Information Systems and Business

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/technology/21blue.html?_r=0

This article shows that a lot of businesses who are doing well tend to buy business intelligence companies.

1) Why do you think it is beneficial for such companies to purchase a data warehouse company?

2)Information systems related to business intelligence can also help forecast the future results of the company, do you think that people are going to lose their jobs because of that? Also, what do you think is more accurate, an information system or an employee?

3) Can companies use information systems unethically? How?