SharePoint Usage Reports

Question

We’re using SharePoint as a document management solution on our corporate portal. I have tried understating what’s going on inside in terms of usage reporting… and I have found out that the SharePoint server is simply not collecting the required usage data… even if I use some log analyzers… the data is simply not there for me to crunch… can a sharepoint server be configured to collect more usage data? Anyone knows about this issue?

Answer 1

Hi ... indeed there's an issue here... SharePoint out of the box is not providing the sufficient information, actually, SharePoint is not even collecting the required information needed in order to analyze the usage data... especially when it comes to working with documents stored in SharePoint  sites/libraries etc.

Try this third party tool - CardioLog form Intlock - they have an independent tracking agent so they collect usage data of almost any action users are performing, and they offer some advanced usage reports specifically targeted also for your solution - look at the "SharePoint Enterprise Content Management Analytics" bundle.

(their web site - http://www.intlock.com )

let me know how it went...