Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Jonathan Gennick of Apress for shepherding an aspiring, rookie technical author through his first book, from idea to proposal to this final product. I would like to express my gratitude to Anita Castro of Apress for suffering with me through the final weeks of production. Rodney Landrum, your comments and experience as technical editor resulted in a better product than I could have possibly made without you. Finally, thanks to Doug Slay, Bill Craig, and Alyson Boyd, and the team at ComFrame for working to move the business intelligence practice to the next level.

Thank you, too, Donald Farmer, Jamie MacLennan, Bryan Smith, Bob Gilmore, Phil Sleboda, Bert Crump, Brad Allen, and Jonathan Brogdon.