A thorough assessment of your organization’s needs is key to ensuring that Filr meets expectations.
There is no absolute “one size fits all” approach for successful Filr deployments. Each organization has unique requirements, environments, resources, and project management approaches. The following sections present general best practices for ensuring a successful Filr deployment:
Stakeholder participation is key to a successful Filr deployment. Plan to involve those in your organization who are responsible for affected systems and services as early in the deployment process as possible.
Consider involving representatives from as many of the following functions as applicable in your organization:
Management
User community
Server administration
Database administration
Network administration
Directory service administration
Security administration
Write up use cases for how the people in your organization will use Filr.
For example:
Users accessing and viewing files through the Filr web client
Desktop users accessing and synchronizing files using the Filr desktop clients
Mobile app users accessing and viewing files
Some organizations have branding requirements for any interfaces that employees and others use.
For information on the branding capabilities of Filr, see Setting Up Site Branding
in the Novell Filr 1.0.1 Administration Guide.
Be sure to assess your organization’s business requirements first, then define the technical requirements for meeting the business objectives. Project stakeholder input can be extremely valuable in this process.
Discuss what is happening within the organization on the file-access and file-sharing fronts.
Identify key business drivers:
Is there a need to make corporate data available via mobile devices?
Is desktop access required as well?
What types of data does the organization need to expose?
Are you planning to allow storage and access to personal data?
Is there a need to share internally?
Is there a need to share externally? If so, are there any policies that apply?
Are there compliance and regulatory standards that must be met?