SharePoint 2013 Most Popular Items Requirements

Hi all,
I have a General question regarding Usage Data and "Most Popular Items" functionality.
Can anyone provide a list of requirements for this Feature?
Currently the Problem is following we have Setup an Environment with latest CU, configured Search application and Usage Data Collection.
And it seems to be working for page request (Pages library), also we get the popularity Trends Report for site collections, but if we try to get a Popularity Trends Report from a library or a most popular items Report from a library then it is empty.
I have seen some rumors that it only work when we have Office Web Apps installed.
Can anyone confirm that or Point me to an official documentation?
best regards
nadine
Nadine Storandt

Hi Nadine,
Thanks for posting your query.
Most popular items Report is working fine without Office Web Apps installed.
Can you please go through below link for more details on configuration part in case of document library.
http://en.share-gate.com/blog/new-sharepoint-2013-analytics
http://www.dotnetmafia.com/blogs/dotnettipoftheday/archive/2013/03/28/determining-the-most-popular-items-in-a-document-library-in-sharepoint-2013.aspx
Hope this helps you.
Regards
Soni K

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