Company Background
Corporate Information
NCCC Corporation is a large investing organization which attracts foreign business and investment in many fields. This organization gets prosperous in recent years.
NCCC has the following interests in two subsidiary companies, it has 49 percent of Kosta Ltd and 95 percent of GSK, Inc.
There are many employees in the respective companies. In NCCC, there are 600 employees; In Kosta Ltd and GSK, Inc, there are respectively 150 and 250 employees. The number of employees for each company
is shown in the following table. According to the investigation, the work environment of three companies are in common somewhat, that is, the staff can be allowed to work at home flexible and they share customers resources and make
collaboration on projects.
Existing Environment
Existing Licensing Solution
NCCC uses a Select Agreement to purchase server licenses, while Kosta Ltd and GSK, Inc purchase their licenses separately from NCCC with higher prices most of the time.
Of the three companies, NCCC approves all purchasing determinations and their corporate standard determines that they must own eternal licenses.
Existing Licensing Solution
From the table, you can see that NCCC has 14 servers, Kosta Ltd has 6 servers and GSK, Inc has 8 servers. Of these servers, five servers owned by NCCC have Software Assurance covered.
Staff of all three companies has their own computers which have Windows XP Professional or Windows Vista Business and various versions of Microsoft Office installed.
According to the business requirement, the IT department upgrades software every 18 months.
Business Requirements
Planned Changes
According to the development of the company, both the amount of investments and the number of employees should be increased over the next three years.
NCCC intends to have Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) implemented to make employees collaborate on projects, so all servers will be upgraded to Windows Server 2008 Enterprise within the next
year.
Business Problems
The staff of IT department reports that they have a limited training budget. As a result, the limited training budget hinders them from maintaining newly deployed software.
Business Goals
NCCC Corporation aims to standardize the desktop operating systems in all three companies and allow all employees to access the resources that are on all of the servers.
Question
In the options below, which Software Assurance benefit provides the best return on investment (ROI) for the IT department?
A.
Training Vouchers assurance benefit
B.
eLearning assurance benefit
C.
Home Use Program assurance benefit
D.
TechNet Plus Subscription assurance benefit