Assignment
Read the following two articles:
a. From CIOInsight entitled 'How Analytics Saved Sunny Delight $1M' by Shawn Roberts, VP and CIO of Sunny Delight.
b. From CIO entitled 'How Sunny Delight juices up sales with cloud-based analytics' by Clint Boulton.
Write a 2 pages paper addressing the following questions:
a. Is it surprising that a small company such as Sunny Delight could end up with so many different analytics tools?
b. How did Sunny Delight end up with so many analytics tools?
c. What are the trade-offs of moving to an enterprise-level analytics solution for individual employees who may have grown accustomed to working with their own customized solutions for generating data?
d. Gartner reported that most businesses will have access to some sort of self-service BI tool within the next few years. However Gartner estimated that less than 10% will have sufficient data governance practices in place to prevent data inconsistencies across the organization. Why do you think so many companies invest in BI solutions while ignoring governance programs to ensure data consistency?
Format your assignment according to the give formatting requirements:
a. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
b. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
c. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.