Build a generic Analytics platform: allow to measure 'Mobile App', 'Intranet Website', 'Wearable', 'Sensor' and more

[mattab]

Piwik could be used a drop-in analytics platform tracking many different properties, providing all analytics you need out of the box, or with plugins from the Marketplace.

Piwik is already used as open analytics platform for web analytics by more than 1 million websites. Learn more: What is Piwik?. You can already track with Piwik websites, intranet, mobile apps, and more. Apps are tracked using Android SDK (#4733) Piwik iOS SDK

We want to improve Piwik to let you measure Any Thing and expose new user experience, APIs, and useful analytics reports customised depending on what Thing you measure.

• Analytics for Intranet Websites: #7724
• Analytics for Mobile Apps #7131
• Analytics for APIs #4178
• Analytics for Ad Server #6180
• Analytics for Retail shops, Connected Homes #6777, Car or Motorbike usage #6776, wearables #6778
• and any Thing else that has users and activity and where there is value for analytics (custom plugins have no limit!)

Please comment with any related thoughts about tracking more properties in Piwik and provide a great user experience.

[anonymous-matomo-user]

I would like to see this change implemented. My ticket #5333

[mattab]

Piwik has many interesting use cases for the mid-long term that could be done with plugins :+1:

• Measuring the internet of things #5935,
• Measure your car usage and locations,
• Measure your home light system and windows/doors system,
• Piwik as a Metadata collection platform (measuring communications metadata, people activities and locations),
• Measure activity tracked in Google Cloud Monitoring API,
• Measure Arduino and Raspberry Pi via Arduino Analytics SDK and Raspberry Pi Analytics SDK for Piwik,

• 5357 Health Analytics with Piwik, Google Fit Analytics.

[tsteur]

Now that we have Mobile SDK for iOS/Android it would be just natural to start working on that maybe for Piwik 2.12. At least some initial changes with some wording changes. Maybe we can do more and more changes over time to have it done by Piwik 3.0.

[mattab]

The first step to achieve our Grand Vision for a generic analytics platform is: "Add possibility to manage and view Apps" #7131