Data centers: Manage and administer data

PREREQUISITES: To access the Administration dashboard, you need to be either a Sitefinity Insight account admin or a data center admin. For more information, see Manage users in data centers and accounts.

The Administration dashboard of Sitefinity Insight enables you, as an administrator, to manage your account and its data centers and maintain the system. You can also invite users who need to activate their accounts to access and use all of the content and reports of both the Administration and Analytics dashboard.

As an administrator of Sitefinity Insight, you can:

  • Create and delete data centers
  • Create and delete sample data centers
  • Generate access keys to set a connection to the Sitefinity Insight connector in Sitefinity CMS
  • Connect to data from data sources other than Sitefinity CMS and import data
  • Invite new users to Sitefinity Insight and manage their permissions

The Administration dashboard has the following sections to help you monitor and manage your system:

  • Account overview
    Get a summary of your account usage, that is, all your activities. The numbers are totals, for example, total visitors for all data centers in this account.

  • Visitors quota
    Displays a chart of how many visitors have been tracked in Sitefinity Insight. To learn how to delete visitors’ data that you do not need anymore and avoid exceeding your quota, click How to delete visitors.

  • Access & Security

    PREREQUISITES: You see the Access & Security section only when you are logged as Account administrator.

  • Data centers
    Lists of all data centers in your account.

  • Sample data centers
    Lists of all sample data centers in your account.

This section contains

Data centers and data sources
Understand the relation between data centers and data sources and what properties identify each of them.
Data integration
Understand concepts and workflow of data integration and import configuration, so you get insights and reports for exactly what marketers need.
Configure contact properties
Get a complete overview of contacts background and behavioral data. Configure which contact properties to display and add custom properties.
Generate sample data and reports
Create a demo data center and populate it with sample data to explore the features, types of reports, and how data and metrics influence marketing goals.
Data quotas
Sitefinity Insight enforces quotas on visitors’ data to prevent abuse, accidental usage, and protect you. This page explains the limitations and how to address them.
Manage personally identifiable information
Sitefinity administrators can manage which accounts have access to personally identifiable information
Personal data collected, processed, and stored by Sitefinity Insight
This page describes the personally identifiable information (as described by laws) collected and processed by Sitefinity Insight
Topics
Sitefinity Insight generates segments based on your visitors’ activity. You use Topics tab to exclude words from the auto generated segments and personas