You were shocked to see that Sunny Delight is a pretty small company given the number of unique analytics tools it has acquired. What potential effects may the many ownership changes at Sunny Delight have had on the kind and amount of business intelligence (BI) solutions used? - What are some of the trade-offs involved with a switch to an enterprise-level analytics solution for individual end users who are used to dealing with their own customized solutions for producing data?

You were shocked to see that Sunny Delight is a pretty small company given the number of unique analytics tools it has acquired. What potential effects may the many ownership changes at Sunny Delight have had on the kind and amount of business intelligence (BI) solutions used? - What are some of the trade-offs involved with a switch to an enterprise-level analytics solution for individual end users who are used to dealing with their own customized solutions for producing data?

Database System Concepts

7th Edition

ISBN:9780078022159

Author:Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

Publisher:Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

Chapter1: Introduction

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