Federal Trade Commission Selects Flatirons Solutions to Perform Documentum Infrastructure Assessment

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has selected Flatirons Solutions to perform an assessment of the Documentum infrastructure that will support the FTC corporate content management repository. The repository that the FTC has implemented houses more than 200,000 of the agency's official business documents pertaining to the agency’s principal concerns: consumer protection, anti-competitive business practices, and economic analysis. This repository will be rolled out across the agency and a rapid ramp-up of usage is anticipated. Prior to the roll out, the agency must conduct an independent assessment to ensure the existing architecture would support anticipated demand. The FTC has also compiled a list of problematic technical issues impinging on functionality such as full text search, large volume transfer of data to web-based clients, and the ability to connect to the repository under load. These issues warrant further analysis and resolution. Flatirons will help the FTC fully understand the operational nature of its content management technologies and assist them in identifying and implementing proactive measures where appropriate.

Flatirons will conduct a broad-based assessment of the content management architecture and provide FTC with a set of action items which, when acted upon, will increase the likelihood of widespread adoption and acceptance of recent technological investments. As a first step, Flatirons staff will gather system and operational data required to describe FTC’s ‘as-is’ infrastructure from both an architectural and operational perspective, then perform a detailed assessment of system performance, availability, and stability. With a detailed assessment of FTC’s enterprise architecture in hand, it will be possible to formulate recommendations – from both a technical and operational perspective – which will support a successful roll-out of content management technologies across the enterprise. In addition to these recommendations, Flatirons will also produce a set of standard operating procedures (SOPs) based on industry best practices and a NIST-compliant disaster recovery plan (DRP) which will dovetail into FTC’s broader approach to disaster recovery.