Thanks for pushing this, everyone. The Discover (Ad hoc analysis)
segment builder now allows you to build segments based on sequence.
These blog posts explain how to use
it:http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalmarketing/analytics/discover-3-2-sequential-segmentation-primer/http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalmarketing/analytics/discovers-improved-segment-builder/While
the ability to "build" segments is limited to Ad hoc analyis, once those
segments are shared, they are visible to everyone in Marketing Report...
Starting on Tuesday, 8 November 2011, the term "Keyword Unavailable"
will appear in keywords reports, and this traffic will be identified as
Natural Search traffic in Referrer Types, Search Engines and Marketing
Channel reports.
Items 2 and 3 are available in SiteCatalyst 15. Admins can set default
metrics per report. Item number 1 is under consideration. Thanks for
submitting!
I believe this problem is solved with SiteCatalyst 15. Your concern
about latency and implementation complexity are resolved, and all
conversion reports are subrelated to all others. Good news, eh?