Support for Management. Companies should consider what management tools and development and deployment processes exist internally today and what is planned for the future. An information architecture should provide the tools necessary for configuration, deployment and management of the information architecture. It should also address dominant interfaces such as LDAP, Microsoft MMC, SNMP and more. Support for security.
Security is a major concern, both internally and for external e- business systems.
Security issues include authorization, authentication and privacy. Additionally, there are a multitude of approaches and competing technologies to deal with security. Evaluating Information Architectures Predictability. As a company's Web site becomes more active and the load increases, the performance needs to scale with the growth. In designing and testing an information architecture, companies should consider stress tests that will help them determine the predictability of the solution.