You are a consultant who has been hired by a company to help update its IT architecture plan.

The company manufactures electric generators and has sales offices and service facilities throughout North America and Central America. One of your tasks is to recommend a data distribution strategy to the company. Although you are familiar with the principles of application architectures and the methods for documenting them, it has been a while since you’ve been in a position of recommending a data distribution approach. Research on the Web or in your school library the questions you should ask and the criteria to use in order to make an appropriate recommendation regarding the data distribution approach the company should take.