1) Company 1: The Bloom Design Group is a company that offers interior design services to businesses and individuals throughout the world. Bloom has a corporate office in New York and a second office in Los Angeles. The company’s website features a virtual decorating tool, which offers clients the chance to play with different color and design schemes. This tool allows their clients to get an idea of what a design project would look like once it is completed, before actually making color and design decisions. The website also gives interior designers access to their client files and company style guides, as well as create the ability to electronically process orders for design materials and furniture. The designers use a secure login and a password to gain access to the website and its features. The company's workforce spends all its time working remotely and accessing the corporate network using a secure VPN.
2) Company 2: Sunica Music and Movies is a local multimedia chain with four locations. Each store has been acting independently of one another and has difficulty coordinating customer sales from one store to another based on inventory. Because of poor communications, revenue and customer base have been lost due to jumbled inventory from store to store, decentralized accounting, and no Internet-based commerce. With the successful implementation of a WAN solution, all stores will have the ability to access a centralized database for inventory and dynamically reorder stock based on sales. Each location will tunnel all financial transactions through a central accounting package, eliminating bookkeeping errors, and centralizing the company finances. All transactions and customer inventory browsing will be done through a web interface and custom intranet website. To meet their need for an Internet customer base, web servers will be located in their data