Windowsnt Proposal Essay Research Paper Migration to

Windowsnt Proposal Essay, Research Paper

Migration to Windows NT Proposal Plan

Karl Muller

Louis Murchison

Meena Naik

John Schmid

University of Phoenix

Migration to Windows NT Proposal Plan

As technology advances so should the products and services provided by companies. In every industry, technology is becoming the key success factor to growth and profit. The ability to communicate with people all around the world has created a new marketplace for business. In order to remain competitive, it is important for companies to utilize the most current technology. At ABC Inc., the use of the latest technological tools allows the company to provide first-rate, quality architectural engineering services to its clients. As part of the company’s strategic goal to increase profits and clients, the board of directors established an information technology steering committee to look at how the company could improve its’ technology. The committee was tasked to make sure the company had the latest available industry computer tools and to make sure all employees were uniform in terms of the technology. One of the most important findings of the committee’s research was the fact that the company and its branches were using varying types of software and hardware systems. The findings also showed that this lack of uniformity caused numerous communication problems not only with the branches and corporate offices, but also the clientele. These findings were reported to senior management. Based on the findings, recently, senior management made the decision to ensure all employees, branch offices and corporate office were working on the same software and hardware systems. Management decided to move the entire company to a Windows NT environment, in order to improve productivity, to create uniformity, to create a more functional network infrastructure and to develop an Intranet and Internet web sites. The Information Technology department (referred to as the “Team”) was asked to take a look at the pros and cons of moving to Windows. The Team has prepared the following report based on its research efforts.

Business Requirement(s)

ABC Inc. is a progressive company based in San Diego, California. Since 1980, the company has offered a full range of architectural engineering services, from planning and analysis to design and implementation. We currently employ over 50 people in our home and branch offices that include Las Vegas and San Francisco. Like many companies that implemented computer networks in the 1980s, ABC’s network evolved over the years into a diversified arrangement of machines. These machines included various UNIX servers and workstations and PCs running DOS and Windows 3.1. “The multitude of operating systems and various hardware platforms caused several problems for the IS department, including overlapping administrative and support tasks for different environments, needing to hire specialists for each client/server platform, and having to bolt on software so PCs could access data on the servers. The clients also suffered various problems because of conflicts among different protocol stacks and lack of available memory resulting from terminate-and-stay-resident (TSR) programs loaded in conventional memory.” [Might be a good one to use as our reason why we decided to migrate - what do you guys think.]

Application(s) to be supported

ABC’s design and construction drawings are created with AutoCAD 14 and nearly all structural calculations are produced with the aid of the computer. Employees have access to software best suited to architectural engineering including:

- AutoCAD with SoftDesk Structural Designer

- Microsoft Windows with Microsoft Word and Excel

- Structural Engineering Software (SAP90, ETABS, SAFE, RISA-2D and RISA-3D)

- Project Management Software (Microsoft Project)

- Database Management Software (FileMaker and Paradox)

- Many single purpose Spreadsheets for Structural Analysis and Component Design.”

ABC Inc. employs “a full-time Network Administrator, a full-time Software Development/Support Manager and a full-time Network Support Technician in our home office and several part-time techs in each branch office to maintain the network and install new equipment. This network staff is available to organize, set up, and install a network for our clients and business partners and make recommendations on hardware and software that would best meet particular needs.” [Again, please make changes to suit a company with 50 employees. I found this info at an actual arch/eng firm's site - good example]

Scale (number of users/transactions)

The 50 employees of ABC Inc. provide various architectural and engineering services to federal and commercial customers. The employees include architects, engineers, CAD specialists, human resources, administrative, reproduction specialists, information technology personnel, and accounting and business analysts. The corporate staff in located in San Diego as are a portion of the technical personnel. The rest of the employees are located at the branch offices in Las Vegas and San Francisco.

There are numerous transactions occurring throughout the workday between the corporate and branch offices. The company needs to have an information technology infrastructur

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