How to identify and categorize your branch offices

By Robin Gareiss, Network World, 12/12/05

One of the most important strategies of effective branch-office management is simply knowing what you’re managing. It sounds pretty basic, but many IT executives haven’t identified and categorized their branch-office inventories.

As I outlined last week , Nemertes has identified the branch-office market as a four-tier structure - including headquarters it’s a five-tier structure: