Company Background
Corporate Information
Wide World Importers sells and exports products. The main office is located in Dublin and the main shipping office is located in Prague.
The Dublin office has 110 employees and 10 desktops. One hundred of the employees are sales staff.
The Prague office has 90 employees and 50 desktops. Sixty employees in the Prague office share twenty desktops. The other 30 employees have their own desktops.
Each sales staff employee has a portable computer.
Existing Enironment
Existing Licensing Solution
The company purchases all software pre-installed on new computers.
Existing IT Environment
The IT department in Prague is responsible for all technology choices and purchases all hardware.
The company uses the following software:
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Office Professional 2003
Business Requirements
Planned Changes
Wide World Importers plans to implement Terminal Services for its sales staff. The sales staff will access Terminal Services from their portable computers
The company plans to open a new office in Rome. The Rome office will have 20 sales employees.
Business Goals
Wide World Importers has the following business goals:
Standardize software
Minimizes initial software costs
Provide uninterrupted access to e-mail
Reduce spam and increase the availabiltiy of e-mail services
Provide all sales staff with training on the latest version of Office at a minimal cost
Provide a licensing solution that is easy to manage
Provide the sales staff with remote access to Office applications by using Terminal Services
Deploy a database solution by using Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Question
Wide World Importers is evaluating a company-wide agreement. You need to identify a benefit of an Open Value Company-Wide agreement for Wide World Importers. Which benefit should you identify?
A.
Non-perpetual licenses
B.
Two-year agreement term
C.
Platform discount for software purchases
D.
License purchases without Software Assurance