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Legislative Branch Agency (Web Content Management Migration)

A legislative branch agency of the Federal Government struggling to work with an unsupported, obsolete web content management system (WCMS). To ensure continued maintainability of the site, migration to a supported platform and higher capacity hardware host was needed.

Customer Profile

The Problem

Website used to communicate with constituents was running on unsupported software
Hardware host used for the website was inadequate for current and future needs
Customizations to the underlying Web CMS needed to be migrated to the new software platform
Several years’ worth of accumulated content needed to be seamlessly migrated
The window for performing the migration was short (just 2 weeks)

The Solution

Performed in-depth analysis and documented current system, configuration and hardware
Developed upgrade and migration strategy aimed at improving system maintainability, performance, and long-term flexibility
Performed upgrade and migration of all existing content, CMS configurations, and customizations
Worked with legislative IT teams to install software and content on a new hardware host
Designed and planned fail-over procedures to ensure a high level of fault tolerance
Successfully completed all required work during designated timeframe

The Benefit

Thanks to this major web infrastructure upgrade, the newly migrated site is now capable of scaling to meet anticipated traffic requirements and do so in a way that is fully supportable by the legislative branch agency’s internal IT team. And by designing a set of fail over procedures capable of dealing with even the most disruptive system events, the legislative branch agency’s IT team can help to ensure that the site will enjoy a high level of availability.