What is a Virtual Event?
What?
A Virtual Event is a way to apply labels to raw data without modifying that data. You can assign multiple labels to the same autocaptured interaction, even retroactively. This gives you extreme flexibility and keeps both your dataset and your analyses clean and trustworthy, forever.
Retroactive Data With Clicks, Not Code
Anyone (not just engineers) can create Virtual Events in Heap with a point-and-click UI. Add new Events as new questions come up, and get answers in seconds.
Ultimate Flexibility
Virtual Events are created in Heap, not in your codebase. They live in a layer above the autocaptured data, so you can change, combine, and delete them without losing data or needing to wait for new data.
A Trustworthy, Clean Dataset
Since Virtual Events are created without code, they can be modified and updated at any time. With Heap, you can ensure your data set is up-to-date, neatly named, and trusted by everyone as your product grows.
Our Customers
We chose Heap because we wanted more flexibility so that we could learn and adapt to what worked best for us.
David Lee
VP Engineering, NatureBox
Modernize Your Analytics
Modernize Your Analytics
Our virtualization tools allow anyone to get insights in minutes.
- Point-and-Click Editor: Event Visualizer allows you to codelessly create new Virtual Events
- Retroactive Definitions: Virtual Events apply across the entire dataset so new questions can be answered immediately
- Virtual Properties: Combine different property values and renamed properties to create updated key-value pairs
Decouple Analytics from Code
Decouple Analytics from Code
Ensure your company is working from the same data.
- Flexible: Easily modify, merge, or create definitions as your KPIs change and your business evolves
- Controlled: Collaboration is easy – any update applied retroactively, across the entire platform. This keeps your team operating with a trusted set of definitions and frees you to make decisions, not figure out who has the correct dataset
- Organized: Our living event dictionary keeps your Virtual Events, cohorts, and properties organized
- Tied to your codebase
- Only available once you start logging
- Updating data results in complete loss of old data
- Hard to scale because metrics and products change
- Outdated, static tracking plan
- Decoupled from codebase
- Fully retroactive
- No permanent data loss
- Grows with your business; dynamic
- Living, modifiable tracking plan