No More Roll-up Report Suites?

[cameron_tarle]

Hi all, 

Understanding the limitations of roll-up report suites, we still want to make one in our organization. Are they no longer available though? Most information about this aggregate report suite is almost 10 years old, and my personal UI does not seem to have the "create roll-up report suite" button, despite having credentials that should allow me to do so. Is this something that becomes available after creating a report suite group, or has adobe dropped this feature quietly that was never a best practice in the first place?

Thanks!

[Jennifer_Dungan]

The documentation for "Roll Up Suites" seems to be gone, following the links inside the Adobe site actually just takes me to a page that talks about Global Suites... 

I assume it's been dropped, since they weren't great to start with... and with the ability to do Global Suites with Virtual Suite breakdowns, I sort of get it... except, it can be a huge leap for customers to take to re-tag their sites as a Global Suite... 

[MandyGeorge]

No, roll-up report suites are no longer a thing that exist. They went away a little while ago. Instead, Adobe recommends sending everything to a Global report suite and then splitting stuff up with VRS's and segments as needed.

That's the reason there isn't any recent documentation anymore, because they're no longer an option.

[MandyGeorge · Accepted solution]

Adding on, found some documentation here 

 https://new.express.adobe.com/webpage/WFCyq7w8kijmB 

Within the EOL notice for Reports & Analytics, there is one tiny mention about EOL for roll up report suites too (you have to scroll way down to find it). 

[Jennifer_Dungan]

Lol, yeah, that was a pretty quiet sunset...  I know that Adobe has recommended Global Suites over Roll-Ups for years... it's not surprising that they were killed off... I haven't used a roll-up in about 15 years....  and even then, I barely used them since the data was so limited.

[NidhiSh7]

Hii Jennifer, Opening up the chain again as comes up the requirement for us where the report suites for 15 markets are different but they have a global tracking structure. What is the best way to showcase the overall performance of all markets at one place? PowerBI seems to be an option, is there something else within Adobe which could be utilized? Thanks!

[Jennifer_Dungan]

Hi @NidhiSh7,

you are right, you will have to take the data out of Adobe to do this (PowerBI, Adobe Report Builder + Excel, Data Warehouse + Excel/Database/etc, or any number of options)... but you also need to be aware of the potential for inflation...

The same user who went to suite A, B and G would be counted 3 times... if the user went to all of those sites in the same visit, then your Visit will be counted 3 times...  I believe rollups had similar issues, I am not sure if there was any backend magic from Adobe to deal with that... I suspect not, since rollups were before the Visitor ID service, and all user identification was per site.

Me personally, when I do have to pull data from multiple suites (stuff that isn't in the global suite), I use Report Builder... I can pull in raw data from the various suites, then use Excel formulas to combine the data together. I always make a note about the potential inflation in reports like these.

If all the sites are using the same tagging... you might want to consider a project to convert to a global tracking suite, but I know... there will be pain for a while as historical data will need to be pulled from the individual suites and new data from the global (and site specific virtual suites).... that is ultimately up to you.