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Government Content Management

The United States government is the largest producer of content in the world, as well as one of the most extensive publishers. Numerous drives for efficiencies have produced initiatives spanning across all branches of government to include the Paperwork Reduction Act, eGov, HIPAA, Department of Defense mandates for electronic publishing and record keeping, and shared search/retrieve demands within the Intelligence Community. The government’s need for content management technologies is urgent. In many forums XML – one Content Management technology - has been established as the recommended if not required format. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has established XML as the document archival format and the Intelligence Community has also established XML for content interoperability. XML, or eXtensible Markup Language, allows automated processing and handling of content and information exchange of otherwise disparate data content. It also enables the rendering of one content source to several outputs formats (e.g. print, wireless, html), providing for re-use and re-purposing, and allowing data sources to adhere to their own specific format or legacy tool.

Content management and XML are Flatirons’ core competencies. Through the experience of our senior staff and the breadth of our contract base, we have garnered content management experience across a wide range of domains and lifecycle phases - from front-end business analyses to development, deployment, and support. Major publishers such as McGraw-Hill, Wolters Kluwer, and IEEE have turned to Flatirons for complex publishing and content management solutions. Flatirons also supports a large number of clients whose primary business is not publishing, who leverage content management for increased business efficiencies. Our close collaboration with clients, domain-specific methodology, and in-depth experience with Content Management Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) products allow us to excel in this area.

Our experts have designed and implemented commercial CM solutions for organizations as diverse as Alticor, Cott Beverages, Visa, Xerox, McGraw-Hill, and John Deere. Leveraging these commercial best practices, we have provided CM innovative solutions for government clients such as the Department of the Treasury, Patent and Trademark Office, Army Corps of Engineers, and Bureau of Land Management.

Flatirons has applied its extensive content management experience to engineer our SourceOnce™ methodology. SourceOnce combines best practices developed providing solutions to Fortune 500 clients with recognized Government System Lifecycle Development (SDLC) processes to produce truly innovative government solutions. Our standard engineering and management procedures comply with recommended practices for Level 3 of the Software Engineering Institute’s (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM) and International Standards Organization (ISO) 9000 standards.