Analytics and Insights

Overview

Alma Analytics transforms a broad range of library data into actionable reports and identifiable trends for data driven decision making.

Roadmap

2024 H2	2025 H1	2025 H2
Enhanced User Experience: Admin Global "Pin to Menu" and Sharing Analytics Objects with Roles – Role Selection Component More Granular Design Analytics Roles – Users and Administrative Data Support Connectivity with Tableau Web Connector 3.0 Collection Development: Consortia Central Shared Print Office Insight Dashboard Compliance with COUNTER 5.1 in Usage (COUNTER) and E-Inventory Subject Areas	Enhanced User Experience: Analytics Notifications and "Send now" One Time Share Functionality Network Zone Member Out of the Box Electronic Resources Cost Per Use Report E-Resource Overview: Insight Dashboard Additional Fields to Support Transformative Agreements	Collection Development Books – DEI Assessment Insight Dashboard Serials Retention Insight Dashboard (Institutional Level) Serials Deselection Insight Dashboard (Institutional Level) Acquisition Overview: Out-of-the-Box Insight Dashboard Network Zone Enhanced User Experience: Sharing Objects With Members

2024 H2

Enhanced User Experience: Admin Global "Pin to Menu" and Sharing Objects with Roles – Role Selection Component

What’s New

Highlights

Impact

When roles are selected for an analytics object, sharing a new object will allow for a more orderly and categorized workflow.

Administrators can pin globally or have users pin for themselves.
Once pinned, each user can unpin if they want.
Designated component for role selection based on categories and an improved selection interface.

Additional support capabilities added to Analytics administrators for easy and flexible analytics object sharing.

More information allowing more control and a clearer workflow for selecting roles.

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More Granular Design Analytics Roles – Users and Administrative Data

What’s New	Highlights	Impact
Enhanced granularity will be introduced to the new Analytics Designer roles, allowing for the separation of users and administrative data into distinct roles.	Restricted design roles enabling limited subject areas based on the type of role selected Design role type can be configured by administrators Users and administrative data separated as separate additional roles	This enhancement empowers more precise control over private data.

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Support Connectivity with Tableau Web Connector 3.0

What’s New	Highlights	Impact
A Library Analytics connector will be available for integration with Tableau Web Connector 3.0, enabling Library Analytics to be accessible in Tableau.	Open Source Simple integration Relevant to institutions that use Tableau and are looking for ways to integrate various data sources	Streamlining Analytics work and integrations to empower data driven decision making.

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Collection Development: Consortia Central Office Shared Print Insight Dashboard

What’s New	Highlights	Impact
An out-of-the-box insight* dashboard focusing on identifying single copies based on various criteria to support deselection ("weeding") in the consortia level. This dashboard is one of several dashboards designed to support collection development. *Insight Dashboards are built with Oracle Data Visualization.	Out-of-the-box data visualization project. Useful insights to help consortia identify potential physical inventory for retention and space reclamation.	Enables consortia an overview of the collections held by their members for efficient collection management at the consortia level.

What’s New

Highlights

Impact

An out-of-the-box insight* dashboard focusing on identifying single copies based on various criteria to support deselection ("weeding") in the consortia level. This dashboard is one of several dashboards designed to support collection development.

*Insight Dashboards are built with Oracle Data Visualization.

Out-of-the-box data visualization project.
Useful insights to help consortia identify potential physical inventory for retention and space reclamation.

Enables consortia an overview of the collections held by their members for efficient collection management at the consortia level.

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Compliance with COUNTER 5.1 in Usage (COUNTER) and E-Inventory Subject Areas

What’s New	Highlights	Impact
Following the recent 5.1 COUNTER publication, COUNTER data will be adjusted to meet the latest updates in the Usage (COUNTER) and E-Inventory subject areas.	Compliance with the latest COUNTER release	Enables institutions to compare and analyze usage data effectively according to the latest COUNTER data release.

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2025 H1

Enhanced User Experience: Analytics Notifications and "Send Now" One Time Share Functionality

What’s New

Highlights

Impact

A new feature will be added to the library platform allowing users to get notified when a new analytics object was shared with them or pinned to their menu by their Analytics administrator.

Analytics Administrators can send an analytics object to their colleagues on a one-time basis.

Simple and uninstructive notifications to notify users when they have a new analytics object in their analytics object list or new link in the analytics menu.
"Send now" is an addition to the improved flexible scheduling feature, allowing one-time sharing rather than recurring sharing.
Internal users and external emails can be selected for one-time sending.
PDF/ Excel or deep link sharing depending on recipient and analytics type.

Enable seamless and efficient communication and collaboration between Analytics administrators and their colleagues.

Easy, flexible, and intuitive options for sharing analytics with colleagues.

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Network Zone Member Out-of-the-Box Electronic Resources Cost Per Use Report

What’s New	Highlights	Impact
An out-of-the-box insight report providing cost per use both for E- resources purchased by the institution and the network zone.	E-Resource Cost per use evaluation regardless of who purchased the resource One single view for all member E-Resources	Consolidating all E-resources enables greater efficiency and a sharper focus on resource value due to their usage.

What’s New

Highlights

Impact

An out-of-the-box insight report providing cost per use both for E- resources purchased by the institution and the network zone.

