Your business processes should run like a well oiled machine…

UKITA Shropshire – Wellington – 21st July 2009 – Roger Greenhalgh

This well-oiled machine is the humble Peugeot 404

Workhorse of developing nations for over 30 yearsWorkhorse of developing nations for over 30 years

Product of the mighty Peugeot giant

It has systems which carry out critical processes:

• Braking…

It has systems which carry out critical processes:

• Transmission…

It has systems which carry out critical processes:

• Ignition…

But support contracts end…

and some features just don’t scale…

So how might one plan to enable changes and upgrades to its systems ?

Often systems need changing or updating on the go…

Without scarce components, major re-skilling or special tools…

How would you construct a capable machine that you could easily swap out

or upgrade critical systems in?

Why can you do this…

…and this…

…and this…

…and this…

…with these?

Why can’t I catch a train from Waterloo to Beijing?

Standards, standards, standards…

e.g. OpenDocument Formats

UK academic Spatial Data

© 2004 Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.

Data Data Data Data

Web Services

• e.g. www.gogeo.ac.uk

What's a service oriented approach?

See: http://www.e-framework.org/

www.nationalrural.org website

RSS / ATOM /XCRI / XML data feeds : inbound and outbound

bulk email updates

WorkflowBusiness logic layer

Presentation layer

Data access layer

Data storage layer

AD providerSQL provider

MS Windows file storage

SQL2005 database

Google map tiles

Access management

Serialisation: self-instantiation & self-actualisation of business objects Process scheduling

Content management & moderation Location geocoding

NationalRural web application

OpenFieldsweb application

www.openfields.org.uk website

Accessions management & moderation

Full text indexing

Active Directoryname service

Video-streams

We

b-s

erv

ice

s &

AP

Is

Object inter-relationships

Micro-sites Sub-sites

Access & ownership

N-tiered infrastructure

SQL2005 database

Buy “FreeTextBox”…

Hew it from the wood yourself…

Open Source “FCKeditor”

Disaster recovery

You are here!

Open source: facing a skills shortage

Actuate survey 2008: six in every ten respondents mentioned ‘serious problems finding the right IT skills to implement and manage open source solutions’.

OSS Watch survey 2008 : “a lack of staff expertise was the main reason for not adopting open source on the server, and the secondary reason for not adopting open source on the desktop.”

Open source: facing a skills shortage

Actuate survey 2008: six in every ten respondents mentioned ‘serious problems finding the right IT skills to implement and manage open source solutions’.

OSS Watch survey 2008 : “a lack of staff expertise was the main reason for not adopting open source on the server, and the secondary reason for not adopting open source on the desktop.”