Telerik Analytics What kind of Analytics is Application Analytics?  November 6 th, 2015  Eigil Rosager Poulsen – Telerik 

© 2015 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved. 2 A few words about me  Eigil Rosager Poulsen  M.Sc. Computer Science  Founded EQATEC – that created EQATEC Analytics  Telerik acquired EQATEC in Feb 2013  Product manager for Telerik Analytics  Live in Copenhagen  I need to catch a ferry tonight, so you’ll see me running at 17:00

© 2015 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved. 3 A few questions to the audience  How many are active programmers?  How many do OE/ABL development?  How many have received direct feedback from your end-users this week?  How many have received direct feedback from your end-users this year?

© 2015 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved. 4 What is Analytics?

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© 2015 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved. 12 What is “application analytics”? Introduction through the history of Telerik Analytics

© 2015 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved. 13 EQATEC: our problem back in 2008 Did our users like the product? Limited information sources:  Support questions  The occasional “fan” Basically we knew nothing – so what to do?

© 2015 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved : application analytics v. 0.1  Red: usage (app execution)  Blue: downloads  Yellow: registrations  “F5 addictiveness”  Little information but much better than nothing

© 2015 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved : A new analytics market?  Nov 2005: Google Analytics  Very few did application analytics for thick clients  So we decided to fill the gap

© 2015 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved. 16 Feb 2013 – Telerik acquires EQATEC

© 2015 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved : Telerik Analytics today  HTML5  Kendo UI controls

© 2015 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved. 18 Dec 2014 – Progress acquires Telerik

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© 2015 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved. 20 PDSOE & Telerik Analytics  May 2015  October 2015

© 2015 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved. 21 PDSOE & Telerik Analytics

© 2015 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved. 22 PDSOE & Telerik Analytics

© 2015 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved. 23 Telerik Analytics – deep(er) dive Code examples, data formats and more

© 2015 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved. 24 How does it work?

© 2015 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved. 25 Development Platforms Supported - Monitors Application types: Mobile (native, hybrid, web) Desktop Web Implementations: C++ C# Java JavaScript API Uniform for all platforms Small footprint and very low performance impact Supports off-line data collection

© 2015 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved. 26 How to integrate the monitor in a C# app

© 2015 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved. 27 Data on the wire

© 2015 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved. 28 Examples of default monitor data collected

© 2015 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved. 29 Tracking custom metrics – Feature Usage

© 2015 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved. 30 Tracking custom metrics – Feature Timing End of method “MainForm_shown”

© 2015 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved. 31 Tracking exceptions

© 2015 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved. 32 Session details

© 2015 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved. 33 Time for a demo

© 2015 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved. 34 Ask yourself a few question…  What do you personally know about your end-users and customers?  Facts?  Second-hand information?  Gut-feelings?

© 2015 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved. 36 Customer Case Study One of the World’s leading hearing aid manufacturer Monitoring 93,000 hearing clinic PC apps Before Telerik Analytics  Planned to reimplement a 75 man year legacy application With Telerik Analytics  Exact feature usage measurements uncovered that 25% of application was very seldom used Result:  25% of a 75 man year project eliminated  $3.4 million (US) in savings

© 2015 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved. 37 Modernization – two questions How to modernize?  EMEAPUG Challenge 2015 hopefully has provided you with many good suggestions and shared experience. What to modernize?  Everything? Probably quite expensive…  Which parts then?  Use Telerik Analytics to measure what is most used  Start with those parts

© 2015 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved. 38 How can you try Analytics?

© 2015 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved. 39 For those developing in ABL  We currently consider to support OE/ABL with Analytics – if you are interested then please let us know! 

© 2015 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved. 40 For those developing in Java, C++, C#, JavaScript, etc  Go to  Click Telerik Platform  Sign up to a free trail  Or simply write to and ask for a Telerik Analytics trial

© 2015 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved. 41 Questions!

© 2015 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved. 42 Thank you for your attention! Reach out to me: