My dogs forced me to take breaks every few hours
and helped restore some sanity to the late nights of writing. Special thanks go out
to Greg Clark, Mark Orgel, Jim Walters, and all the other guys at the RCMC. Doug
Churchman was always there to inject some levity into the situation. I??™d also like
to thank Kevin Heine because my wife told me to. I cannot say enough about my
friends at FPG Unlimited. And once again, this book would not have been possible
without the help of my good friend, Martha McMahon.
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Introduction
It was a hot and humid day in New Orleans. I was speaking at a conference,
presenting a topic on Analysis Services (it might have been OLAP Services;
my mind is a little fuzzy on this point). After I finished describing cubes and
showing people how to build them, I browsed the cube using ProClarity 2.0. After
the presentation, I learned there had been someone from ProClarity Corp. (then
called Knosys) in the audience when Tammy Tilzey came up to speak with me. Over
the course of a few months, we discussed the product and its future and I ended up
writing the courseware for version 3.0.
My familiarity with Microsoft??™s data warehousing products goes back to the
beta days of SQL Server 7 and I??™ve always been a fan of the ProClarity front-end
tool. I was fortunate to end up working with ProClarity and see the introduction of
their thin-client product, the ProClarity Analytics Server, as well as the ProClarity
Dashboard and a few other products firsthand.
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