Both Steve and Dustin were on the morning meeting. We spent the entire meeting going over two projects. One was a client meeting that I had yesterday and the other topic was summarizing data and creating enterprise or analytical systems for aggregated data and reporting. Both topics were somewhat interrelated. Here are a couple of highlights.

- We talked about a triangle or pyramid type model. As we talked about it, we decided that it would be more of a stepped triangle or stepped pyramid due to how the summaries, roll-up options, and aggregation of data that takes place. We honestly don't know who deep or how high it needs to go. We see the bottom step or base of the pyramid being the daily transactions and transactional data on a per corporation basis. We see one of the next steps rolling up the totals and starting to get into summaries and aggregated totals on a one-to-many relationship between corporations or business entities.

- A couple of variables that have already been a challenge when doing aggregated totals have been vendors and store/locations. This note came from Steve as he is currently building out a custom aggregated totals report and API socket to move data between corporations.

- The other major take away from the discussion was dealing with web based code vs software. We have a couple of tools and places where custom software has been implemented. That is awesome and fills a need, but as soon as something needs to be changed and/or updated, the software type model falls apart. In some ways, we don't even have access to the code and/or even own the code. It is held by a third party. That makes it really tough. Steve would like us to focus on making everything fully web based so that we could modify it if needed.