Applied Scenario: Flowers and Elephants

Fancy Flowers is a florist supply company. They have two offices, one in London and another in Sydney. The buyers are based in London and the flower suppliers in Sydney. When the flowers bloom, the suppliers upload photos of examples to the Fancy Flowers SharePoint portal called the Daisy Chain. Buyers in London open the images and place orders to buy the flowers.

This is the core business benefit of SharePoint to the company. It is essential to the buyers that the images open quickly. The buyers are currently complaining the photos are taking too long to open and this is seriously impacting their ability to order flowers quickly while they are still fresh. The photographs have to be high resolution; the ...

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