Author's Acknowledgments

I would like to acknowledge my grandma, Tiny Withee, who turns 96 this year and is still going strong. I would also like to acknowledge my wife Rosemarie Withee, mother Maggie Blair, father Ken Withee, sister Kate Henneinke, and parents-in-law Alfonso and Lourdes Supetran and family.

I would like to acknowledge my colleagues at Hitachi Consulting. I would like to send a special thank you to Paul Turley, Reed Jacobson, Aaron Daisley-Harrison, and Todd Folsom for putting up with my endless questions about the experiences they have had over their very successful careers.

I would like to thank Denny Lee and Thierry D'Hers for their support on the Microsoft side and the discussions about the Microsoft Business Intelligence technologies.

Thanks to Katie Mohr, Tiffany Ma, Blair Pottenger, Barry Childs-Helton, and the rest of the For Dummies team for providing more support than I ever thought possible. It is truly amazing how much work goes into a single book. Thanks also to my technical reviewer Chris Leiter for his insights and guidance.

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