Hardware Requirements For Widget Wonders OS Upgrade Case Study

Widget Wonders is a worldwide leader in widgets. Worldwide leader is building a state-of-the-art facility to manufacture and distribute the next generation of widgets. Widget Wonders is going to create a manufacturing and distribution center in the United States. A few departments were created, having its personal task and aims to achieve. Departments are going to have limited personnel, consisting of well-quailified specialists. This is the list of the departments: Sale, Manufacturing, Inventory Control, Research and development, MIS. Widget Wonders utilizes new technology in their operations while keeping an eye on the budget. The widget industry is very competitive, and company assets must be protected from rival companies. Widget Wonders had a hardware problem with each of them, they didn’t know how much money to spend. SNHUConsulting hired a specialist to determine what kind of hardware needed and how much money should be spent. Here is the report:
Sales department that consists of 50 employees will require a mobility to access company resources while visiting customers and presenting at sales meetings and conferences. They will work with customers presenting the company innovations, which will definitely make the client be interested in the products. Sales department will need a light laptop or tablets with long battery life. This department are going to have problems and profit loss, if the products that are seen by everybody will be out of sight. LCD projectors are going to be important thing to face too, as meeting and conferences will be held constantly.
Manufacturing department that consists of 45 employees are going to require access to word processing and spreadsheet programs and the internet. Quad-cores desktop pc, running on Windows operating systems would be the best choice. 4 Gb of RAM and 1 TB of hard disk drive space, will definitely fulfill the manufacturing department goals. Printers and scanners will be needed too. As tons of information are going to be went through.
Inventory Control department, having 30 employees will require mobility and power to access database systems. This department will need processors with lots of cores starting from 16 and RAM memory starting from 128 GB, which will have enough power to access and overwrite data. Basically servers are needed for maintaining data usage. Mobility is another concern that we need to focus on. Laptops with light weight such as MacBook would fix the problem. Operation system is easy understandable and accessible. The cheapest MacBook computers have 1.4GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processors, and 4 GB memory, which is enough.
Research and Development will be consisted of 20 members and their task will be in usage of computer graphics and computer-aided design (CAD) programs. Research and Development will need high end desktop pc’s running on Windows operating system. Quad-Core processors, with high-end Nvidia video cards of K-series is the minimum requirement. The RAM is also in important thing to focus, as the computer going to use lots of memory for graphics processes. Providing tablets will allow the designers to easily work with graphics, like illustrator or Photoshop.
MIS department will consist of 5 employees requiring additional processor and memory requirements to support administration tasks. Simple 8 GB core processor with 16 GB of memory will be needed for MIS. The servers will allow employees to support administration task, or critical issues that the company might face.
This recommendations will last for more than three years, because they are related as high tech hardware for nowadays. The technical progress never stops, but still, this hardware will long live it life. Some parts will needed to be upgraded, but not that soon. Those upgrades will be minor, and won’t affect the Widget Worker’s company budget.