Fell Your Pain. IT & Computer Science Essay Research Paper

Introduction
Upon an assessment and evaluation of your company’s current IT services and needs, it is our pleasure to offer you this IT Solutions Proposal for your review and approval. As an established, yet growing company, we recognized that your firm would need an upgrade to your current systems to meet the growing demands from your clients. This improvement to your systems and infrastructures could help boost overall productivity. Given this, we have also created this proposal with your budget in mind and made sure that the services included would provide optimal returns in the long-run. We hope that you could kindly review and assess the solution detailed below to make sure if it fits your needs. Nonetheless, we are positive that the proposal would be of great value to your firm and help it in its continuous growth. For any concerns or clarifications, you could contact us directly in the details provided above. If you have accepted the terms provided below, kindly affix your signature in the space provided below.
Proposed Solution
As stated earlier, before creating this solution, a detailed review of your current services and needs have been conducted. Specifically, we have recognized that some of the main services that would benefit your processes, upon improvement are collaboration (i.e., messaging), storage and backup, transcription, data processing, monitoring, and trouble-shooting, among others. Consequently, our approach to these is to build a upgradable, easy-to-fix, and interconnected network that would enable your systems to work at its peak performance (>99%). The details of such solutions are outlined below:
Work-station Hardware:
In order to upgrade your system and services, additional pieces of hardware must be added. Included in the list below are the additions/upgrades needed to optimized your performance.
Additional Hardware to purchase



Hardware

Quantity

Cost (average; indirect and direct)

Allocation

Sub-total

Desktops

7

$400

Office manager, IT Support manager, Paralegal, Receptionist, Law Clerk

$2,800

Laptops

18

$500

Lawyers (partners and associates)

$9,000

Printers (laser-jet)

3

$200

Everyone

$600

UPS (uninterruptible power supply)

7

$100

Everyone

$700

Workstation Hardware Total: $13,100
In the table presented above, the estimate for the total cost for workstation hardware would is around $13,100 dollars. The number of each workstation was based on the needs and demands of each work function (i.e., lawyers – laptops for mobility). Also, the total costs above would include the direct and indirect costs. Additionally, setting up the workstation would also be included in our services.
Networking and Database Management:
In order to streamline collaboration between the employees, data management and storage, and even inter-agency collaboration (e.g., between different law firms), networking solutions have also been included in the proposed service. This would include both hardware and software systems.
Available Hardware On-site



Hardware

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