# About BEA AquaLogic Analytics

BEA AquaLogic(R) Analytics ("Analytics") is an advanced usage tracking and analytics tool. This portal add-on enables you to assess portal return-on-investment (ROI) and define future opportunities with usage trends in mind. Analytics delivers the following features out-of-the-box:

- Usage Tracking Metrics: Analytics plugs directly into the portal engine to retrieve metrics for communities, pages, portlets, content items, documents, and Ensemble resources. Additionally, Analytics retrieves metrics for search queries, logins, and more.
- Behavior tracking: Analytics tracks usage patterns, such as community visits, as well as the duration of portal use and community response times.
- User Profile Correlation: Analytics correlates metric information with user profile information in order for usage tracking reports to be viewed and filtered by profile data, such as country, company, and department.
- Custom Event Tracking: Portal Administrators and developers can register custom portal and non-portal events that are sent to Analytics using the OpenUsage API. Event data is saved to the Analytics database, which can then be queried for reporting to a portal or non-portal application.

Analytics is designed to plug-n-play with BEA AquaLogic Interaction. Information is gathered in real time using low overhead and the reliable Portal Message Bus (PMB) transport protocol. The reports can be retrieved via the portal in real time using either a secure or non-secure connection. Additionally, the Analytics star schema database approach ensures high report performance, as well as the ability to store millions of portal events. Using Analytics Administration, custom portal and non-portal event data can be registered, saved, and reported back to non-portal applications.