Penang engineering smart-support

Achieving greater efficiencies in productivity and smart approach of information technology (IT) to fulfill the business needs in a company is always important issues, especially in a challenging research and development (R&D) environment. Today, the need of electronically accessing information and sharing information in a group of people is a must in organization. These needs are important for the peoples to work more efficiency and productivity. This paper is to illustrate the smart approaches taken by CTDG Penang engineering computing supporting total Penang R&D users. These approaches mainly will concentrate more on Windows environment with the implementation of features available using Microsoft Windows 2000 Server operating system. In these paper we will discuss further more on the challenges that GTDG Penang R&D Center facing in Windows base environment, the smart approach by implementation of Microsoft Windows 2000 server, the impact of the implementation to R&D users and the benefits of implementing Microsoft Windows 2000 server achieved through better security, manageability, users support and uptime.