Network printers and faxes help companies of all sizes reduce the amount of hardware around the office by sharing one printer between many individuals, or the convenience of faxing documents directly from every computer in your organization. Using simple strategies such as these promotes productivity and decreases costs involved with purchasing, configuring, and maintaining equipment.

The computer backbone, network and network services such as electronic mail, are provided to the departments and users with central corporate coordination, overview, and directional support. Support for specialized applications of hardware and software within departments, as defined by specialized Accounting, Sales, Division or Departmental end-user and program needs, may require individual departmental training and maintenance support. Centralized call technical support through a "Help Desk" is available that can direct responses from the most appropriate source.

Shared data and services should  have a common interface that relies on industry standards to allow organization-wide access. Organization-wide interface maintenance and data access should be coordinated between the administrative and academic units. Centralized administrative data files should be managed and made available through administrative computing. These will be made available to Client units as needed for updating management files and coordinating corporate-wide needs.

Pertinent data files, management and information resources will be made available corporate wide through the appropriate support personnel and departments. Data security will be managed to provide the same degree of protection for electronic data that would be provided for the same hard copy/written information