Deployment roles and responsibilities

After you understand how Contribute fits into your organization, it’s important to understand the various roles involved in deploying Contribute.

As a system or website administrator, you play a large part in deploying Contribute. The deployment responsibilities include the following tasks (for a complete list, see Deployment tasks checklist):

• Installing the Contribute software.

• Creating connections to websites that users of Contribute can access.

• Defining roles (a collection of privileges that you assign to specific users).

• Installing Contribute on individual computers throughout your organization.

• (Optional) Integrating Contribute with Contribute Publishing Server (CPS).

  The size of your organization and the job roles associated with your organization’s websites determine who assumes responsibility for deployment. A single system administrator may be responsible for all deployment, or other members of the organization’s web team or IT staff may be involved.

  If you are a system administrator, this might be your first time to work with web pages and web content. Your role as a system administrator may intersect with the role of web designer.

  The following table describes the function of each role that relates to Contribute:

  Role	Function
  Contribute administrator	Responsible for installing Contribute, setting up user roles and privileges, and determining the degree to which users can access and update websites. Contribute administrators are often members of an organization’s IT staff, responsible for maintaining server and network infrastructure, managing user and file permissions across an organization’s network.
  System administrator	Maintains web servers and web server access. This role often overlaps with that of the Contribute administrator and may be handled by the same person in smaller organizations.
  Web designer	Designs websites, determining their look and feel, and creates and maintains the site’s content.
  Web developer	Develops web-based applications, such as for absence reporting and financial reporting, distributed to users over the web.
  Contribute user	Contribute users range widely in their job tasks and computer experience. What they have in common is the need to update web page content quickly and easily. Using Contribute, they can easily connect to a website and safely update its content without inadvertently introducing malfunctions.

  These roles vary from organization to organization. In smaller organizations and workgroups, a single person may handle the job of administering Contribute and determining the design of the website. Larger workgroups and departments may have a team of people involved in maintaining their website.