Overview of Analytics

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elluminate Analytics provides interactive visualizations of study data, enabling authorized users to conduct robust in-study and cross-trial reporting and analysis.

Several Analytics apps are available: 

  • Clinical Data Analytics (CDA): Enables cross-domain and cross-study data exploration. CDA facilitates trend and outlier identification, offering traditional line listings, descriptive statistics, and visual patient profiles. Data is sourced from the Reporting data mart and always reflects the latest data integrated into elluminate. Grouping options are available by compound, therapeutic area, or program.

    Note: Oncology studies include additional oncology-specific sheets.

  • Clinical Trials Operational Analytics (CTOA): Provides an overview of operational data, including enrollment, query and audit metrics, adverse event rates, and protocol deviations. Grouping options are available by compound, therapeutic area, or program.
  • Operational Oversight (OO) (formerly CTMS Insights): Offers a dashboard view of operational data designed for broad operational data consumption. Pre-defined visualizations, based on Operational Data Repository tables, can be used directly or as templates for customized sheets.
  • Sample Management Analytics (SMA): Automates and streamlines trial sample tracking. Standard sheets provide automated data reconciliation, sample journey visualizations, and statistical and overview reports for real-time sample tracking.
  • Clinical Data Analytics Study Snapshot: Contains the same sheets as the CDA app, but limited to study snapshots, a point-in-time capture of all study data.
    Note: Study snapshots do not include current data.
  • Custom Analytics: Hosts custom apps created using custom data models. No standard sheets are provided; all sheets must be created within each custom app. 

If CDA and CTOA applications are configured for URL-level grouping, the application name will reflect the grouped applications. 

Key Features

  • URL-Level Grouping: CDA and CTOA apps can be grouped by compound, therapeutic area, or program at the URL level.
  • Data Source: Most visualizations use data from the Reporting data mart.
  • Standard Visualizations: A library of standard sheets is available in CDA, CTOA, OO, and SMA apps.
  • Customization: Create customized sheets by duplicating an out-of-the box sheet or creating your own sheet from scratch.
  • Filtering: Use filters (or selections) to limit results to your areas of interest. Selections persist across sheets, allowing filtering across domains and visualizations.
  • Bookmarks: Save frequently used selections as bookmarks for easy access.
  • Issue Tracking: Add issues directly on filtered sheets.
  • Review Registration: Register your review of a sheet.

Note: Be sure your browser is one supported by elluminate Analytics. See details on supported browsers under FAQs.

Tip: Maximize your spreadsheet workflow! Open two sheets in separate browser tabs; your filter settings will remain consistent between them, allowing for quick comparisons using the same criteria across different data sets. However, to apply different filters to each sheet independently, open each sheet in a different browser (e.g., Chrome and Edge).

Access Analytics

Access Analytics from the elluminate Platform Menu by selecting Analytics under Data Review.

Analytics opens to the Analytics landing page. 

Analytics Landing Page

Analytics Landing Page

The Analytics landing page displays available apps.

CDA and CTOA apps can be grouped by compound, therapeutic area, or program; the app name reflects this grouping at the URL level.

Note: Studies must have complete compound, therapeutic area, and program fields in their configuration to be included in a group.

To view all apps, scroll down.

Each app card displays the app name, version, deployment date and time, and last data model reload time. Icons provide access to:

  • The Home Page
  • The Overview Page
  • An app description (hover over the 'i' icon)
  • The Favorites feature (add the app to your favorites; view only your favorite apps by clicking the Favorites icon in the master header). 

Clicking the app card or the Home icon opens the Home Page; clicking the Overview icon opens the Overview Page:

  • Home Page: Displays summary information for all the studies in the app, or for selected studies. The default view shows data for all included studies.

    Note: Key Performance Indicators are consistent across all CDA apps.

  • Overview Page: Displays all available sheets. Click a sheet to open it. You can also access your stories, bookmarks, and create new sheets from this page.

Navigate Analytics Sheets

The example below shows the CDA Home Page. All Analytics apps share the same functionality.

