These efforts are enabling WebTrends to meet the management and reporting needs of some of the most heavily trafficked sites on the web. WebTrends Corporation is focused on delivering industry leading scalability with enterprise level products, services and support. This paper examines the different areas of scalability and how WebTrends addresses each area. The Importance of Scalability Commercial web sites have evolved from a simple brochure model to sophisticated eBusiness systems expected to serve a worldwide user base and produce millions of dollars in revenue. To support this next generation model, managers are looking for eBusiness reporting solutions with the robust scalability, accuracy, and reliability required for an enterprise scale system central to an organization's growth and operation.
Scalability is critical.
As web sites grow in popularity and strategic importance, their traffic load increases and their infrastructure grows in size and complexity. At the same time, the need for data analysis and reporting intensifies. High volume sites have the ability to generate a tremendous amount of data which, properly analyzed, can yield mission critical information. For instance, entire bookstore inventories, law libraries, and product catalogs have been digitized and put online. The complexity of site design increases, including dynamic content and database-driven pages.