Looking back at our bank example above, we could access all the accounts directly and find which ones belong to a specific customer regardless of which branch or region the account belongs to.

再回过头来看上文中的银行示例，我们可以直接访问所有帐户，并且找到属于指定客户的记录，而不必管其帐户属于哪个部门或区域。

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What is the annual gross profit and interest paid for each customer, summarized by branch, product, and region?

按照支行、产品和地区汇总，要付给每位客户的年净利润和利息是多少？

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This new region will benefit any customer that wants to start instances in different regions as a failure protection measure.

新地区的开通会有益于任何想要在不同地区启动实例以作为失败保护措施的用户。

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The global bank was profitable in every customer group and region for the first time since 2006, as North America came back from the red.

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These snapshots of the various areas could potentially give businesses a way of targeting their product and advertising to the right customer based on the demographics of a region.

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When executives talk about crossing organizational boundaries, they usually mean not one or two boundaries but five or six, such as function, geographical region, process, product and customer.

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