Collecting requirements
Planning for Content Manager OnDemand requires that you understand how the system will be deployed, who will use the system and how users will use it, and other requirements.
About this task
Answers to the following questions provide information
that allows you to properly configure your Content Manager OnDemand system, including the storage
and network configuration, to support your applications and users:
- Will you operate a single Content Manager OnDemand server or a network of Content Manager OnDemand servers?
- What is the logical organization of the print data streams?
- Page organization: a consistent stream of pages of transaction or ledger data.
- Logical groups of information, such as statements or policies.
- Data that might not have a consistent format, such as reference materials or product literature.
- Will Content Manager OnDemand support short-term report management, long-term archival storage, or both?
- What is the volume of input to process? How large are your reports (in pages and bytes); how many reports; how many versions of reports?
- What index values do the users of a report need to retrieve a specific version of a report (or a document)?
- How much time is available to load reports into Content Manager OnDemand? Daily? Weekly?
- How long do you plan to maintain report data on the system?
- How many concurrent, logged-on users do you anticipate on average; at peak times?
- How many active users do you anticipate?
- What is the transaction rate of the active users?