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Siftens Fitness is a small, but growing company that provides health and fitness services.

The company provides a range of services including:

strength and fitness training

fitness classes including:

Yoga

Pilates

Aerobics

personal fitness training programmes

one$-$to$-$one strength and fitness sessions.

The company is currently based in a single gymnasium which includes:

an area for weight training and cardiovascular training $($e$.$g$.$ treadmills, bikes$)$

a room for fitness classes

a reception area

shower and changing facilities.

The company has seen an increase in business recently and would like to continue to

expand. To meet this demand the company will:

employ more staff

purchase two additional gymnasiums in different locations in the same town

increase their use of IT and related infrastructure

launch a new website to allow customers to reserve and manage:

fitness class bookings

training appointments.

The current IT infrastructure in all three of the gymnasiums is out of date and needs to

be replaced.

The company currently employs four people; Jim Siftens $($the owner$)$ and three trainers.

An additional $10$ people have been employed to start work when the IT upgrade

is complete. Jim currently uses a single laptop computer for all the company's IT

requirements, but this no longer meets the company's requirements.

You have been hired by Siftens Fitness as an information technology $($IT$)$ professional to

help plan how they should use IT to meet the changing needs of the company.

Table $1$ gives information on the expected needs of the company. The table includes

details of staff, key tasks to be performed and the IT requirements of the company.