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What you need to know

  • Eloqua users have access to Eloqua Dashboards. These dashboards are designed for the Eloqua Users and are generated from Insight Analytics data. These dashboards are easily accessible and can be adjusted by applying date filters and campaign fields, such as Campaign Type, Region, and Product. Insight Dashboards are separate, fully customisable and are accessed from within Insight.
  • Access to Eloqua Insight is available as two user types. 1 – Reporter and 2. Analyzer. The key difference is that the Analyzer user can create custom reports and dashboards. It’s quite normal that the majority of Eloqua users are Reporter users. BI team members and those a little more tech-savvy are typically Analyzer users.
  • Insight delivers a wide range of analytical data from your Eloqua instance. Insight is a separate platform from Eloqua. However, you have seamless access from within Eloqua. Insight is built on Oracle Analytics Server, part of Oracle Analytics Cloud.

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If you’d like help with any of the aspects covered in this blog post, please get in touch with Marketing Cube Support or email Derek directly.

What can you expect from Oracle Eloqua Insight analytics?

With over 250 out-of-the-box reports, Insight empowers Eloqua users to delve into the details quickly. When you access Eloqua Dashboards or reports from various areas of Eloqua, such as the Campaign Canvas or the Design editors, it’s Insight data that drives what you see.

Metrics & Attributes

To help you create the report you need, it is essential to understand the roles of Attributes and Metrics in your report building process. To start with, Attributes 
are characteristics of your Oracle Eloqua data. Metrics are qualitative measures of the attributes.

When combined in a report, City is a row and Total Clickthroughs a column. Thus, you can learn about the clickthroughs by city. Attributes and metrics that can be combined are provided in a Subject Area*.

Insight Metrics

  • Campaign activities
  • Campaign rates
  • SMS activities
  • SMS rates
  • SMS phone numbers
  • Email activities
  • Email rates
  • Form activities
  • Form rates
  • Landing page activities
  • Web activities
  • Web rates
  • Agent usage (Not AI)
  • All activities

Insight Attributes

  • Contact fields
  • Campaign fields

Eloqua Dashboards vs. Insight Dashboards

The Eloqua Dashboards are available to all Eloqua users and are presented in an easy-to-use manner, allowing you to adjust certain variables. You can adjust date ranges and, if you’ve configured Campaign Fields, filter and modify the dashboards using the values assigned to Campaign Type, Product, and Region.

Eloqua Dashboards use Insight data. The key point is to understand that you don’t have multiple sources of analytical data; Insight is the single source and populates your Eloqua and Insight Dashboards.

Insight Dashboards” are viewed in Insight and are completely configurable based on your specific requirements. Insight allows you to create custom reports (the focus of this month’s user group) and custom dashboards.

Our #1 tip for marketers creating custom Insight reports

Most of us are not experts in Business Intelligence (BI). If you have access to a BI expert in your workplace, you should take them for a coffee and get to know them. 

Since Eloqua first arrived as a software platform in January 1999, they have led the marketing automation market for B2B or high-value marketers. Over that period, Eloqua has developed a deep understanding of the expectations and needs of marketers in relation to reporting.

Our #1 tip for marketers when it comes to reporting is to avoid starting from scratch. Find one of the more than 250 out-of-the-box reports, a report that almost gives you what you need. 

Then, save-as that report and begin the process of customising it to reflect your needs. If you access this month’s webinar replay, I’ll walk you through the save-as process and provide some navigational tips to help you get the result you need.

*Subject Area: You can see the Attributes and Metrics fall under a Subject Area in the screenshot below.

In this screen grab of Insight, you can see three main sections covered under the Results tab. On the left (highlighted), you have Subject Areas, which is where you access the Attributes and Metrics for your report. In the centre of the screen, split in half – top & bottom, is where you build the report. You can delete columns you don’t want. You can drag in new columns from the Subject Area. The Layout section is where you do all the work; the area above is a Preview of your report, allowing you to see exactly what your final report will look like.

Which are the most common Insight reports?

Each of these reports can be easily accessed from the Insight Catalog.

  • Agent Usage Overview report
  • Campaign Analysis Overview report
  • Dynamic Content by Campaign report
  • Dynamic Content by Email report
  • Email Analysis Overview report
  • Email Analysis Overview by Segment report
  • SMS Usage Overview report
  • Email Bounceback History with Messages report
  • Email Bounceback Overview report
  • Email Clickthrough Link Breakdown report
  • Form Submission Data report
  • Form Submission Overview report
  • Sales Email Overview report
  • SMS Phone Number Analysis report
  • SMS Usage Overview report
  • Spam Unsubscribe report
  • Website Overview report
  • Website Visitors by Webpage report
  • Agent Usage Overview report
  • Campaign Analysis Overview report
  • Dynamic Content by Campaign report
  • Dynamic Content by Email report
  • Email Analysis Overview report
  • Email Analysis Overview by Segment report
  • SMS Usage Overview report
  • Email Bounceback History with Messages report
  • Email Bounceback Overview report
  • Email Clickthrough Link Breakdown report
  • Form Submission Data report
  • Form Submission Overview report
  • Sales Email Overview report
  • SMS Phone Number Analysis report
  • SMS Usage Overview report
  • Spam Unsubscribe report
  • Website Overview report
  • Website Visitors by Webpage report

Moving beyond Reports to Dashboards

As you become more familiar with reports and the level of detail available, the idea of a dashboard becomes increasingly appealing. Any member of your team can access Insight Dashboards without incurring additional licence costs, not just Eloqua users. 

If you’re unsure, please don’t hesitate to contact our Support Team for guidance.

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Derek Bell Director of Customer Success & Marketing
Derek is a Marketing Technologist. He's spent 26 years understanding how technology can help organisations engage prospects and customers, with a focus on Oracle Eloqua marketing automation. As our Marketing and Customer Success Director, Derek engages directly with our marketing automation clients to help them get the most out of their platform of choice.