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Sitecore DMS and Analytics Considerations

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Recently I've been tasked with generating some simulated analytics traffic for our Officecore demo solution. I've been using the TrafficGenerator to do this, this is available on marketplace, but get the package from here: https://github.com/JimmieOverby/SitecoreTrafficGenerator The link on marketplace goes to an older version 0.42, 0.43 is available in the packages section. Getting the data in a has come with a few development considerations. On that basis I thought I'd discuss them and share the solutions I found. Caching: The first thing to consider is that the data you see in the engagement analytics dashboard is not real time. There are a couple of levels of caching that can make the results you see not what you expect. These levels are: Browser:  The refresh button needs to be pressed, the graphs will not auto update. The file Silverlight creates will be cached by the browser,  I found a post here,  http://sitecoreblog.alexshyba.com/2009/04/silv