Company Background
Corporate Information
GrooveShow Company is a large manufacturing company which produces and sells furnitures. There are three departments in the company. There are 90 employees in the Sales department, 65 employees in the Production department and 15 employees in the administrative department.
Physical Locations
The head office of GrooveShow resides in Paris. There are 12 stores and 3 factories that are also in France.
Existing Environment
Existing Licensing Solution
GrooveShow Company purchases all Microsoft Office license, Windows Server licenses, and Windows Server CALs through different Open License agreements. All Windows operating system licenses are OEM. At present, no software is covered by Software Assurance.
Existing IT Environment
There are 25 desktops and 85 laptops in the company network. The employees in the Sales department use the laptops. All desktops and laptops have Windows XP Professional and Office Professional installed. There is a server in the head office. The server runs Windows Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2003. Your company has configured each factory with a server which runs Windows Server 2003.
Business Requirements
Planned Changes
GrooveShow Company intends to deploy a Web Portal solution to allow for data collaboration, provide Windows Mobile smartphones for all sales staff so that they can access e-mail remotely, migrate to Window Vista in a minimum time.
Problem Statements
The present purchasing process is considered too complicated. GrooveShow Company is concerned about license compliance.
Business Goals
GrooveShow Company aims to achieve the following business goals:
Keep perpetual use rights for all products purchased
Improve control of the licensing purchase process
Make sure that GrooveShow has access to the latest Microsoft software
Make sure that the sales staff is able to run Office on their home computers
Cut down the costs of licensing and deploying software to the least
Cut down the costs of managing computers to the least
Cut down the initial licensing costs of Windows Vista, Windows Mobile, and the Web portal to the least
Question
The GrooveShow Company asks you to recommend the licensing program, the program must meet the business goals of the company. Of the following licensing programs, which one should you recommend?
A.
You should recommend Open License
B.
You should recommend Select License
C.
You should recommend Open Value Company-wide
D.
You should recommend Open Value Subscription