e following report based on its research efforts. Business Requirement(s)ABC Inc. is a progressive company based in San Diego, California. Since 1980, the company has offered a full range of architectural engineering services, from planning and analysis to design and implementation. We currently employ over 50 people in our home and branch offices that include Las Vegas and San Francisco. Like many companies that implemented computer networks in the 1980s, ABC's network evolved over the years into a diversified arrangement of machines. These machines included various UNIX servers and workstations and PCs running DOS and Windows 3.1. "The multitude of operating systems and various hardware platforms caused several problems for the IS department, including overlapping administrative and support tasks for different environments, needing to hire specialists for each client/server platform, and having to bolt on software so PCs could access data on the servers. The clients also suffered various problems because of conflicts among different protocol stacks and lack of available memory resulting from terminate-and-stay-resident (TSR) programs loaded in conventional memory." [Might be a good one to use as our reason why we decided to migrate - what do you guys think?]Application(s) to be supported ABC's design and construction drawings are created with AutoCAD 14 and nearly all structural calculations are produced with the aid of the computer. Employees have access to software best suited to architectural engineering including:- AutoCAD with SoftDesk Structural Designer- Microsoft Windows with Microsoft Word and Excel - Structural Engineering Software (SAP90, ETABS, SAFE, RISA-2D and RISA-3D) - Project Management Software (Microsoft Project) - Database Management Software (FileMaker and Paradox) - Many single purpose Spreadsheets for Structural Analysis and Component Design."ABC Inc. employs "a full-time Network Administrator, a full-time Sof...
