Expanding your business from a single office operation to a multi-office enterprise seems fairly simple until you begin to ask questions about the IT infrastructure. The expansion can be fairly painless if you planned for it while deploying the business’s original technology environment. If this wasn’t the case then you have a lot more thinking to do.
For example, let’s say that you have a server in the original office which runs the back end of an application, and your workstations run the client side to this app. How do you get your new workstations in the new office to communicate with this server? A better question is: Do you even want those workstations communicating with the original server? Maybe you want a separate client server setup in the new office. Will you have logistic problems with two separate set ups? Is data sharing between offices a requirement (or simply a desire)? Would costs for an additional server and application licenses be prohibitive? As you can see there is a lot to think about. Of course, if you went with a totally SaaS based application environment you wouldn’t have to ask yourself so many questions - but sometimes such an environment isn’t feasible.
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