Create Dashboards and Visualize Live Adobe Analytics Data in Geckoboard



Use CData Connect Cloud to connect to live Adobe Analytics data and create dashboards for real-time monitoring and visualization in Geckoboard.

Geckoboard is a business intelligence tool that simplifies the visualization of key performance indicators (KPIs) by creating live dashboards. It allows teams to consolidate data from various sources - such as Salesforce, Snowflake, Google Analytics, and spreadsheets - and display it in a visually engaging and easy-to-understand format. Designed for simplicity and clarity, Geckoboard helps businesses monitor performance, track goals, and make data-driven decisions.

When used with CData Connect Cloud, you gain instant, cloud-to-cloud access to Adobe Analytics data from Geckoboard for dashboards, monitoring, visualizations, and more. This article explains how to connect to Adobe Analytics and create visualizations using Adobe Analytics data in Geckoboard.

CData Connect Cloud offers a seamless SQL Server, cloud-to-cloud interface for Adobe Analytics, enabling you to effortlessly create dashboards and visualizations using live Adobe Analytics data in Geckoboard. While building visualizations, Geckoboard requires SQL queries to retrieve the necessary data. With built-in optimized data processing, CData Connect Cloud pushes all supported SQL operations (such as filters and JOINs) directly to Adobe Analytics, utilizing server-side processing for fast and efficient data retrieval of Adobe Analytics data.

Configure Adobe Analytics connectivity for Geckoboard

Connectivity to Adobe Analytics from Geckoboard is made possible through CData Connect Cloud. To work with Adobe Analytics data from Geckoboard, we start by creating and configuring a Adobe Analytics connection.

  1. Log into Connect Cloud, click Connections and click Add Connection
  2. Select "Adobe Analytics" from the Add Connection panel
  3. Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Adobe Analytics.

    Adobe Analytics uses the OAuth authentication standard. To authenticate using OAuth, you will need to create an app to obtain the OAuthClientId, OAuthClientSecret, and CallbackURL connection properties. See the "Getting Started" section of the help documentation for a guide.

    Retrieving GlobalCompanyId

    GlobalCompanyId is a required connection property. If you do not know your Global Company ID, you can find it in the request URL for the users/me endpoint on the Swagger UI. After logging into the Swagger UI Url, expand the users endpoint and then click the GET users/me button. Click the Try it out and Execute buttons. Note your Global Company ID shown in the Request URL immediately preceding the users/me endpoint.

    Retrieving Report Suite Id

    Report Suite ID (RSID) is also a required connection property. In the Adobe Analytics UI, navigate to Admin -> Report Suites and you will get a list of your report suites along with their identifiers next to the name.

    After setting the GlobalCompanyId, RSID and OAuth connection properties, you are ready to connect to Adobe Analytics.

  4. Click Create & Test
  5. Navigate to the Permissions tab in the Add Adobe Analytics Connection page and update the User-based permissions

Add a Personal Access Token

If you are connecting from a service, application, platform, or framework that does not support OAuth authentication, you can create a Personal Access Token (PAT) to use for authentication. Best practices would dictate that you create a separate PAT for each service, to maintain granularity of access.

  1. Click on your username at the top right of the Connect Cloud app and click User Profile
  2. On the User Profile page, scroll down to the Personal Access Tokens section and click Create PAT
  3. Give your PAT a name and click Create
  4. The personal access token is only visible at creation, so be sure to copy it and store it securely for future use

With the connection configured, you are ready to connect to Adobe Analytics data from Geckoboard.

Connect live Adobe Analytics data in Geckoboard

Follow these steps to establish a connection from Geckoboard to the CData Connect Cloud Virtual SQL Server API.

  1. Log into Geckoboard
  2. Add a custom dashboard name and click Add widget
  3. Search for "Databases" in the Connect your data search bar
  4. Select SQL Server as the Database type
  5. Fill in the connection details:
    • Connection name: enter a name for the connection to CData Connect Cloud
    • Host: enter the Virtual SQL Server endpoint: tds.cdata.com
    • Port: : enter 14333
    • Database name: enter the Connection Name of the CData Connect Cloud data source you want to connect to (for example, AdobeAnalytics1)
    • Username: enter your CData Connect Cloud username. This is displayed in the top-right corner of the CData Connect Cloud interface. For example, [email protected]
    • Password: enter the PAT you generated on the Settings page
  6. Click Connect

After successfully configuring your connection, you can query and visualize your Adobe Analytics data.

Visualize live Adobe Analytics data in Geckoboard

To visualize live Adobe Analytics data in Geckoboard, follow these steps:

  1. Write an SQL query to select the specific Adobe Analytics data needed for visualization in Paste your SQL query compiler screen
  2. Depending on your use case, you can also generate the desired SQL query using the AI Generator or Query Builder features of CData Connect Cloud

  3. Choose the visualization type (Line Chart, Bar Chart, or Column Chart) that best suits your business requirements
  4. The selected chart will be displayed on Geckoboard
  5. Click the menu (three dots in the top-right corner of the graph) and select Edit to modify the SQL query or set a refresh interval for the chart
  6. Live access to Adobe Analytics data from cloud applications

    At this stage, you have established a direct, cloud-to-cloud connection to live Adobe Analytics data in Geckoboard. This enables you to create dashboards to monitor and visualize your data seamlessly.

    For more details on accessing live data from over 100 SaaS, Big Data, and NoSQL sources through cloud applications like Geckoboard, visit our Connect Cloud page.

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