CDA Home Page

Top Toolbar

Top Toolbar

Functionality (from left to right):

  • Analytics app Drop-down:
    Analytics App Drop Down
    • Home Overview: Provides an overview and access to Sheets, Bookmarks, and Stories.
    • Analyze Sheet: Displays the sheet (default).
    • Narrate Storytelling: Access the Stories feature (Storytelling).
  • Name of app: Click on the name to view app details.
  • 3-dot (...): Opens a drop-down menu with options to view the app overview, download the sheet as a PDF, duplicate or embed the sheet, toggle touchscreen mode, access help, and view about information.
  • Ask Insight Advisor: Allows you to ask questions about your data.

2nd Toolbar

Second Toolbar

Functionality (from left to right):

  • Assets: Opens a panel for browsing Sheets and Bookmarks, with grid or list views, and a built-in search bar.
    • Sheets: Access and manage sheets.
    • Bookmarks: Access and manage bookmarks.
  • Insight Advisor: Opens the Insight Advisor feature.
  • Selection Icons:
    Selection Icons
    • Smart Search: Search the data.
    • Step Back: Revert to the previous selection.
    • Step Forward: Redo a previously undone selection.
    • Clear All Selections: Remove all selections.
    • Selections Bar: Displays all applied selections and filters.
  • Selections Tool: Open the Selections Tool.
    • The Selections Tool provides an overview of all dimensions and fields in an app. It also offers a detailed view of selected data, enabling you to explore associations within unused dimensions.
  • Duplicate: Duplicates the current sheet (requires the Analytics Edit privilege).

Sheet Header with Toolbar

Sheet Header Toolbar

Functionality (from left to right):

  • Name: Displays the sheet name.
  • Toolbar options:
    • Left / Right arrows: Navigate to the previous or next sheet.
    • Create Issue: Opens the Create Issue window.
    • Issues: Opens the global Issues module.
    • Register Review: Opens the Register Review window.
    • Reviews: Opens the Analytic Sheet Review Log Report in a new tab.
    • Copy Link: Copies the current sheet's link (including applied filters) to the clipboard. Paste this link into a chat or document.
    • Share: Emails the current sheet's link (including applied filters). A confirmation prompt may appear; if so, click OK. You may need to disable pop-up blockers for this site if your email client doesn't open automatically.

      Note: Only users with the appropriate privileges can access share sheet links.

    • Help Center: Opens the elluminate Help Center.

Sheet Filters

Filters are consistently ordered from left to right, progressing from general to specific.

Sheet Filters

Clicking a filter allows selections, which persist across sheets and are displayed in the Selections toolbar.

CDA Home Page

Hover / Right-Click Options

Hovering over or right-clicking a visualization displays options that vary depending on the visualization type.

Right-Click / Hover Options

Functionality (clockwise from bottom to top)

  • Snapshot Library: Opens a window to access snapshots.
  • Snapshot Annotation: Add a description to a snapshot.
  • Exploration: Opens the visual to explore the data.
  • Full Screen: Expands the visualization to full screen.
  • More: Opens a drop-down menu with options to View Data, Share (embed option), Download and more.

    Tip: If using a touchscreen, try right-clicking to see the options.

Note: For Data Central-configured studies, clicking the Unique Subject Identifier in a data listing (usually at the bottom of a sheet) opens the Graphical Patient Profile in Data Central.
Lab Results
 

Sample Management Analytics (SMA): Home Button

SMA sheets (excluding the Home page) include a Home button (house icon) to return to the Home page.

SMA Home Button

 

Navigate the Overview Page

The example below shows the CDA Overview page. All Analytics apps share the same functionality.

Overview Page

The Analytics app name and details display at the top of the window.

Left-Side Tabs: 

  • Sheets (default): Displays all sheets in grid view (default), showing public sheets at the top and your personal sheets below. Scroll to view all sheets. Use the buttons at the far right to create a new sheet or switch to list view. Select a sheet to open it.
  • Bookmarks: Access and manage your bookmarks.
  • Stories: Displays all stories in grid view (default), showing public stories at the top and your personal stories below. Scroll to view all stories. Use the buttons at the far right to create a new story or switch to list view.

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