The architecture of Meridian Enterprise is flexible so that it can be deployed in various configurations to meet a wide range of organization sizes and requirements from small workgroups to large enterprises. Each configuration has inherent advantages and disadvantages in terms of:
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Load — from a small departmental productivity tool to a mission-critical enterprise system with many users and documents.
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Reliability — whether all components are hosted on a single server or some components are hosted by dedicated, fail-safe systems.
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Systems management — distributing components to other servers distributes administrative responsibilities correspondingly.
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Geography — whether data resides in a single vault or many vaults distributed globally.
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Functionality — from out-of-the-box basic tools to custom data structures and unique functionality.
The following topics discuss basic strategies for designing a deployment configuration and give several models from which similar configurations can be based.
