問題文
Six hundred seasonal staff need read access to two standard objects for three months each year. One option is to license them, another is to deliver the same information through scheduled reports and a shared dashboard. How should the architect frame this decision?
選択肢
- Decide on the number of users alone: below a few hundred users licensing is always cheaper, and above that number the data should be delivered by scheduled reports and dashboards instead, regardless of what those users actually need to do with the records themselves.
- Weigh the recurring license cost against the one off and ongoing cost of the design that avoids it, and prefer the design change only where the substitute genuinely meets the requirement rather than approximating it.
- Always buy the licenses, because any design that delivers data to a person who is not licensed breaks the terms under which the platform is sold, so the six hundred seasonal staff are licensed for the three months and released again afterwards.
- Always choose the design change, because licenses are a recurring cost while design work is not, so the scheduled reports and the shared dashboard are the right answer whenever a group of people needs to read something for part of the year.