You have at your fingertips the ability to talk in "REALTIME" with anyone anywhere within the network.
Equally important aspect to be taken care of is that for information to be of any value, it has to be of right type, at right place, at the right time and to the right person.
We have experience and the expertise to provide state-of-the-art solutions
around the networked environment. Whether its simply entry of personal
computers or the complex multi-vendor connectivity spread over a widely
dispersed geographical area leave it to us and see it being executed with
a simplicity born from experience.
The HOST computer became the centre of the computing environment, and was managed by a team of data processing professional whose sole task was to operate the system and provide reports to the various departments in the organisation. While this method of computerisation has its merits, the major minus was that the system could get easily overloaded as the number of users and consequently,, the terminals increased. Secondly, most of the information was centralised to one pool of people, the system professionals, rather than end users.
This type of centralised processing systems differ from the distributed processing systems used by LANs. In distributed processing systems , most processing is done in the memory of the individual PCs, or the work stations. The file server or the host system becomes the central point for sharing printers or other network resources and for managing the network.
SECURITY
Security for programmers and data can be achieved using servers that
are locked through both software and physical means. Diskless nodes also
offer security by not allowing users to download important data on floppies
or upload unwanted software or virus.
EXPANDED PC usage through inexpensive workstation
Once a lan has been setup , it actually costs less to automate additional
employees through diskless PCs. Existing PCs can be easily converted into
nodes by adding network interface cards.
DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING
Many companies operate as if they had a distributed system in place.
If numerous PCs are installed around the office, these machines represent
the basic platform for a lan with inter-user communication and information
exchange.
ELECTRONIC MAIL AND MESSAGE BROADCAST
Electronic mail allows users to communicate more easily among themselves.
Each user can be assigned a MAILBOX on the server. Messages to the other
users can than be dropped into the mailbox and read by them when they log
into the network.
ORGANISATIONAL BENEFITS
Benefits of lans are numerous. These include reduced costs in computer
hardware, software and peripherals , and a drastic reduction in the time
and cost of training or retaining manpower to use the systems. In addition,
the fact that you are networked helps managers and executives to communicate
more easily and faster, without any logical constraints. Information flow
too becomes a lot smoother with various departments having the ability
to access or request for the information and data pertinent to them.
DATA MANAGEMENT BENEFITS
Since data is located centrally on a server, it becomes much easier
to manage it, as well as back it up. No file is transferred between users
through floppies.
COMPATIBILITY
A local area netw operating system must provide layer of compatibility
at the software level so that software can easily written and widely distributed.
A LAN operating system must be flexible, which means it must support a
large variety of hardware. Novell Netware is a network operating system
that can provide these features and has today become an industry standard.
INTERNETWORKING
Bridging of various networks together is one of the most important
expansion option. Users should be able to access resources form all work
stations on the bridged network in a transparent way; no special commands
should be required to cross the bridge. A hardware independent, providing
the same user interface irrespective of the hardware.
GROWTH PATH AND MODULARITY
One of the most important requirements of a lan is its modularity.
A set of PCs should get easily converted into a LAN which can grow in size
simply by adding additional workstations. If more storage is required,
one should be able to add another server. If you need to connect with a
user on another LAN, you should be able to install a bridge.
SYSTEM RELIABILITY AND MAINTENANCE
All computers are prone to system lockups, power failures and other
catastrophes. If a centralised processing system goes down, all users connected
to it are left are without a machine to work on. Hence proper installation
and prompt support is very essential in a networked environment.
For years one probably relied on THE SNEAKER NET to send the information to other people in the office or workgroups. this is how it worked, You printed a document or copied it to a floppy disk and then carried it to whosoever needed them.
If you just needed to send a note, you may have scribbled something
on a note and stuck it to the recipients table.
With the world changing at a frenetic pace, it becomes imperative
for the firms to update their information technology systems.
So come to an era of integrated systems, to the new horizons of internal communication with BICMAIL
The business environment is changing faster than ever before. Increased competition at home and abroad call for quality and effeciency. AN EFFECTIVE MEANS OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN VARIOUS LEVELS WITHIN AN ORGANISATION, AND AMONG VARIOUS WORK GROUPS WILL SERVE AS THE BACKBONE OF THE FRAME WORK- in preparing theselves for new challenges.
INTERNAL E-MAIL NETWORKING IS THE SOLUTION YOU WERE LOOKING FOR.
This can be incorporated on your existing network. So the network users
can now send electronic message from one PC to another. Electronic mail
or E-Mail for short travels rapidly, doesn't need to be printed before
it is read and can easily be incorporated into reports and documents. So
this provides a solution to improve the situation with in the organisation