A company that I manage the website is currently in the process of renewing the entire site which I currently edit by html. The new designer wants to use a few newer technologies for the website that I will take over after the rebuild. I have a few questions about these. The new site is to use two things that I do not have any experience with now:

SQL driven site using a content manager (Drupal)
Google Analytical

Using SQL and a content manager seems like the site is getting more complicated. Is there any great advantage in using this? Does this mean that we are endlessly committed to Drupal for administration?

The use of Google Analytical to track our web usage also concerns me. Will this cause some more restricted browser settings to not load the site or pages? It seems to me that Google is already “big brother”. Also there will be a sub-website that uses php to secure an area that we use to load and limit data. This could not be sent to google because of NDA’s. I’m not sure how we could use templates and not use the tracking.

I guess my question becomes is there anyone who could shed some light on these subjects and help me in my discussion to implement this type of site?

Any and all opinions are requested and valued.

Thanks, Jeff