Agency Platform Websites
The Agency Platform delivers a streamlined, secure, and well-developed website for state agencies. Out of the box, the Agency Platform allows content creators to easily add informative and relevant content. Agency Platform Websites is a shared service to help Arizona State agencies focus on creating great content rather than building systems to deliver that content.
About
What problems it solves
The Agency Platform provides agencies with a quick, low cost solution for building an online presence to meet business needs. It is flexible, responsive, and visually appealing while maintaining high standards for security and accessibility. Agency Platform customers are provided with an out-of-the-box experience without having to invest IT resources in building, hosting or maintaining their websites.
What the Service provides
- Easy to create websites that are mobile-enabled with responsive design
- Full multimedia capabilities
- Choice of three predefined color schemes
- Integration with social networking to let your content reach your audiences where they are
- Choose to be hosted as YOURSITE.az.gov or to use your own URL
- Web-based platform so you can make changes from any web-browser, anywhere
- Policy-compliant (security, privacy, and 508)
- Search optimized theme
- Pre-established development, test, and production environments
- Multi-data center failover for high availability
- Server upsizing for planned and unplanned increases in site traffic
- Dedicated development/testing instances available for agency use.
- 24x7x365 platform, infrastructure, and application monitoring
- Active defense including DOS protection, Layer 7 firewalls, and attack response teams
- No downtime for security updates and resizing
Benefits of this Service
- Reduced costs and time to launch a new website
- Security updates made regularly
- 99.9% Website uptime
- Single Sign-On Integration using Okta
- Leveraging common state assets to deliver streamlined content
- 24x7x365 Security Monitoring
- Quality Assurance and Accessibility tools and monitoring
*Note: ADOA-ASET provides maintenance and support for the platform, Drupal core and the modules and themes that comprise the Agency Platform. Maintenance of contributed or customer modules and themes that are not part of the Agency Platform Distribution will need to either have a support agreement with the developing vendor, or can be performed on a time and materials basis as part of a statement of work.
In order to provide our customers with exceptional service and quickly implement minor changes, ADOA-ASET may determine that enhancements and feature requests that can be implemented in less than two hours billable time will be provided at ADOA-ASET expense.