emetrics Washington Bob did already a very interesting presentation explaining the positioning of WSS after VS acquisition: going towards ‘Customer Analytics’. Back then, Bob explained how Web Analytics would enlarge it’s scope from simply Web analytics to Customer Analytics going through Internet Channel Analytics and Multi-Channel Analytics. I remember that this presentation was really inspiring; Aurélie and I were very excited with this new overture in Web Analytics and by Eric’s private demo of Visual Sciences. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Visual Sciences, you may read a couple of posts that Aurélie wrote following Emetrics Washington 2006:
Getting back to Bob’s presentation of last week, here are some of the points that got most of my attention: (more…)
Posted in eMetrics, Emetrics San Francisco 2007, Events, Visual Sciences, Web Analytics, Web Analytics Industry News | 2 Comments »
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