Achievements in Enterprise GIS Status in Pennsylvania and the State SDI

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Achievements in Enterprise GISStatus in
Pennsylvania and the State SDI
NSGIC Annual Conference 2007 Madison, WI

• Pennsylvania Geospatial Technologies Office
• Jim Knudson
• Stacey White
• Slides available at ftp//ftp.state.pa.us/pub/geo
  spatial

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Enterprise GIS Utah, MD, PA

• Utah existing GIO, working closely with State
  CIO
• MD acting GIO, working closely with Governor,
  State CIO transition at this time
• PA coordinator and Geospatial Technologies
  Office Director, working closely with Governors
  Office and State CIO

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Enterprise GT/GIS Relationships in PA

• Executive Order assigns IT and Geospatial primacy
  to Office of Administration, Office for
  Information Technology
• Communities of Practice (CoP)
• Created 4 IT lines of business
• Environmental
• Health and Human Services
• Public Safety
• General Government Operations
• GTO reviews all geospatial investments gt 100K
• Starting IT Consolidation
• GT/GIS impacts are unknown

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Enterprise GT/GIS Relationships in PA

• Governors Office supports the Geospatial
  Technologies Office
• Governor is in 2nd Term - Significant Executive
  leadership changes occurring
• New Secretary of Administration
• New CTO
• New CIO coming - State CIOs last day was last
  Friday
• 4th OHS and PEMA Directors in 4 years
• Retirements across the Enterprise
• Lost one of our biggest supporters to Arkansas,
  their gain
• Continue to reestablish geospatial relationships

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Enterprise GT/GIS Relationships in PA

• Former State CIO is now Interim CIO while
  nationwide search for a new CIO is conducted
• Just finished a year-long CIO review process and
  GTO is now institutionalized in Office of
  Administration
• GTO Organization Formed, 5 new staff coming
• Very process and prioritization oriented - SLAs,
  SOPs, Change Management, demand and time
  management

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Continuing State SDI Progress

• Lots of geospatial progress made in the last 4
  years
• PAMAP
• Statewide Imagery
• Statewide LiDAR
• Governance
• State Agency Governance Committees Policy and
  Technical
• Pending Statewide Geospatial Council Legislation
• Geospatial Standards
• PA Geospatial Data Sharing Standards 2.5
• GIS Software Standards
• Metadata Standards
• Enterprise Architecture
• Geospatial Enterprise Server Architecture

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Continuing State SDI Progress

• Statewide Geospatial Council
• Statewide Geospatial Council legislation
  introduced
• The Administration advocates for the formation of
  a statewide geospatial advisory council by
  Executive Order rather than legislation
• Multi-jurisdictional, representative of
  Commonwealth stakeholders
• To avoid duplication of existing and successful
  enterprise programs
• To leverage existing areas of expertise and
  knowledge
• To ensure that the statewide geospatial advisory
  council goals align with the goals and priorities
  of all stakeholders

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Enterprise SDI Architecture

• Geospatial Enterprise Server Architecture (GESA)
• Sophisticated, fault tolerant, high availability
  architecture
• Serves Governmental organizations
• Leverages Commonwealths Mission Critical
  computing environment
• Enterprise Geospatial Database
• Geospatial Application Hosting Environment
• Address verification and geocoding web services
• Geospatial applications and web services
• Citrix-based ArcGIS License Pool

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Geospatial Enterprise Server Architecture (GESA)

• Enterprise Geospatial Database centralized,
  most agencies not ready for OGC compatible
  distributed database services yet
• Comprised of data that should be shared
• Currently 600 data assets
• State Agency GIS data
• Statewide Imagery Data
• Enterprise Data Licenses TANA, Places2Protect,
  iMapData
• Real-Time Weather (AWS and Meteorlogix)
• New data loaded daily

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Geospatial Enterprise Server Architecture (GESA)

• Enterprise Geospatial Application Hosting
  Environment
• Hosts all GTO applications
• Hosts several other agency applications
• Implements clustering and load balancing
  strategies for maximum performance and hardware
  redundancy

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Geospatial Enterprise Server Architecture
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Enterprise SDI Architecture

• State Geospatial Clearinghouse (PASDA)
• 10 years of Commonwealth service - PSU
• Public Data Access
• Metadata support
• Commonwealths NSDI/GOS Node
• Supporting GTO/PEMA for emergency events in the
  Commonwealth
• Hardening server architecture to make it high
  availability
• Expanding storage to support 10 Terabytes of
  PAMAP Imagery and LiDAR data

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State SDI Architecture Evolution

• Technology Side Supported by CIO and IT org
• Disaster Recovery Solution implement best
  practices for DR, leverage available resources
• Geospatial Web Services geoprocessing engines
• Federated GIS distributed county data sources,
  spatial ETL, on the fly edge-matching, regional
  data servers
• Geodatabase replication if agencies concur,
  their data in the enterprise geospatial database
  could automatically update PASDA database to
  share agency data with the public and refresh
  data more often
• Base Software Upgrades painful in a large
  architecture like GESA, regression testing of all
  applications, web services, and mapping services
  ESRI 9.2, Oracle 10g R2

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State SDI Architecture Evolution

• Softer side Improved by working with CIO
• Process maturity After Action Reports, SOPs,
  SLAs, etc.
• Institutionalize GT/GIS operations within all IT
  operations
• Standards
• Database standards projection, naming
  conventions
• Define and implement GESA application development
  standards avoid performance and maintenance
  issues
• Communications are key to success, lack of
  communications will lead to failure
• Be ready when the opportunity arises (MD)
• Faceless IT/GT depersonalize the job and
  communications
• Be ready and open to evolve the only constant
  thing in IT and GT is change

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Enterprise GIS Lessons Learned

• Straight from the CIO
• You guys are doing great work, keep it up
• Work smarter, not harder
• Define processes before offering any new services
• Stick to your processes and your prioritization
  they will save you in any situation
• Live within your resources (demand management)
• Define a vision and work to implement it
• Relationships trump technology (Eric-ism)

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