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20% Discrepancy in Raw Data vs Adobe Reports

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Hi, on average Im seeing a 20-27% difference when re-running year over year reports. For example, when I ran a report in May of 2017 Adobe said I had 100,000 visitors, however when I RE-RAN the month of May 2017 in May of 2018, it said I had 80,000 visitors in May 2017. This discrepancy is across all major metrics, for EVERY month.

Additionally, I've noticed that when using Ad Hoc Analysis (which I know is raw numbers) its showing a discrepancy of about 20% between its numbers and the numbers shown in Reports.

20% seems like a huge difference, can anyone explain this? What goes into Adobe's "Continual Processing" and how could it be off by so much in each different view? Where do the other numbers go? This is extremely problematic to the numbers our company is reporting.

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