Omniture & Fedora

[Robert 'Bob' Jensen]

Jesse Eversole Jr wrote:
> Sure,
> 
> Omniture uses what I call a "client side" tracking technique using 
> javascript to dynamically markup an image tag with a query string and 
> fetch that image from Omniture's servers sending data to them via the 
> query string.  Google and Yahoo offer similar services with less 
> sophisticated features, but the approach is effectively the same.  The 
> data is stored on Omniture's servers and available for reporting in near 
> real time especially when it comes to basic traffic data.  It is 
> probably important to note that Omniture and awstats are not mutually 
> exclusive.  One is server based and the other runs on the webpage 
> sending data to a hosted platform.
> 
> I would have to dig into details to completely expose what our license 
> agreement with Omniture is as is applies to the usage of their software 
> since is a service that we buy from them.  Omniture is more akin to 
> Salesforce.com and Google Analytics.
> To get started with the base functionality of Omniture you drop in some 
> javascript, hopefully in a header or footer, and a few minutes later you 
> can login to your account and start looking at traffic reports.  
> Omniture has many sophisticated features one of which has the interest 
> of Red Hat in response to your comment about Red Hat's needs relating to 
> Fedora.  We have the capability with Omniture to do cross-domain path 
> analysis.  That is, we can gain much deeper insight into the 
> relationship between the two or more sites from tracking cross site 
> browsing behavior.  We can track visitor paths across multiple sites 
> including our international sites.  This extends beyond simple entry and 
> exit page analysis.  The data is rich and the reporting interface 
> powerful to the extent that it takes some time to explore all the 
> different capabilities should the Fedora community wish to use Omniture 
> for some of its own reporting.
> 
> We have been asked by the JBoss folks to setup jboss.org and I am 
> currently working with that group to outfit jboss.org.  It is almost a 
> cut and paste task into a header template for basic tracking and you are 
> welcome to sit in (with my management's approval of course) on that 
> deployment and post deployment reporting.  The decision as to whether 
> deploying a piece of javascript code on a fedora.org page supplied by 
> Red Hat using a Red Hat funded hosting service like Omniture is in 
> conflict with Fedora's core mission in my opinion clearly belongs to the 
> Fedora community.
> Thanks,
> 
> Jesse
> 

Personally as a fedora project contributor I think this kind of 
information for FEDORA.ORG might be interesting. I am not sure who owns 
that domain but it sure would help us put a value on it just in case the 
Fedora Project wants to buy it some day.

Hopefully you get my point.

-- 
73,

Robert 'Bob' Jensen
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