As I sit through the second day of training I can’t help but think back upon my previous experiences with OLAP and BI. My thoughts run back to some other times doing the same things, but it just wasn’t initially called BI or OLAP, simply reports for executives and business decision making. I find it... Continue reading →

Yesterday I attended Maxamine Training as part of my initiation at WebTrends. Maxamine is a web site scanner for finding tags, JavaScript, and other assorted objects within a web application/site. The application tool and software is a client application with a server based storage base. All in all, it is a decent product, and for... Continue reading →

While ramping back up for heavy duty OLAP & BI work there where a few names that kept popping up. These are definitely the heavy hitters in the field. For my (and you fellow reader’s) future reference. The first person is Mosha Pasumansky. He is the father of MDX at Microsoft. His blog is full... Continue reading →

Web analytics are derived in two primary ways, so far (more on this later), JavaScript tags and web server log files. This is pretty much the universal way that web statistics are collected. There are dozens of books out there that cover this in dozens of different ways; Web Analytics Demystified (which I’m reading now),... Continue reading →

Yo! I made a gross error of neglect in my moving on entry! Ryan B. – thanks for giving me some serious ideas on book purchases, a very interesting “other section” at Powerll’s, and for being an all around kick ass programmer! I hope to run into you in the future! Maybe I’ll be able... Continue reading →