September 28, 2006 - Fairfax, VA

US Marine Corps Awards InfoReliance Marines.Mil Contract

Fairfax, Virginia – September 28, 2006 - InfoReliance Corporation, a leading Northern Virginia information technology firm, today announced that the Marine Corps Systems Command (MARCORSYSCOM) has selected InfoReliance Corporation, to provide web-based portal services to complete the design, implementation, and data load for a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 07) portal-based web environment that serves the USMC publicly accessible application provisioning environment.

Today nearly every sizeable organization within the Marine Corps has its own public web site, giving the Marine Corps over 400 independent public faces—80 of which contributed to the main web site run by the Public Affairs Office at Marine Corps Headquarters. Each of these organizations has its own policy about content, its own approval process, and its own web site design. The lack of a common suite of tools has been burdensome to the organizations within the Marine Corps because they each had to have their own experts in web technology to create and publish those web sites. It was also confusing to the public, because there was no overall consistency in the information, the presentation, the look and feel, or the user interface.

The Marine Corps Systems Command turned to InfoReliance Corporation for a solution to each of these issues: Marines.mil

Marines.mil will gradually consolidate each of the various Marine Corps organizations’ public web sites as subordinate sites under a single main web site and standardize their look and feel. It will also give content providers an automated workflow for reviewing, editing, and approving information before it goes live. The web-based front end with, What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editing capability, and the automated workflow, will eliminate the need for the field organizations to have expertise in information technology. Instead of managing the technology, they can concentrate on managing the information.

Marines.mil’s SharePoint 2007 enterprise portal information system can presently handle over 350,000 page views and 1.5 million hits per day. Since the configuration makes use of clusters and server farms, it is inherently scalable. The Marine Corps can increase its capacity by adding servers.

“With Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and its content management capabilities we will be able to deliver a solution to the Marine Corps that automates their workflow for creating, approving, and publishing public information to a consolidated web site.” —Andrew Butler, President, InfoReliance Corporation

# # #

InfoReliance Corporation is a specialized information technology (IT) consulting firm whose principal customer is the federal government. Our highly focused mission is to solve our customer's complex business problems and provide them with optimal and sustainable business value. InfoReliance accomplishes this by leveraging our corporate expertise in the development of world-class software and in the design and implementation of the supporting IT infrastructure and security. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, InfoReliance is a privately-held small business founded in 2000. Customers who have retained InfoReliance's services to date include more than 30 defense and federal civilian agencies and departments.