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Governance on Site Factory
This page provides Site Factory-specific information relating to our Acquia platform governance recommendations.
To better ensure your success with Site Factory, you should implement platform governance practices, which can help you and your organization ensure you build, architect, and maintain your platform in a sustainable manner. Platform governance is a decision-making framework that enables your organization to assign ownership, set priorities, and define shared guidelines, standards, and processes for all platform users.
As you review our general, product-agnostic governance strategy documentation to prepare your product implementation plans, be sure to also incorporate the Site Factory-specific features described on this webpage.
Before you determine the most appropriate configuration for your organization, familiarize yourself with the Site Factory platform’s layers, and the facets of each layer that you should consider when developing your governance plan.
Acquia offers workshops and customized assistance in planning your organization’s governance strategy. For details, contact your Account Manager.
When determining what needs your platform will serve, you should examine the websites you intend to migrate to your platform to determine their common needs. These needs can be grouped into the following categories:
Your planning should focus on identifying common, reusable features that will be useful to all websites on your platform, instead of identifying one-off needs for specific websites.
You should not begin your platform development until you have defined your profile (glossary term, activate to view definition) architecture. Developing without a plan increases both cost and the likelihood of architectural mistakes that must be undone later, costing your organization time and money.
The platform layer is the core upon which your entire platform is built. You should select stable, feature-rich technologies that enable you to extend and customize features instead of forcing you to work around limitations later as your needs grow:
Building on the platform layer, the back end layer extends the platform with additional features and customizations. Although organizations can have different functionality needs, the following items are common:
robots.txt, sitemap.xml, and schema filesYour front-end layer includes your content, its formatting, and its layout. This layer will involve, but is not limited to, the following criteria:
After identifying your needs in each of the layers, you can determine which profile configuration meets your needs.
After reviewing the layers of your platform, you are ready to determine the best profile configuration for your organization. Some common profile configurations in Site Factory are as follows:
For additional, in-depth information about creating a governance strategy, see Planning your governance strategy.
Acquia offers workshops and customized assistance in planning your organization’s governance strategy. For details, contact your Account Manager.
When determining what needs your platform will serve, you should examine the websites you intend to migrate to your platform to determine their common needs. These needs can be grouped into the following categories:
Your planning should focus on identifying common, reusable features that will be useful to all websites on your platform, instead of identifying one-off needs for specific websites.
You should not begin your platform development until you have defined your profile (glossary term, activate to view definition) architecture. Developing without a plan increases both cost and the likelihood of architectural mistakes that must be undone later, costing your organization time and money.
The platform layer is the core upon which your entire platform is built. You should select stable, feature-rich technologies that enable you to extend and customize features instead of forcing you to work around limitations later as your needs grow:
Building on the platform layer, the back end layer extends the platform with additional features and customizations. Although organizations can have different functionality needs, the following items are common:
robots.txt, sitemap.xml, and schema filesYour front-end layer includes your content, its formatting, and its layout. This layer will involve, but is not limited to, the following criteria:
After identifying your needs in each of the layers, you can determine which profile configuration meets your needs.
After reviewing the layers of your platform, you are ready to determine the best profile configuration for your organization. Some common profile configurations in Site Factory are as follows:
For additional, in-depth information about creating a governance strategy, see Planning your governance strategy.
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