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George Spofford, Chief Architect
George Spofford, Chief Architect, , has twenty years of experience in OLAP and multidimensional information systems, particularly in development of analytical applications and client and server OLAP tools and utilities. He recently re-joined DSS Lab full time after four years as Distinguished Engineer at Hyperion Solutions Corporation (the company that invented the term "OLAP"), where he focused on semantic integration of and query processing against analytical data sources, as well as contributing to the Essbase feature set. With DSS Lab, he consults on analytical model design and implementation, analytical software developent, and benchmarks the features and performance of OLAP and DSS tools. He also periodically publishes articles in industry journals and speaks at conferences.
George is the lead author of MDX Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services and Hyperion Essbase, 2nd Edition. (John Wiley and Sons, 2005). He also authored the first edition of MDX Solutions and co-authored, with Mr. Thomsen, Microsoft OLAP Solutions, published in July 1999 by John Wiley & Sons. George was also a co-founder of Dimensional Systems. Prior to DSS Lab and Dimensional Systems, Mr. Spofford was the chief product architect for the OLAP portion of an integrated OLAP-relational DBMS product at Computer Corporation of America (CCA). The product provided full support for multidimensional modeling as well as warehouse summarization. At Power Thinking Tools, he was VP of Engineering and lead developer of FreeThink, a 32-bit desktop MD modeling and analysis tool with integrated visualization for business and scientific analysis.
mail: gspofford (AT) dsslab (DOT) com