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Implementing CSPA compliant guidelines

to describe identified generic business needs

Eurostat – Unit B3 - IT for Statistical ProductionHubertus Cloodt

WS Modernization of Statistical production (15-17 April 2015) - Geneva

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To share experiences being made in a CSPA based project

at Eurostat;

A cooperation between EA team and IS architecture team to

define a standardised way for describing business needs

using CSPA as the driver…

Objective

CSPA certified

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basecamp

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The instrument….

Work in

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An example – CSPA from theory to practice

• • How such an instrument can be implemented in an organisation and improve collaboration between business and technology.

• • How it could be used to carry out certification of a service definition and to have the service definition registered in the CSPA service catalogue.

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Situation…

Work in progress for modernising the production of statistics is sometimes perceived as vague, difficult, doesn’t concern me, a burden for my daily work…

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So some concrete actions defined…

1. Develop guidelines for describing service definitions

2. Proof of Concept of first services implemented in a SOA following the guidelines

3. Set up governance for day to day usage, incl. Catalogue

A first set of “tools”, CSPA compliant,to raise awareness and increase clarity inside Eurostat .

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Guidelines basis:

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• Document identified generic business needs in a standardised way

• CSPA V1.0 compliant• EC DG DIGIT service modelling

complaint• 3 templates:

1. Definition (conceptual)2. Specification (logical)3. Implementation(s) (physical)

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Implementation - Usage

• Case by case, depending on requests of business units (Business driven - ex. project « lowering the entry barrier for SDMX implementations»)

• Final version to become a standard annexe to the official documents describing development work that is being outsourced

• Redesign of existing software solutions(IT driven - IT rationalisation strategy)

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Service Certification „in the house“

• Front office to be coordinator with business analysts, regular meetings

• Service proposals to be presented to official committee IT/business

• Services agreed to be developed by unit IT for statistical production

But….

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How to manage these service descriptions?

• Obviously storage in a CSPA service catalogue is the goal

• Unfortunately the CSPA catalogue lacks some functionality here: categories, hierarchies, local services,…

• To be considered is the implementation of a network of CSPA compliant catalogues

• CSPA service catalogue would become more powerfull and sustainable when moving towards a different IS architecture

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CSPA certified

• These actions are small steps only, but they give CSPA a « face » in Eurostat

• Modernisation of the statistical productionprocess is a big challenge, especially for the production engines dealing with the core part of the process

• Governance need to be well definedotherwise failure is fact

• Transitions of system components, staff roles and responsabilities, need to be prepared in detail

• CSPA and the future ESS EA reference architectureare a good basis to start.

Continuing the climb:

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How to manage these service descriptions?

• Obviously storage in the (or a) CSPA service catalogue is the goal

CSPA supports you to see the bigger picture!

Thank you!