Application/Web Development > Website Maintenance

The Business Need

Websites need on-going maintenance. New information such as new artists, albums, books, news items, promotions, etc needs to be added to the site regularly.

Large websites have a dedicated maintenance team to do that. However, there are countless smaller sites that do not have the luxury of such a team. The result is that many of these smaller sites are not updated regularly, and become stale and less effective.

Top

The arvato sytsems Proposition

arvato systems North America provides a cost-effective solution in the form of a website maintenance service. Benefits are:
  • Lower costs; because business Units do not have to hire additional graphics design and web development.
  • Capacity is hired in small proportions as needed.
  • Peaks in website updating activity can be accommodated easily.
  • The cost for expensive graphics design and web development hardware and software is avoided.
  • Access to in-depth technical expertise and specialists is available as needed.
  • Continuity of service; by working with the same people over time.
Top

The Service

Archiving and maintenance of all source files of the site, including graphics, web pages and code, in a professional version control system. This provides the ability to roll back to previous versions of the site and re-use graphics from a graphics library as needed. All files are accessible for access by the company at any time.

A complete development environment to maintain the site, including Windows NT, 2000 and UNIX servers and workstations, and an extensive set of database, web development and design software including Apache, Oracle, Adobe, etc.

Usage reporting of the site, showing a wealth of web traffic and usage information that is accessible for business units through a secure web-based interface.

Content updates and site maintenance per month for the site. This includes graphic design and web page design work, database work, Java coding, etcetera.

Testing and deployment of the content updates and site changes. arvato systems will deploy changes to a test environment and do preliminary testing for layout and broken links. The customer will do final testing of the changes and give sign-off for launch, at which point asNA will migrate the changes to the production environment.

It does not matter where your site is hosted, we can work with all hosting providers, or we can provide hosting for you.

Top