Web Usage Reporting Tools
After my initial post on usage reporting I came across a few usage tools that I wanted to share. I have been impressed with the manageability work the Idevfactory has been doing I hope to get a demo soon... the screenshots and capabilities sound pretty good. Really interesting work. The Quest tool I've mentioned before, but you may not have seen the work they've done in manageability. It's is a really good start as well, would like to see more on usage based looped in with what they're doing with storage. I haven't seen the admin reporting kit from Vyapin, but it's worth mentioning as well...
I do hear some customers are using WebTrends and Omniture which aren't really specifically focused on building SharePoint specifics, but with bots or little scripts dropped on your pages or in your style sheets or master pages, make it easier to get the page reporting metrics you might hope for.
I hope to reroll this list with a management focus in the near future, but rather than wait for that, here's some that have more reporting (some are management focused, but do include reporting capabilities which is why I'm listing them here.)
- IDevFactory Universal SharePoint Manager USPM 2007
http://www.idevfactory.com/products/uspm2007/features/sharepoint%20reporting%20farm.aspx
- Vyapin - Admin Reporting Kit for SharePoint 2007 ARKSP 2007
http://www.vyapin.com/products/enterprisenetworktools/arksp2007.htm
Sites & sub-sites configuration details, site security settings, lists created in a site, alerts, site permission levels, site people & groups, site permissions, site content types, site hits summary, page hits, site visitors, web pages, web parts, web parts utilization, recycle bin, list templates, audit event reports etc. for the Site
- Quest Software - Capacity Manager (focused on storage and growth)
http://www.quest.com/capacity-manager-for-sharepoint/
I have heard enterprise products Omniture, WebTrends being used in SharePoint deployments. People are using the tools to gather site statistics. When they need to drill on certain pages they include js or equivalent tracking bots on the page that provide accurate statistics for how often a page is requested. One customer said they were rolling out some tracking in their CSS and potentially their master page for tracking.
Mondosoft and Ontolica Reporting for SharePoint (details coming soon?)
http://www.ontolica.com/Ontolica%20for%20MOSS%202007/Ontolica%20Reporting.aspx
Ontolica has shown they know search. They also know how to play nice with SharePoint. I'm anxious to see what they are doing in this area. It's true some of the in the box investments are in reporting are in this area, but there's sooo much more that could be done to address true reporting in this space.
- WebOps tracking in SharePoint Pages and lists (I hear the bots work with WSS and MOSS lists, but the site and tool looks like it needs updating)
http://www.webobs.com/V2/en-us/keyfeatures.aspx
CardioLog 2007 is a web analytics solution designed for Enterprise Portals such as SharePoint 2007. By having its own JavaScript tracking agent, and identifying SharePoint's object model, CardioLog 2007 provides first class usage reports for SharePoint 2007.
http://www.intlock.com/intlocksite/ProductsAndServices/Cardiolog.asp
Creating your own reports for your Web App. This 15 Seconds ASP.NET steps should work for WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 as well with some slight differences. http://www.15seconds.com/issue/050623.htm
