# Administrator Guide

# Overview of Analytics

Analytics allows portal managers and business owners to track and analyze portal usage. Analytics provides the following basic functionality:

- Usage Tracking Metrics: Analytics collects and reports metrics of common portal functions, including desktop and portlet hits.
- Behavior Tracking: Users of Analytics reports can analyze portal metrics to determine usage patterns, such as portal visit duration and usage over time.
- User Profile Correlation: Users of 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 Analytics

Analytics is comprised of the following components:

Figure 2-1 Analytics Architecture

The following table describes the components that are delivered with Analytics. For a list of ports used by Analytics, see Installation Guide for BEA AquaLogic Analytics.

Table 2-1 Analytics components
Component | Description
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Analytics services | The Analytics installer loads the Analytics application and the following 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 Analytics data to the end user through the Analytics Console. For details on installing Analytics services, see Installation Guide for BEA AquaLogic Analytics.
Analytics database | The Analytics database component provides storage for metrics that are gathered from portal events. For details on configuring the Analytics database, see Installation Guide for BEA AquaLogic Analytics.