This section is intended to be used by experienced Information Technology Professionals. An intermediate-to-advanced understanding of technical architecture is assumed. This is a guide but does not address all situations. Consult your implementation team or your Stibo Systems representative for further information.
This section describes the architecture of STEP and addresses the following questions that are vital for successful implementation of the Master Data Management (MDM) solution:
- What options allow STEP to integrate with other systems in the infrastructure?
- What issues must be considered before making final decisions about fundamental topics, such as hardware, network design, backup and recovery, clustering, and security?
- What is required to maintain a STEP installation that is fail-safe and scalable, and that behaves in a predictable manner even in a worst-case scenario?
- What are the recommended procedures for keeping the STEP software and any third-party software, up to date?
Architecture Elements
For more information, refer to the following topics:
- Architecture Layout (here)
- Integration (here)
- Storing Asset Content Externally (here)
- Business Process Management (here)
- Clustering (here)
- High Availability Implementation (here)
- Network Consideration (here)
- Security (here)
Additionally, platform and software support is addressed for each release. For example, refer to the 11.1 Platform and Software Support topic within the System Release and Patch Notes / Platform and Software Support documentation.