One of the big changes will be the Java applets, which most likely will not be there in the new release. The new release most likely will use Flash to display graphs. Other enhancements are better integration with the Marketing Warehouse and Dynamic Search. We’ll keep you posted!
With this aquisition WebTrends shows that they are not only into building great software but also see consulting as one of their services. Currently WebTrends works with an large partner network of web (analytics) agencies and related type of companies. This could well change in the future.
WebTrends buys Swedish analytics consultancy company press release.
There is some licensing news though. WebTrends is introducing a Express edition of Marketing Warehouse with licencing costs based on a amount of analyzed PageViews for the normal profile.
This is what Scot Roth from WebTrends tells us:
As to the question of the cost of Marketing Warehouse – based on the sales experiences we’ve had since the solution was launched we feel very confident that it is competitively priced relative to the competitive offerings that are available and the unmatched level of individual visitor insight that our solution provides. In addition, to help companies of all shapes and sizes take advantage of advanced analytics, we’ve recently released Marketing Warehouse Express that has a single price point for the complete solution (needs analysis, implementation, and annual product usage).The “single price point” for Marketing Warehouse Express comment means two things. First, you pay one price to use the hosted solution for a year – that price includes implementation, configuration, full usage of the product, and ongoing support. Second, as long as the web property (or properties) that you want to analyze with Marketing Warehouse Express collect under 250M PV’s per year, there is one price for the solution – regardless of how big or small your site is.
To build this report, I used a WebTrends Custom Report with one custom Dimension and the standard WebTrends Dimension Product (Drilldown). The Custom Dimension includes a translation with a Custom Report Datasource.
These are the steps I took to get this report:
1. Create Custom Report Datasource translation file “Visitor.csv.txt” and place it on the WebTrends server.
2. Create Custom Report Datasource
3. Create a Custom Dimension based on Visitor (this is the IP address). Check “Override default string” and enter “Extrernal” as description. This will replace the “None” in your report. Enter a Regular Expression to pick out the IP addresses of the CCC’s so that these will be translated and the other IP addresses won’t.
2. Create a new Custom Report, add the newly created Custom Dimension “Visitor” and the WebTrends dimension “Product (Drilldown)”.
Now add this Custom Report to your profile and analyze it.
This is how your report will look like (I removed dimension Product (Drilldown) for this screenshot.
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Set the maximum depth for which drilldown tables are expanded in a full PDF or Word export. If only a single report is exported, then any drilldown tables are fully expanded, regardless of the value of this setting. A depth limit of 1 will limit the expansion to the first dimension, a depth limit of 2 will limit the expansion to the first two dimensions, etc. A value of zero disables the limit. However, depending on the report template in use, some systems may not have sufficient resources to generate a full report when this limit is disabled or set to a larger value.
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<xsl :variable name=”drilldown-table-depth-limit” select=”2″ />
And edit it to your wishes. You’re done!
New features in WebTrends 8.0d
Read the PDF to see which issues have been solved in WebTrends 8.0c. And the PDF listing all changes to WebTrends 8.0c
The files found below provide a solution for customers with WebTrends Analytics version 8.0a software and Internet Explorer 7. This solution contains updated files for the User Interface server and SmartView. Two new files are required, and these are available on our FTP site:
SmartView update
WebTrends UI server update
Installation Instructions:
We recommend backing up the WebTrends installation directory before proceeding.
The next time users run SmartView from an updated server, they will be informed that a newer version is available and asked to upgrade. Once they select “Upgrade” the new SmartView client will be downloaded and installed over their previous version. The new version includes support for both Internet Explorer 6 and 7.
We often create Custom Reports or change filters for our WebTrends customers. After doing so, I re-analyze the profile. All old logfiles are already FTP-ed to a local server and the logfiles of last week are still located on the live server. I always use two Data Sources, one pointing to the old logfiles and one pointing to the new logfiles. After analyzing the profile with the Data Source pointing to the old logfiles, I change the Data Source bound to the profile to the Data Source pointing to the new logfiles.
With normal profiles everything works fine. Though, with ParentChild profiles WebTrends first deletes all data before analyzing the new logfiles.
This is considered a bug 
Follow these steps to make this change:
1) Stop the wtrs and wtrs_ui services.
2) Open the wtm_wtx.ini file with a text editor such as Notepad.
3) Find the following line in the [PROFILE] section:
TopDirectoriesMaxDepth=
4) If the line is not already present, add it.
5) Set the value. The default setting is 1, which means limit the
report to just the top levels. To see the top two levels, set this value
to 2. To see all directories regardless of level, set this value to 0.
6) Close and save the wtm_wtx.ini file.
7) Restart WT services
Thanks to WebTrends forum member Scholar for this information.