In the net age, it is particularly difficult to keep things up and running. The Internet is comprised of many services including the World Wide Web, email, FTP, Gopher, and many others. Intranets are internally deployed networks and systems based on the adaptation of Internet technologies and protocols. Organizations must scale up the enterprise, providing knowledge workers to write content, programmers to convert the content to HTML, technicians to run the web server, and strategists who understand the overall structure and intent of the site. If the project is a public web site, product marketing folks must get involved to manage corporate style and image issues.
Automation is crucial to ensure success.
These tools enable organizations to perform version change for web server content. Because someone has filed a lawsuit over content they believe was available on your site. The workflow for the entire change process can be automated, including interspersing manual steps with automatic steps, checking links, and testing for security holes. Performance and availability are potentially huge problems. We're all aware that the very page that took five seconds to load this morning can take ten minutes this afternoon.