Analysis Of Ryan's And Daughter Accounting Firm

Introduction
Ryan’s and Daughter Accounting Firm, originally founded in 2014, currently employ 1,500 employees and earns an annual revenue of 25 million dollars a year. Currently, the company seeks to increase the company’s workforce by 20%, 300 new employees, with an expected annual income of 50 million dollars in annual revenue. This growth potential growth expectancy vaults Ryan’s and Daughter Accounting Firm from a small business to a medium size company, in the aspects of employees and annual revenue. (Hofstrand & Holz-Clause, 2009) However, the company’s current accounting system of manually entering financial transactions and records, into a Microsoft Access database, hinders the company’s potential due to lack of a reliable accounting
(Dell, n.d.) The hardware cost is the result of the requirement of three Dell PowerEdge R830 Rack Server valued at $167,247.30, a cost of $55,749.10 per server, IT staff efficient hardware and resources to manage all users and data resources. Additionally, two SC7000 valued at $13,998.00, cost of $6,999.00 per server, provides the needed data storage capabilities for the sharing of records, and a redundant backup of financial data. (Dell, n.d.) Firstly, the three Dell PowerEdge R830 are capable of handling all virtualization, databased, and software application requirements, for future system software upgrades and company growth. Secondly, Database software requirement obtain freely in the form of Java Derby Database, with portability and security features allowing to span across multiple hardware platform designations. (NetBeans, n.d.) Thirdly, the servers come preinstalled with Windows Server 2010 R2, providing the software required to integrate all users within one single domain. (Dell, n.d.) Additionally, the active directory software and virtualization software required to operate SAN (storage area network) servers in a raid configuration, the SC7000s. Fourthly, the virtualization capabilities included with the additional
The designated servers, R830, come preinstalled with all required management software, and SC7000 preconfigured as an SAN server. (Dell, n.d.) Furthermore, the only real requirement of the IT staff is to reconfigure the IP address schemes and security protocols on the servers, accomplishable in under 26 workhours, for a 4 personnel administrator team. Additionally, the requirement to migrate all users over to a single domain, proposed time line by the IT managers 96 workforce hours, by the 10-member helpdesk team. The software development team, senior engineer proposed a 3-week timeline for the software development and a 1-week time for testing and debugging. Software designated to developed in Java, to provide cross platform compatibility. (NetBean,