Company Background
Corporate Information
Woodgrove Bank offers investment portfolios to small and medium businesses.
Physical Locations
Woodgrove Bank has a single office. The bank has 150 employees. Twenty-five of the employees work in the marketing department.
Existing Environment
Existing Licensing Solution
Woodgrove Bank acquires the licenses for its desktop operating systems through OEM and the licenses for Microsoft Office through a retail store.
Existing IT Environment
Woodgrove Bank has 50 desktops and 25 portable computers. The computers run different versions of Office.
The marketing department’s employees share the portable computers.
Woodgrove Bank has one server that runs Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Standard.
Business Requirements
Planned Changes
Woodgrove Bank plans to hire 125 employees within the next year.
The bank will deploy a new server to host its Internet Web site.
The bank plans to deploy a new application that requires Microsoft Office Access to be installed on all desktops.
Problem Statements
Woodgrove Bank runs different versions of Office, which cause file compatibility problems.
Business Goals
Woodgrove Bank has the following business goals:
Provide external users with access to the bank’s Web site.
Ensure that the marketing department employees are aware of the new features in Office
Retain ownership of licenses for all products
Allow for the deployment of desktops by using imaging software
Standardize Office on all computers
Ensure that Office can always be upgraded to the latest version at no additional cost
Minimize initial costs
Question
You need to recommend a licensing program for Office that meets the bank’s business goals and planned changes. Which licensing program should you recommend?
A.
Open License
B.
Open Value Subscription
C.
Open Value Company-wide
D.
Open Value Non-company-wide