Are you ready to migrate on Piano Analytics? Great news! Lots of things will be automatically migrated from the Analytics Suite 2 to Piano Analytics. You can find them in details here. But some actions need to be done. You'll find below all the actions you need to do in order to implement the new Piano Analytics version.
Are you managing the migration to Piano Analytics?
Certain changes are dependent on others (e.g. the use of custom metrics and segments in other places). We advise you to start with these elements.
Any question or difficulties on the migration? Contact our support team !
Tagging
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Product |
Piano Analytics status |
Required action(s) |
Effort |
Criticality |
Accountability |
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Hybrid Analytics Better consent management. |
Available |
SmartTag update |
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Admins Integrators/techs |
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Properties & Events Set your own events and properties. |
Available |
Add your own events properties |
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Admins Integrators/techs |
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Event based tagging |
S1 2021 |
Change all your taggings to the new format for a better experience. |
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Admins Integrators/techs |
Small
Medium
Important
* Note: These updates are not required, former taggings will still work on Piano Analytics, but new properties and event taggings will allow you to fully take advantage of the Piano Analytics features.
Custom metrics & segments
We’re offering a brand new experience with incredible features and unrivalled performance. Your current resources (metrics, segments) won’t match these new features: this means that to benefit from all the power of this new tool, you’ll need to re-create both types of resources.
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Product |
Piano Analytics status |
Required action(s) |
Effort |
Criticality |
Accountability |
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Custom metrics Items created in Analytics suite 2 will not be available by default. |
Discontinued. |
Recreate metrics in Piano Analytics. |
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All users |
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Segments Items created in Analytics suite 2 will not be available by default. |
Discontinued. |
Recreate segments in Piano Analytics. |
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All users |
Explorer
You will benefit straight away from Explorer’s new powerful infrastructure and analysis power without any action needed on your end. Please note however, that some of your Explorer assets will need to be recreated.
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Feature |
Piano Analytics status |
Required action(s) |
Effort |
Criticality |
Accountability |
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Views |
Available |
All views created in Explorer Analytics Suite 2 will be lost and need to be recreated in Explorer Piano Analytics. |
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All users |
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Product |
Piano Analytics status |
Required action(s) |
Effort |
Criticality |
Accountability |
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Privacy analysis "visitor mode" |
New functionality available |
To use this new functionality, you need to update your smart tag and tagging using the plugin privacy |
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Admins Integrators/techs |
Data Query 3 and API
A completely new engine has been designed to provide you much better performance, user centric analysis and a lot of new features.
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Product |
Piano Analytics status |
Required action(s) |
Effort |
Criticality |
Accountability |
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Data Query templates Items created in Analytics suite 2 will not be available by default. |
Discontinued |
Templates will need to be recreated in Data Query 3. |
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All users |
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API calls API calls created on v2 engine will stop working |
Discontinued |
API calls will have to be done on v3 engine. |
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Integrators/techs |
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API Accounts |
Discontinued |
The new API accounts system will be available in S1 2021 |
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Admins Integrators/techs |
Dashboards
Our dashboarding tool remains available in Piano Analytics, but as soon as your migration is over, you will no longer be able to display or edit your Analytics Suite 2 dashboards.
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Product |
Piano Analytics status |
Comments |
Required action(s) |
Effort |
Criticality |
Accountability |
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Dashboards |
Available |
It will not be possible to mix Analytics Suite 2 and Piano Analytics dashboards, nor to display Analytics Suite 2 dashboards in Piano Analytics. |
You will need to recreate your Analytics Suite 2 dashboards. |
Important |
Mandatory |
All dashboard owners & co-owners |
Reports
Reports will not be available in Piano Analytics, but we offer several alternatives.