E-Resource Cost per use evaluation regardless of who purchased the resource
One single view for all member E-Resources

Consolidating all E-resources enables greater efficiency and a sharper focus on resource value due to their usage.

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E-Resource Overview: Insight Dashboard

What’s New	Highlights	Impact
An out-of-the-box insight* dashboard providing an overview of E-Resource activity. *Insight Dashboards are built with Oracle Data Visualization.	Out-of-the-box data visualization project Visualize information such as availability and usage of electronic resources	Providing e-resource librarians an overview of the resource activity to enable them to meet their KPIs and increase efficiency.

What’s New

Highlights

Impact

An out-of-the-box insight* dashboard providing an overview of E-Resource activity.

*Insight Dashboards are built with Oracle Data Visualization.

Out-of-the-box data visualization project
Visualize information such as availability and usage of electronic resources

Providing e-resource librarians an overview of the resource activity to enable them to meet their KPIs and increase efficiency.

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Additional Fields to Support Transformative Agreements

What’s New	Highlights	Impact
Provide libraries with insights about cost per use and APC to inform transformative negotiations with publishers.	Reports of cost per use for Open Access content	Insights will assist institutions to manage their Open Access process and better prepare for the next negotiation with the publisher.

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2025 H2

Collection Development: Books – DEI Assessment Insight Dashboard

What’s New	Highlights	Impact
An out-of-the-box insight* dashboard focusing on identifying DEI gaps in library collections from various perspectives, addressed by the community. *Insight Dashboards are built with Oracle Data Visualization.	Out-of-the-box data visualization project Identifying DEI gaps for more balanced and diverse collections	Enables institutions to make sure their collections are inclusive, diverse, and balanced.

What’s New

Highlights

Impact

An out-of-the-box insight* dashboard focusing on identifying DEI gaps in library collections from various perspectives, addressed by the community.

*Insight Dashboards are built with Oracle Data Visualization.

Out-of-the-box data visualization project
Identifying DEI gaps for more balanced and diverse collections

Enables institutions to make sure their collections are inclusive, diverse, and balanced.

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Collection Development: Serials Retention Insight Dashboard (Institutional Level)

What’s New	Highlights	Impact
An out-of-the-box insight* dashboard focusing on identifying serial last copies based on various criteria and support rentention decisions. This dashboard is one of several dashboards designed to support collection development. *Insight Dashboards are built with Oracle Data Visualization.	Out-of-the-box data visualization project. Useful insights on the institution's physical inventory, their retention status, and more to support decisions regarding retention.	Enables institutions to identify items for retention taking into account various factors and enabling data driven decisions regarding the complex area of collection development.

What’s New

Highlights

Impact

An out-of-the-box insight* dashboard focusing on identifying serial last copies based on various criteria and support rentention decisions. This dashboard is one of several dashboards designed to support collection development.

*Insight Dashboards are built with Oracle Data Visualization.

Out-of-the-box data visualization project.
Useful insights on the institution's physical inventory, their retention status, and more to support decisions regarding retention.

Enables institutions to identify items for retention taking into account various factors and enabling data driven decisions regarding the complex area of collection development.

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Collection Development: Serials Deselection Insight Dashboard (Institutional Level)

What’s New	Highlights	Impact
An out-of-the-box insight* dashboard focusing on identifying serial last copies based on various criteria and support deselection ("weeding"). This dashboard is one of several dashboards designed to support collection development. *Insight Dashboards are built with Oracle Data Visualization.	Out-of-the-box data visualization project Useful insights to help institutions identify potential physical inventory for weeding and space reclamation.	Enables institutions to identify items for deselection taking into account various factors and enabling data driven decisions regarding the complex area of collection development.

What’s New

Highlights

Impact

An out-of-the-box insight* dashboard focusing on identifying serial last copies based on various criteria and support deselection ("weeding"). This dashboard is one of several dashboards designed to support collection development.

*Insight Dashboards are built with Oracle Data Visualization.

Out-of-the-box data visualization project
Useful insights to help institutions identify potential physical inventory for weeding and space reclamation.

Enables institutions to identify items for deselection taking into account various factors and enabling data driven decisions regarding the complex area of collection development.

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Acquisition Overview: Out-of-the-Box Insight Dashboard

What’s New	Highlights	Impact
An out-of-the-box insight* dashboard offering institutions an overview and insights regarding their acquisitions activity. *Insight Dashboards are built with Oracle Data Visualization.	Out-of-the-box data visualization project Insights on acquisition activity and its usage	Enables institutions to review and make data driven decisions regarding their acquisitions.

What’s New

Highlights

Impact

An out-of-the-box insight* dashboard offering institutions an overview and insights regarding their acquisitions activity.

*Insight Dashboards are built with Oracle Data Visualization.

Out-of-the-box data visualization project
Insights on acquisition activity and its usage

Enables institutions to review and make data driven decisions regarding their acquisitions.

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Network Zone Enhanced User Experience: Sharing Objects With Members

What’s New	Highlights	Impact
Analytics network administrators can share analytics objects with all or a selected group of members in a simple action.	Analytics Objects created by the consortia office can easily be shared with the member analytics administrators Member will receive seamlessly objects created and shared by their main office colleague One workflow to share with several members	Increasing ease of collaboration between the network main office and the network members by enabling a seamless and simple sharing workflow.

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