XPAND Joins Fight Against Swine Flu
Reston, Virginia - August 2009
XPAND Corporation was awarded a contract to design, develop, and host a Content Management System (CMS) for a U.S. Federal agency.
Our client needed a secure, efficient, and reliable way for researchers, developers, and public health officials to access repositories of influenza viruses (including influenza viruses that could pose a pandemic risk), test kits, and other reagents approved for laboratories. It was expected that a production version of the website, a content-management enabled portal, be operational within 90 days of the contract award.
Collaborating with our client, XPAND Corporation gathered both functional and technical requirements, and performed analysis using a modified Agile methodology with a strict configuration management process.
To fulfill the requirement that the portal be content-management enabled, XPAND investigated a number of commercially available Content Management System (CMS) to address the needs and requirements of our client. The team compared, analyzed, and evaluated a number of CMS platform and determined that the open-source DotNetNuke (DNN) was the best solution for the project.
By improving the accessibility, it is expected that diagnostic tests, antiviral drugs and vaccines will be commercially available sooner. This will be extremely beneficial given the recent global outbreak of the H1N1 virus and the declaration by the World Health Organization as a swine flu pandemic.