Analytics product comparison and requirements
Last update: October 16, 2024
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This page contains a comparison of various Adobe Analytics products: Analysis Workspace, Report Builder, Data Warehouse, Data Feeds and Analytics API 2.0.
For information on which Adobe Analytics product to use, see Which Adobe Analytics tool should I use?.
| Product Name & Help Link | Analysis Workspace | Report Builder | Data Warehouse | Data Feeds | Analytics API 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Access method | Browser | MS Excel for Windows | Setup through the browser. Learn more | Setup through the browser. Learn more | RESTful API tools. Login with Adobe Developer credentials. Learn more |
| Data granularity | Aggregated | Aggregated | Aggregated | Hit | Aggregated |
| Experience Cloud ID (ECID) available | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Timestamp available | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| Level of processing | Fully-processed | Fully-processed, with separate real-time report | Fully-processed | Fully-processed | Fully-processed |
| Admin bot filter data included Learn more | No | Yes - separate bot report | No | No | No |
| Low traffic (Uniques exceeded) appears Learn more | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Visible row limit (before pagination) | 400 | 50000 | Unlimited | Unlimited | 50000 |
| Multiple report suites | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Number of breakdowns | Unlimited | Up to 2 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited, run across multiple queries |
| Segmentation Learn more | Yes | Yes | Yes, with limitations | No | Yes |
| Calculated metrics Learn more | Yes, with Attribution | Yes, with Attribution | Yes | No | Yes, with Attribution |
| Marketing Channels Learn more | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes - va_finder, va_closer | Yes |
| Cohort analysis | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Attribution | Yes, with Attribution | Limited | No | No | Yes, with Attribution |
| Curation Learn more | Yes - Project and Virtual report suite | No | No | No | Yes - Virtual report suite only |
| Project sharing Learn more | Yes, with project roles | Yes | No | No | No |
| Scheduled delivery | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Delivery destinations | Email, FTP, SFTP, publishing to Microsoft PowerBI | Amazon S3, Google Cloud Platform, Azure SAS, Azure RBAC, and Email | Amazon S3, Azure RBAC, Azure SAS, and Google Cloud Platform | - | |
| Virtual report suite report time processing Learn more | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
Analytics
- Analytics Tools Guide
- Analytics Release Notes
- Get started with Adobe Analytics
- Landing page
- Analysis Workspace
- Analysis Workspace overview
- Projects
- Templates
- Components
- Visualizations
- Visualizations overview
- Manage data sources
- Freeform table
- Cohort Table
- Fallout
- Flow
- Area and area stacked
- Bar and bar stacked
- Bullet graph
- Combo chart
- Donut
- Histogram
- Horizontal Bar and Horizontal Bar Stacked
- Key metric summary
- Line
- Map
- Scatterplot
- Section header
- Summary Number and Summary Change
- Text
- Tree map
- Venn
- Panels
- Curate, Share, and Schedule projects
- Attribution
- Journey IQ
- Segment IQ
- Anomaly Detection
- User preferences
- Workspace FAQs
- Report Builder
- Legacy Report Builder
- Legacy Adobe Report Builder help
- Legacy Report Builder setup
- Report Builder toolbar
- Data requests
- Data requests - Request Wizard Step 1
- Create a data request
- Report suites
- Manage segments
- Report types
- Import bookmarked reports and dashboard reportlets
- Date ranges
- Interactive controls
- Layout - Request Wizard Step 2
- Layout overview
- Metrics and dimensions
- Anomaly Detection
- Configure an anomaly detection request
- Format the date
- Format display headers
- Hide or show headers
- Delete output mapping
- Name a request
- Prepend and postpend text to cells
- Configure the custom layout
- Map metrics and dimensions to cells
- Create a microchart
- Filter dimensions
- Manage requests
- Manage requests - definitions
- Diagnostic messages
- Sort ascending or descending
- Protected worksheet elements
- Edit multiple requests
- Edit metrics across multiple requests
- Refresh a request
- Refresh requests for all sheets
- Add dependent requests
- Classification
- Copy requests
- Save a workbook with requests
- Specify conditional formatting
- Offline mode for creating and editing requests
- Report Builder options
- Schedule report requests
- Schedule a workbook
- Scheduled Task Manager
- Workbook Library
- Publish to Power BI with Report Builder 5.5
- Visual Basic macros
- Report Builder troubleshooting
- Report Builder FAQ
- Activity Map
- Adobe Analytics dashboards
- Labs