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Product |
Piano Analytics status |
Required action(s) |
Effort |
Criticality |
Accountability |
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Reports |
Discontinued. Legacy reports will still be available in the Analytics Suite 2. |
Depending on your needs you will need to recreate equivalents either with dashboards, Data Query 3 projects, or views in Explorer. |
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All users (report owners) |
Exports
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Product |
Piano Analytics status |
Required action(s) |
Effort |
Criticality |
Accountability |
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NX planned reports Scheduled reports in Word, PDF, Excel and csv formats |
Discontinued |
Recreate exports in AS (DQ3 or dashboard depending on the needs) |
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All users (export owners) |
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DQ2 planned exports |
Discontinued |
Recreate exports in DQ3 |
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All users (export owners) |
Data Flow
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Product |
Piano Analytics status |
Required action(s) |
Effort |
Criticality |
Accountability |
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Scheduled Exports Schedule exports every 15/30/60 minutes to your sFTP servers or your amazon S3 buckets. -> Existing Data Flow equivalent |
Discontinued |
Recreate scheduled exports in Data Flow Piano Analytics. There is no continuity between Data Flow of the Analytics suite 2 and Data Flow Piano Analytics. We plan an overlap period where both solutions will work in parallel. |
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Integrators/techs |
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Data Sharing (NEW) Get full access to the Piano Analytics event database thanks to the Snowflake technology. |
Available |
Access to the event database using the Piano Analytics Snowflake warehouses or your own Snowflake warehouses. Make Request from any SQL client. |
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Integrators/techs |
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3rd Party Connectors (NEW) Plug your 3rd party tools to the Piano Analytics event database thanks to the Snowflake technology. |
Available |
Activate the native Snowflake connectors available in your 3rd-party solutions (Tableau, Power BI, etc.). |
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Integrators/techs |
The migration to the Data Flow Piano Analytics consists of 3 main steps. There is no smooth transition between the Data Flow and the Data Flow Piano Analytics. You will therefore have to recreate your flows via the simplified configuration allowed by Piano Analytics. There will be an overlap period during which Data Flow and Data Flow Piano Analytics will work in parallel.
You can already begin to prepare yourself by following the detailed procedure below:
(1) We share a sample file based on the Piano Analytics processing so you can get a first preview of the New Data Model export. You also have at your disposal the mapping file allowing you to see the list of properties available in Data Flow Piano Analytics and those that are modified:
| Mapping Data Flow / Data Flow Piano Analytics | Properties not available in Data Flow |
(2) When you’re ready, we start scheduling the Data Flow Piano Analytics production files. These Piano Analytics exports will therefore work in parallel with CDF exports.
(3) After this transition period, all Data Flow CDF exports will be shut down.
If this is not enough time, we can extend the overlap period between the Data Flow and the Data Flow Piano Analytics. This extension will result in additional costs and you will be invoiced to maintain the operation of both solutions in parallel.
Why migrate to Data Flow Piano Analytics?
The new Data Flow Piano Analytics is based on the high performance of the new Piano Analytics data model. This Data Flow is referred to as NDF (New Data Factory) Data Flow as opposed to CDF (Current Data Factory) Data Flow. The new Data Flow Piano Analytics is designed to help you, one step further, to implement your Big Data projects. You'll be able to recreate your exports more easily in the Data Flow Piano Analytics, get closer to real time streams with better performance and connect your Piano Analytics data to your 3rd-party tools using the Snowflake technology.
In the current Data Flow CDF, setting up an export means that you have to configure several universes per site in order to generate a set of CSV files. These files are then deposited on an FTP server or on an Amazon S3 bucket. You need to then gather these files and reconcile the data in order to reconstitute the single export, which is fairly complex.
CDF Data Flow Operation
The Data Flow Piano Analytics enables you to avoid these complex operations by allowing you to generate a single export of events and standard/custom properties at the sites of your choice.
Here are some additional reasons to migrate to Data Flow Piano Analytics:
- New data model: Overall unification and data quality
- Simplified configuration: no more need to select universes, all events and properties are available (standard and custom)
- New interface: UX reworked via an easy-to-use interface
- New storage: sFTP, S3 and soon Azure, GCP exports
- Direct access to data: Direct access to the events database via Snowflake technology
- Third party tools connection: New integrations thanks to Snowflake technology
- Close to real time: New export frequency - 15, 30, 60 minutes and direct access with Snowflake technology
- Historical data: Access to Piano Analytics data history