From Red to Green: the role of Enterprise Architecture in the ONS Corporate IT Strategy

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From Red to Green the role of Enterprise
Architecture in the ONS Corporate IT Strategy
Simon Field Chief Technology Officer
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The Big Picture
Metrics
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Business Functions and Operation
Business Surveys
MLD
Further Analysis
Demo-graphy
NeSS
Geo-graphy
Corp. Services
Dissem-ination
Social Surveys
Census
Systems and Datastores
SAS
Open-Road
ABF
SuperCross
Uniface
Clipper
Blaise
J2EE
Foxpro
Visual Basic
ESRI
Citrix
Notes
SPSS
Excel
Excel
Ingres
M204
Blaise
Clipper
Oracle 7
Foxpro
MS SQL
Oracle
Infrastructure
Z-Series
Desktop
Numa
P-Series
Wintel Server
Sun
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Business Functions and Operation
Business Surveys
MLD
Geo-graphy
Further Analysis
NeSS
Corp. Services
Dissem-ination
Social Surveys
Demo-graphy
Census
Systems and Datastores
SAS
Open-Road
SuperCross
ABF
Blaise
J2EE
ESRI
Citrix
Notes
Visual Basic
SPSS
Excel
Tridion
Ingres
M204
MS SQL
Oracle
Infrastructure
Z-Series
Desktop
P-Series
Wintel Server
Linux
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In general, the ability of ONS to adapt and
respond to change is limited by its IT, rather
than being facilitated by it.
Corporate IT Strategy
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A business oriented strategy
Statistical Operations
Dissemination
Collection
Statistical Tools
Communications
Communications
Finance and Planning
Corporate Services
Human Resources
Information Management
Technical Services
Methodology
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Guiding Principles

• Five high-level principles
• Reusability
• Integrability
• Sustainability
• Corporate Asset
• Security

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Guiding Principles
Re-use Integra-bility Sustain-ability Corporate Asset Security
To provide authoritative, timely, and accessible statistics and analysis that impact on decision-making across UK society, anticipate needs and support public accountability ü ü
to be a trusted and leading supplier of national government statistical expertise and surveys ü ü
To maintain a dynamic portfolio of statistical sources which reflect changing data needs ü
To deliver the sources portfolio in a way which meets user expectations of quality, within the available resources ü ü
To minimise the burden on respondents for all survey collection ü ü
To adapt rapidly to changing demands through flexibility in our people and systems, and the reinvesting of resources through efficiency, innovation, and methodology and technical improvements ü ü ü ü
To identify social and technological change that will impact on what we do and how we do it ü ü ü
Strategic Aims
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Architecture Reviews

• Developed from ATAM (SEI, Carnegie Mellon)
• Evaluate solution options towards end of Solution
  Shaping phase (prior to development of
  Feasibility Report)
• Relates prioritise business requirements to
  Quality Attributes
• Trade-off analysis of risk to requirements for
  each solution option
• Assessment of compliance with Architecture
  Guiding Principles
• Follow-up review during Analysis and Design
  phase.

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Architectural Standards

• Architectural bricks
• Categorised over time
• Strategic, Tolerated, Retiring, Not in use, To be
  considered

Database Management Systems Statistical
Tools Application Servers Web Servers Search Repor
ting Tools Storage Web Content Management Encrypti
on
Server Operating Systems Desktop Operating
Systems Service Bus / Messaging Directory Document
Management ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) Email
calendaring Development tools
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Measuring our progress
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The ONS Board fully endorses this strategy. It
is driven by ONS corporate aims and objectives to
take us into the future.

• Karen Dunnell
• National Statistician