1. VitalSource Customer Success
  2. Analytics and Insights
  3. Publisher Reporting

Explore Insights Dashboard

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Brook Mecham
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Purpose

Provide a snapshot view to publishers of their subscriptions and their usage.

Dashboard Notes

  • Filters on this dashboard have different use cases (see Usage Notes below)

Definition of filters

Filter Name Description
 Usage Notes

Institution
Name of the institution (Mange Company name)

Using this filter will update dashboard tiles:

  • Top 5 Titles in Active Subscriptions (by User Count)
  • Unused Titles in Active Subscriptions
  • Unique Users by Subscription
  • Month-over-Month Unique Users by Subscription
  • Month-over-Month Page Views by Subscription
Subscription ID Subscription VBID, Asset VBID (for single title sales), or Transaction ID (for Marketplace transactions)

Using this filter will update dashboard tiles:

  • Top 5 Titles in Active Subscriptions (by User Count)
  • Unused Titles in Active Subscriptions
  • Unique Users by Subscription
  • Month-over-Month Unique Users by Subscription
  • Month-over-Month Page Views by Subscript
Institution Country County the institution is located (2-character code) Using this filter will update all titles on the dashboard
Subscription Owner Name of the company that owns the subscription (Manage Company Name) Using this filter will update all titles on the dashboard
Asset Publisher Publisher of the asset (Manage company name) Using this filter will update all titles on the dashboard

 

Definition of tiles

🔵 Tiles will be numbered in the chart below. Numbering is based on navigation from top to bottom, left to right.

 

✅ Interactive Tiles are available with this dashboard.

  • For count tiles, click on the count. A pop-up will appear with the related data-set. This data-set can be downloaded.
  • For interactive data-set tiles, hover over the tile to reveal the three dots (Tile actions) to download all results related to that data-set.

 

  Tile Name Description
1 Active Subscriptions Count of currently active subscriptions, with no renewal pending in the next 12 months.
2 Subscriptions with At-Risk Assets Provides a sub-set count of active subscriptions, where at least 1 asset is holding an Asset Availability Status of “Limited Distribution” or “Out of Distribution”
3 Page Views by Country (Year-to-Date) A world heatmap showing total pages viewed by country for the current year (to-date). Page views are calculated based on the institution's country of origin.
4 Page Views by Institution (Year-to-Date) A pie chart showing page views by the institution for the current year (to-date).
5 Subscriptions Expiring in Next 12 Months

Count of active subscriptions that have an end date within the next 12 months.

This is a cumulative count and includes the subscriptions in the next tile.
6 Subscriptions Expiring in Next 6 Months

Count of active subscriptions that have an end date within the next six months.

📄 This is a cumulative count and includes the subscriptions in the next tile.
7 Subscriptions Expiring in Next 3 Months Count of active subscriptions that have an end date within the next three months.
8 Count of Subscriptions by Start Month A bar chart showing the count of subscriptions by their start date for the past 12 months.
9 Top 5 Assets in Active Subscriptions (by User Count)

A list of the top 5 titles that are in active subscriptions based on the unique user count for the asset.

📄 The unique user count is recalculated as data flows in and could result in changes to the Top 5 over time.
10
 Unused Assets in Active Subscriptions

A list of titles that are in active subscriptions that have not had any users or page views to-date.

📄 The unique user count and page views is recalculated as data flows in and could result in changes to unused assets throughout the duration of a subscription.
11 Unique Users by Subscription A chart showing the count of users broken down by each subscription.
12 Month-over-Month Unique Users by Subscription A chart showing the month-over-month count of users by each subscription for the past 12 months.
13 Month-over-Month Page Views by Subscription A chart showing the month-over-month count of total page views by each subscription for the past 12 months.

 

Definition of fields

🔵 All fields on dashboard are included here, in alphabetical order.

 

Field Name Description
Asset Author(s) The name of the author(s) of the asset
Asset Edition Edition of the asset
Asset Item Name Name of the asset
Asset VBID Manage VBID of the asset
Subscription ID Subscription VBID, Asset VBID (for single title sales), or Transaction ID (for Marketplace transactions)
Engaged Students (Unique) Number of unique users that have engaged with and activated an asset
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