tware Development/Support Manager and a full-time Network Support Technician in our home office and several part-time techs in each branch office to maintain the network and install new equipment. This network staff is available to organize, set up, and install a network for our clients and business partners and make recommendations on hardware and software that would best meet particular needs." [Again, please make changes to suit a company with 50 employees. I found this info at an actual arch/eng firm's site - good example]Scale (number of users/transactions) The 50 employees of ABC Inc. provide various architectural and engineering services to federal and commercial customers. The employees include architects, engineers, CAD specialists, human resources, administrative, reproduction specialists, information technology personnel, and accounting and business analysts. The corporate staff in located in San Diego as are a portion of the technical personnel. The rest of the employees are located at the branch offices in Las Vegas and San Francisco. There are numerous transactions occurring throughout the workday between the corporate and branch offices. The company needs to have an information technology infrastructure that can provide strong, productivity capabilities. The company cannot afford to have a computer system which continually break downs and/or needs continuous upgrading. [If you can come up with other examples of transactions our company would perform that would help]There are some important needs of the company, which the technical infrastructure should be capable of performing.Other NeedsAny computer hardware and software chosen by ABC Inc. has to have the capability to meet the needs of the company. There are several specific concerns that need to be addressed by the Team.Distributed AccessThe first area of concern is the system's ability to handle distributed access. Since the company has branches in other loca...
