Industry: Accounting
Manager: Laura Hayden
With an understanding that a network is aimed at sharing resources through interconnecting various devices, what kinds of office equipment (like printers, scanners etc.) will you be in need of for your business operations?
Do you plan to have a full-time network administrator on your staff in order to carry out the maintenance operations on the network?
What kinds of software packages do your staff make use of to carry out their work?
Do any of the software packages require a network to work?
Does your staff generate a lot of files during normal operations?
Do you make use of multimedia programs or use programs that render graphical images or videos?
Will your staff need internet access for their operations or a Local Area Network (LAN) will be sufficient?
If your staff will be needing internet access, what kinds of tasks will they be performing with the internet? Will they need to stream videos over the internet or just download files and send email?
Will your staff be allowed to use removable media to transfer files to and from the computer workstations?
What is the confidentiality level of the files that your staffs work with?
Can staff members have access to the files they work on or they work independent of each other and are not allowed to be privy to the work of others?
Are the workstations to be provided laptop computers or desktop computers?
Will staff members be allowed to bring their own mobile devices and have internet access, if the answer to (g) above is that they need internet access?
Will there be a limit to the number of mobile devices a staff member is allowed to use in the office?
