Year in review 2017 edition

A look back into Countly Plugins introduced in 2017 and a sneak peek into what's next in our roadmap

17.09

Behavioural Cohorts

Create dynamic application user groups based on user behaviour such as whether the user performed/didn’t perform a custom event or a series of custom events with certain segmentation values in a given time frame (or any/all time). Use cohorts to filter out any other report such as retention, funnels and user profiles.

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17.09

Crash Symbolication

Pinpoint where the crash is originating from in your code using Countly crash symbolication for iOS and de-obfuscation for Android (supporting both DexGuard and ProGuard).

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17.09

Alerts

Define conditions on your application's session, custom event, crash analytics related metrics and receive email notifications when the conditions are met.

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17.09

User Groups

Create dashboard user groups with specific application and reporting access rights and assign individual users into these groups to make right management easier.

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17.09

Push Approver

Dedicate certain dashboard users as push approvers so that whenever a new push notification campaign is being created, it will first go through the approval of these dedicated users before being sent out to application users.

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17.09

White Labeling

Customise your Countly Enterprise user interface by changing the logo, button and menu colors in an easy and intuitive way.

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17.09

Plugin Uploader

Upload and enable your custom plugins through the user interface without any need to manually upload anything to your Countly server.

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17.05

Dashboards

Create dashboards to hold time series, bar chart, number and table widgets that can visualise data from multiple applications. Select the theme of your choice, enjoy the full screen TV mode, share your dashboard with other Countly users.

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17.05

Assistant

Enjoy easy to consume insights about your applications such as active user changes over weeks and top entry/exit points.

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17.05

Flows

Automatically capture and visualise common custom event paths of your application users take without defining each individual path as a funnel.

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17.05

Active Directory

Bypass Countly user management and authenticate users through Microsoft Active Directory. Manage user access rights via Active Directory groups.

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The road ahead

Our first version of 2018, 18.01 (January), will include 100+ improvements including below new functionality/plugins;

Automated (triggered) push notifications

Times of day analysis for custom events and sessions

Data migration plugin to migrate data between Countly servers

Scroll heatmaps for websites

Showing dropped users between funnel steps

Immediately following 18.01, we'll have a 18.02 (February) release to add necessary SDK and server updates to be fully compliant with GDPR which will go into effect in May 2018.

Some of the topics we'll be covering in other releases in 2018 are;

More widget types in Dashboards plugin to work with funnel, retention, drill, times of day and view data

Ability to define funnel steps with segment filtering

Overview for custom events to see most important custom events at a glance

Blueprint for custom events to manage descriptions, event and property names

Automatic view/screen flow tracking and visualisation