What is the most cost-effective Office 365 licensing option for the administrative employees and distribution and warehousing employees? To answer, drag the appropriate licensing options to the…

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Case Study: 4 - Fabrikam, Inc

Overview: Fabrikam Inc. is an international pharmaceutical company that has 2,500 employees in the following roles:

• 2,000 research employees
• 250 administrative employees
• 75 sales employees who work remotely
• 175 distribution and warehousing employees

Existing Environment: Server Farm Details: Fabrikam has an on-premises server farm that runs Windows Server 2012 R2, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013, and Microsoft Exchange Server 2013. The physical servers are configured as follows:

• The research department runs sophisticated document management and workflow systems.
• The distribution and warehousing employees only access the company's intranet. All employees use various versions of Microsoft Office to access existing documents. All employees create documents except for the employees in the distribution and warehousing department. Fabrikam has a custom enterprise resource planning (ERP) tool that currently requires Microsoft SQL Server 2012. The server farm contains the following 10 servers:
• Two servers that each have two 2-core processors
• Three servers that each have two 4-core processors
• Five servers that each have two 6-core processors

Current Licensing Solution: Fabrikam has a Microsoft Products and Services Agreement (MPSA) three years ago and used it to purchase on-premises software without Software Assurance (SA). The company also used the agreement to trial some online services, such as Office 365. This transactional method of purchasing licenses has served them well.

Requirements: Business Goals: Fabrikam plans to upgrade its entire Windows Server and SQL Server infrastructure during the next six months to support an update to its ERP tool. Moving forward, the most up-to-date version of these server products must always be deployed. Fabrikam wants to improve the management of the on-premises servers by using Microsoft System Center. Fabrikam wants to minimize the cost of licensing, wherever possible. Fabrikam plans to implement a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy. The new policy will allow employees access to Office, corporate data, and corporate resources. The IT department is concerned about extra work involved in managing and securing the devices. Fabrikam plans to move to Windows 10 Enterprise E3 to take advantage of the product's enhanced security features.

Planned Changes: Fabrikam plans to migrate to Office 365 rather than to purchase the most up-to-date on-premises version of products, such as SharePoint Server. However, employees will require access to on-premises solutions in the short term during the migration to Office 365. The sales department will present solutions to its global clients by using an online solution prior to travelling to meet them. The company plans to use toll-free, dial-in conferencing for online meetings and hopes to host 50 attendees per meeting from the current maximum of 15. The existing ERP tool has limited support for managing customer relationships. Fabrikam wants to evaluate a new customer relationship management (CRM) solution to help sales and administrative employees. Only the sales employees will need to create new opportunities.

Licensing Requirements: Fabrikam employs students from July to September. The company wants to license the students only for the period during which they work.

Solution: Available Licensing Options: Office 365 Enterprise E1, Office 365 Enterprise E3, Office 365 Enterprise E5, Office 365 Enterprise F1.

Administrative employees require advanced features, including potentially CRM evaluation and communication tools. Given their needs and the BYOD policy, Office 365 Enterprise E5 provides comprehensive features including advanced security, analytics, and voice capabilities, aligning with business goals.

Distribution and warehousing employees are described as only accessing the company's intranet and not creating documents. Office 365 Enterprise E3 provides core Office features and collaboration services, which is suitable and cost-effective for their limited use cases without the advanced features of E5 or the highly restricted features of F1.

Answer Mapping:

• Administrative employees: Office 365 Enterprise E5
• Distribution and warehousing employees: Office 365 Enterprise E3

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