Since the company wants to minimize its initial software costs, which payment methods allow the company to achieve this? (choose more than one)
Company Background
GrooveShow Company is a large manufacturing company which produces and sells furnitures. The company prospers in recent years and the number of its employees has reached to 2300.
Physical Locations
Since the Everbrighting Bank is an international organization, there’re about 70 stores and 3 factories in Europe. Its head office locates in Chicago.
Existing Environment
Existing Licensing Solution
The GrooveShow Company buys all Windows Server licenses, Microsoft Office licenses, and Windows Server CALs through different Select License agreements.
All Windows operating system licenses are OEM. At present, Software Assurance covers no software.
Existing IT Environment
There’re about 750 desktop computers and 65 laptops in the company network. All these computers have Windows XP Professional and Office Professional installed.
About 60 desktops run a terminal-based point-of-sale application and 40 desktops run a line- of-business application. The two applications are used in manufacturing.
There’re 10 servers in the company and all of them have Windows Server 2003 installed. The servers are located in the head office and the three factories.
Business Requirements
Planned Changes
According to the rapid development of the Bank business, the company intends to move to Windows Vista in a minimal time, deploy a Web Portal solution to allow for data collaboration, and enable all employees
to access e-mail remotely by give them Windows Mobile smartphones.
Problem Statements
The company has found some problems, such as the company has no Software Asset Management strategy, the current purchasing process is too complicated, and the existing IT infrastructure does not have
a high security level.
Business Goals
The company wants to reduce the costs of software licensing and server deployment, and the costs for training the Company’s IT staff, the initial costs of Windows Vista, Windows Moblile, and the Web portal.
The company wants to make users be able to run Office at work and at home, wants to access the latest Microsoft software. The company aims to strengthen control of the licensing purchase process and license compliance while reduce the administrative overhead associated with managing the company’s computers. Besides all these, the company wants to implement a solution for Software Asset Management.
Question
Since the company wants to minimize its initial software costs, which payment methods allow the company to achieve this? (choose more than one)
Company Background
GrooveShow Company is a large manufacturing company which produces and sells furnitures. The company prospers in recent years and the number of its employees has reached to 2300.
Physical Locations
Since the Everbrighting Bank is an international organization, there’re about 70 stores and 3 factories in Europe. Its head office locates in Chicago.
Existing Environment
Existing Licensing Solution
The GrooveShow Company buys all Windows Server licenses, Microsoft Office licenses, and Windows Server CALs through different Select License agreements.
All Windows operating system licenses are OEM. At present, Software Assurance covers no software.
Existing IT Environment
There’re about 750 desktop computers and 65 laptops in the company network. All these computers have Windows XP Professional and Office Professional installed.
About 60 desktops run a terminal-based point-of-sale application and 40 desktops run a line- of-business application. The two applications are used in manufacturing.
There’re 10 servers in the company and all of them have Windows Server 2003 installed. The servers are located in the head office and the three factories.
Business Requirements
Planned Changes
According to the rapid development of the Bank business, the company intends to move to Windows Vista in a minimal time, deploy a Web Portal solution to allow for data collaboration, and enable all employees
to access e-mail remotely by give them Windows Mobile smartphones.
Problem Statements
The company has found some problems, such as the company has no Software Asset Management strategy, the current purchasing process is too complicated, and the existing IT infrastructure does not have
a high security level.
Business Goals
The company wants to reduce the costs of software licensing and server deployment, and the costs for training the Company’s IT staff, the initial costs of Windows Vista, Windows Moblile, and the Web portal.
The company wants to make users be able to run Office at work and at home, wants to access the latest Microsoft software. The company aims to strengthen control of the licensing purchase process and license compliance while reduce the administrative overhead associated with managing the company’s computers. Besides all these, the company wants to implement a solution for Software Asset Management.
Question
Since the company wants to minimize its initial software costs, which payment methods allow the company to achieve this? (choose more than one)
A.
Upfront payments
B.
Spread payments
C.
Monthly payments
D.
Retail purchasing