How to understand the corporate network and the task of the teacher?

Question

Computer networks

Hello.
Seeking any help from the whole group of sophomores.
There was such discipline as Corporate information systems. At the first couples, they were given a task until the end of the semester. I quote "to rivet a corporate network". Separate, take each department like the personnel department, accounting, procurement, etc., and make something out of this all together, incomprehensibly how and incomprehensibly what. The teacher seems to require some kind of software for each and, accordingly, the connection between these departments.
No idea what where and how, no one has.
In which direction to move? What to read? What to teach? What can be and how to present as a result in such a task?

Answer 1

O! What a good job! Truth!
1) Start by describing these departments and what information they share.
For example, the accounting department:
- sits in 1C, prepares invoices and invoices,
- receives data by mail or from general file sharing
- gives data by mail or courier after printing
- corporate mail is needed, access to contracts via the enterprise network (or to the document management system), planning tools (calendar or ticket system)
- you need the Internet for cats
2) After you have described all the departments, draw up a flowchart of interaction.
3) According to the flowchart, select software, determine the types of access
4) Based on the block diagram, draw a diagram of the physical and logical network, select equipment, and define physical access policies.
Well, I think that this will be enough for the whole course.
PS. Well, for workflow (and you have it!), Consider immediately a system like www.redmine.org (free). It pulls very large enterprises with a staff of several thousand people. We implemented it about a year ago. The entire document flow on it, this is a system of applications, and purchases, and tickets, and calendars, and project management.
Sorry, I can’t provide screenshots, as well as the name of the office (this is one of the factories for the production of microcircuits).

Answer 2

Oooh, here's the challenge. Let me shake your teacher's paw :D
Where to start? At first. The corporate network is not a cow in a vacuum - it solves the applied problems of the corporation it serves. Therefore, start by coming up with an office that will deal with ... well, let's say breeding crocodiles at home and selling them to lovers :) Make an organizational structure - you will definitely need a sales department, a supply department, a biological one (which will actually work with crocodiles) , accounting, logistics - a crocodile is not a balloon, he will not float through the air, administrators, lawyers - to fight off angry greens and neighbors, etc.
Define business processes - who transfers what to whom in terms of information and when you have a ready-made information exchange scheme - bring it to life. You will also need an internal document database - not necessarily 1C, but most likely it will be it, and corporate mail and access to tyrnet, and a tracker for solving operational problems, and access control - so that you don’t go where you don’t need to ...

Answer 3

Perhaps what you need) An excellent series of articles with theory and practice, for your topic.
https://habrahabr.ru/post/134892/

Answer 4

the result of the work should be, for example, a CRM system with the provided network infrastructure, the
main software components, an antivirus, office programs, an operating system, and some kind of file washer)