Designing your content repositories

As mentioned previously, gathering both functional and non-functional requirements is important and needed to design and architect an agile content services platform. Additionally, a view of the future state of the platform is also important.

Next, you will see a list of some common focus areas and questions that will help with the overall design:

• Security:
  • Who needs access to the application and its contents?
  • Where do these users reside (internal corporate users, external contractors, or partners)?
  • Will additional users from another line of businesses or other organizations need access later on?
  • Can anyone who is authenticated be allowed to access the system or only a certain set of users or groups?
• Business data:
  • What kind of content is being stored?
  • How is content added or ingested?
  • Does the content need to be retrieved or is the data extracted and residing in the metadata?
  • If the content needs to be accessed, how will it be accessed?
  • Are...