Imagine that you are responsible for managing databases and data for a growing start-up business. You customers are nationwide, and so are your suppliers. Your responsibility includes customer data, product inventory, supplier information, and all the financial accounting information for the company. Up until now you have been keeping all your data on in-house servers located at your place of business. After taking this course, you've realized that your company might be well-served by moving your data out to the cloud and then accessing it using web-based approaches as you've seen in this week's materials.
Go to Microsoft's Azure site and review their current database product offerings at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/sql-database/.
Synthesize the information from this week's materials with information with the information from the Microsoft Azure site into a high-level proposal to consider moving your data there. Your deliverable for the assignment will be a three-to-five page written report to the company CEO about the benefits and challenges of doing so. Try to be a specific as you can about which parts of the product offerings would be beneficial, and which parts of your business will be most affected and how. How will you access your data and run reports?