Enterprise ServiceOriented Architecture and GIS

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2009 Ohio GIS Conference September 17, 2009

• Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture and GIS

Joe LaCombe System Architect Woolpert, Inc.
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Agenda

• Service Oriented Architecture
• Case Study
• Solutions
• Benefits
• Questions

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What is Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture?
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Service Oriented Architecture

• Loosely-coupled applications and components
• Web services
• Windows services
• Database procedures and processes
• Hosted or served in a central environment
• Does not care what is consuming it, just as long
  as it provides the necessary information.
• Chaining of services together to get a desired
  result.

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Case Study City of Indianapolis/Marion County

• ISAs GIS Division Mission Statement
• "Delivering professional services and decision
  support systems through robust and accurate
  spatial databases, innovative geographic
  information system applications, and strategic
  partnerships which support Indianapolis/Marion
  County government and improve the quality of life
  for all citizens." 
• GIS Division serves over 700 internal customers
  with 10 staff members, 900,000 citizens
• Since 2003, Woolpert has provided GIS development
  services
• Together, we have performed over 90 projects
  since then

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It all starts with data

• The City had already developed a mature GIS and
  Master Address Database(MAD)

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Our first projects

• Maintaining Data
• a set of tools to allow for the editing and
  maintaining of centerline and address data
  through the GIS
• have those changes reflected back into the MAD

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Using GIS Functionality

• Being savvy GIS people, the City realized that
  GIS could tie a lot of things together
• Not only a way to view information spatially
• New ways to query and analyze information

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Map based applications

• Still, the primary goal was to see the data on a
  map
• Intranet Data Viewer
• Catalog Interface

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ArcGIS Server

• Through ArcGIS Server, we could then use advanced
  ArcObjects functionality via web services
• Address Validator
• Geocode
• Point in Polygon
• return specific attributes from those features.

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Sharing GIS information

• These initial ArcGIS Server web services provided
  a new way of sharing and providing the use of GIS
  data to non-GIS systems and users
• Siebel
• Tidemark
• Hansen
• Using GIS as just another tool in the overall
  enterprise
• Provide GIS information through services

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Goals

• gIS little g, big IS
• Makes GIS Invisible To The Consumer
• Modular, Highly Reusable
• Standards-based
• Cross-platform Machine to Machine
• Adds New Capabilities To Existing Apps/Databases
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

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So, whats the result?
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Existing Applications
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ArcGIS Server Web Services and Applications
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GIS Data Manipulation Services

• Create/update GIS features based upon assets
  generated in various systems
• Siebel ? service requests
• Accela ? permits
• Hansen ? work orders
• Generic feature create, read, update, and delete
  functionality
• All originally written using SDE Java API ? just
  finished rewriting these to be .Net services
  using SDE SQL API for GIS manipulation

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System Integration and Information Management
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My Neighborhood
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My Neighborhood
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My Neighborhood

• Orchestrates GIS web services to query
  information from various layers
• View text information, but also see on map

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Business Process Automation

• Automate everyday user processes and workflows
  for managing and maintaining data
• Used to be manual processes
• Web services ? Windows Communication
  Foundation(WCF) Services and Windows Workflow
  Foundation (WF)
• As a permit is created in Accela
• As a service request is created in Siebel..
• As a work order is created in Hansen

Workflow Orchestration
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Workflow Orchestration Services

• Receive information from other applications or
  systems
• Information is formatted and pushed to other
  systems, such as the MAD
• Information from multiple systems is returned to
  calling system or user ? as they need it
• Indianapolis/Marion County Staff are potentially
  notified, such as for liquor license permits
• Use GIS services as tools to
• Select information from GIS required for calling
  system
• Create GIS data based upon information from
  calling system
• Spatially view and analyze assets
• Simply retrieve information from multiple systems
  including GIS and send back to calling
  application or system

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Accela Integration
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Accela Address/Parcel/Owner (APO) Service

• While the permit is being created within Accela

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Example Flow Diagram
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Supporting Services
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Accela Mapping Service

• After the permit is created within Accela

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Hansen Mapping Service

• After the work order/service request is created
  within Hansen

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Accela
Siebel
Hansen
Permits Process
Service Requests Process
Work Order Process
GIS
Property System
MAD
Notifications
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Current Initiatives

• SharePoint 2007 Integration and Web Parts
• Common, user specific map
• GIS Map/Report creation and subscription
• Notifications
• Initialize workflows and analyze results
• Hansen Asset Analysis
• Workflow-based websites

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Benefits

• More efficient processes Automation
• More effective sharing and use of information
• Integrate existing systems and departments
• Department of Public Works
• Mayors Action Center
• Probation Department
• Department of Metropolitan Development
• Public Safety
• Assessors
• Provide GIS technology/data to users without them
  knowing?very accurate information queried
  spatially
• Less overall development time for new
  integrations? you already have the toolset
• Enhance the quality of life
• One-stop portal for finding neighborhood
  information?gateway to other sites
• Help citizens see how safe their neighborhood is
• Automated workflows helps the service request,
  permitting, and work order processes operate
  faster, less cost involved than manual processes

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Questions?
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Contact Information

• Joe LaCombe
• System Architect
• Woolpert, Inc.
• 317-223-2264
• joe.lacombe_at_woolpert.com