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Week Four: Project Implementation
The ENPS newsroom system is designed to be implemented in a quick and efficient manner. The ENPS design is based on achieving maximum productivity in the least amount of time utilizing the least amount of resources. Being an off-the-shelf product with limited customization capability or necessity, ENPS is essentially a turn-key solution for a news organizations basic functionality. Implementing the ENPS news system provided an operational system in a very short time period with very few technical problems.
Being an off-the-shelf solution, ENPS was delivered to WXTY as a boxed program packaged with technical documentation and installation CDs. The program was delivered complete and ready to run at version 6.2.14 indicating there have been many version releases prior to delivery. Having been a loyal Associated Press (AP) Newscenter customer and involved in its beta testing, I had the utmost confidence in the stability of the delivered product and its ability to provide the service that was requested and required. After reviewing the provided documentation and assuring the news department that all necessary steps had been provided for, the testing procedure began.
With such a major system upgrade creating a secure testing environment was necessary. The installation and upgrade would involve the complete removal and re-installation of the physical network in the newsroom. Having already upgraded the entire server operating system for WXTY in the previous months, the initial pre-requisite of Windows Server 2003 had already been achieved and tested to acceptable levels of reliability. Building upon the established network, a test environment was developed in the news ...