This is a screen capture of a report generated in Omniture v13.5.  I'm not sure how I caught this.  The last item in the graph legend is orange, while it is brown in the summary.  On the actual graph, the item was orange.

BTW - When will Omniture provide greater graphing capability?  I really liked the introduction of bar graphs in v14.  And I have to say, unless I need a bar graph, I still use v13.5.

Ominous-ture

A bad feeling that Omniture is losing sight of it's customers basic needs.

Of, the feeling you get knowing the "this document contains no data" error is about to pop-up.

Ok, my teammates would probably refer to my mood right now as "snarky". 

So I've been using the new Omniture Suite for about a week.  I haven't been won back yet.

 More belly-aches:

• Setting up date range comparison reports is still confusing and utterly cumbersome.
• You can't use the previous/next page table from page summary reports in dashboards.  I made the mistake of updating an Omniture 13.5 dashboard to Omniture Suite which previously had a handful of these reportlets.  I spent a good portion of an afternoon rebuilding this report in Omniture 13.5.
• Although I thoroughly enjoy the new way of moving reportlets within dashboards, I would love to see this idea combined with the "small view" that the edit dashboard feature used to bring up.
• Why aren't date range comparison reports set to sort by the most recent date range by default?
• I'm not convinced that the new email windows are easier to use.
• I found out that my looooong list of dashboards sometimes dissappears beneath the footer on short pages and reappears below it.
• It would be great to customize how many and what report suites appear in the report suite drop-down.
• It seems that I don't have campaign administration access like I do in Omniture 13.5.
• Omniture tries very hard to get their new releases out in time for their summits, but it would serve their customers better if they waited or at least stuck the "beta" tag on the release.

I know of many Omniture users who have decided to stick with Omniture 13.5 until the bugs are worked out.  It looks like I'll be joining their camp.  If Omniture gets these issues resolved they'll be back on track to winning me back, but until then it's back to Omniture 13.5 with me.

Today I finally decided to make the upgrade from Omniture 13.5 to Omniture 14, AKA Omniture Suite.  I have to say, they may have won me back.  For a while there I was getting quite annoyed with them being called the leading web analytics vendor when they were taking soooo long to add much needed web 2.0 features (not to mention statistically correct graphs).

Here are some of the wonderful things I've found in my first day in the Omniture Suite, specifically in SiteCatalyst:

• Bar graphs!  No more explaining line graphs for monthly data.
• The date range selector now shows three months instead of one.
• Twelve month calendar view.
• Drag-n-drop reportlets quickly.
• Being able to update dashboards to the Omniture Suite one at a time.
• Type and search feature for finding report suites.  For a while there I didn't realize I could type in that area and thought I had lost access to many of my report suites.
  
• My lengthy list of dashboards doesn't disappear when my mouse moves away from the list.
• I like the dashboards and bookmarks at the top, but I would rather the bookmark folders be in a drop down list similar to before.
  

Of course, there are some things that befuddle me (hopefully just due to the learning curve):

• Changing the date range resets the graph view to by day.
• The calendar is a bit slow when scrolling through months.
• The date range selector is confusing on dashboards.  I still can't figure out how to display the dashboard from a specific date like I used to be able to.  Maybe it's that whole "You may need to reformat you dashboards after updating" bug.
• No feature to update all dashboards to the Omniture Suite at once.
  
• Dashboard reportlets setup for last month still don't say what month it was.  This is annoying when you send out automated dashboards and recipients ask you what month last month is in the report.
  

After having spent the day compiling these lists while I worked, I'm beginning to wonder if they really have won me back.  There's always room for improvement.  I'll have to update my feelings over the course of the next few months with the new Omniture Suite.

I ran across something very interesting while poking around Google Analytics Map Overlay report last night.  If you display the Map Overlay by continent, you'll be very surprised to find out that Google wants you to believe there are only six continents:  the Americas, Europe (which contains Russia?), Africa, Asia (which should contain Russia), and Oceania (which is apparently Australia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceania).  And, of course, they left out Antarctica, which is probably fine.  But there probably is internet access in Antarctica, so why leave the researchers out?  I was never aware of this, but there are different views on how many continents there are - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent#Number_of_continents.  However, in all of these, Russia is always part of Asia.  And as for the use of Oceania, according to Wikipedia, "The names Oceania or Australasia are sometimes used in place of Australia. For example, the Atlas of Canada names Oceania,^[10] as does the model taught in Latin America and Iberia."

Any ideas on why they're confused?