Company Background
Corporate Information
Tailspin Toys is a toy manufacturing company. The company has 150 employees. The number of employees in each department is shown is the following table.
Physical Locations
Tailspin Toys main office is located in Auckland, New Zealand. The company has 10 stores and 2 factories that are located within the same tereritory.
Existing Environment
Existing Licensing Solution
Tailspin Toys purchases all Microsoft Office license, Windows Server licenses, and Windows Server CALs through different Open License agreements. All Windows operating operating system licenses are OEM.
No software is currently covered by Software Assurance.
Existing IT Environment
The network contains 20 desktops and 80 portable computers. The portable computers are used by the sales staff. All desktops and portable computers run Windows XP Professional and Office Professional.
The main office has a server that runs Windows Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2003. Each factory has a server that runs Windows Server 2003.
Business Requirements
Planned Changes
Tailspin Toys plans to do the following:
Deploy a Web Portal solution to allow for data collaboration
Provide all sales staff with Windows Mobile smartphones so that they can access e-mail remotely
Migrate to Window Vista as soon as possible
Problem Statements
Tailspin Toys considers the current purchasing process too complicated. Tailspin Toy is concerned about license compliance.
Business Goals
Tailspin Toys has the following business goals:
Improve control of the licensing purchase process
Ensure that the sales staff is able to run Office on their home computers
Ensure that Tailspin Toys has access to the latest Microsoft software
Minimize the costs of licensing and deploying software
Minimize the costs of managing computers
Minimize the initial licensing costs of Windows Vista, Windows Mobile, and the Web portal
Retain perpetual use rights for all products purchased
Question
Since the company wants to cut down initial software costs, which of the following methods allow the company to meet this business goals? (Choose more than one)
A.
Monthly payments
B.
Retail purchasing
C.
Upfront payments
D.
Spread payments