Difference Between Omniture DataWarehouse and ASI slots

Many first time users of Omniture SiteCatalyst have this question as to what is the difference between DataWarehouse and ASI slots. Infact ASI slots is part of Omniture DataWarehouse. However there is a major difference between the two -- whereas DataWarehouse is ideally used for ad hoc analysis (mostly one time requests), ASI slots are created for segmenting your traffic and using all your SiteCatalyst reports on this segments.

Omniture Site Catalyst: Props ,eVars and events

Omniture SiteCatalyst is one of the most advanced web analytics solutions available in the market today. SiteCatalyst's advanced reporting capabilities generate over 150,000 report combinations. Traffic reporting lets you analyze all aspects of visitor activity, such as traffic patterns, popular channels, referred technology and finding methods used .

 So How does SiteCatalyst collect data?

The SiteCatalyst data collection process is fairly basic. After proper development time, the SiteCatalyst code (or Code to Paste) is placed in the HTML source code on the desired pages of their production web site(s).