information infrastructure: foundations for abs transformation
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Information Infrastructure: Foundations for ABS Transformation
Stuart Girvan, Australian Bureau of Statistics
MSIS Paris, April 2013
Outline• ABS 2017 Transformation Vision and Information Infrastructure
• Metadata Registry and Repository (MRR) & Statistical Workflow Management system (SWM)
• Achievements so far
• What’s next?
• The journey
VISION FOR ABS 2017 TRANSFORMATION & THE ROLE OF INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE
Enablers Business Change Benefits Strategic Goals
Metadata driven
processes
Re-use metadata
Managed, consolidated & consistent
business processes
Re-use processes
Re-engineered, Improved Business Processes
Enterprise Architecture
Information Governance, Architecture & Management
Survive and ThriveProcess
Assembly and
Automation
Managed, consolidated & consistent
metadata
Migrate corporate/foundation metadata to MRR
Reduce time and cost of
business operations
Grow business via new
statistical products/services
Statistical Workflow Management System (SWM)
Metadata Registry and Repository (MRR)
EDW
Existing/new applications integrate with MRR/EDW
(Better) Tools and applications integrated with MRR
Existing/new applications integrate with SWM/SOA
Processes captured as Services, Workflow – SOA
Managed, consolidated & consistent applications
& components
Business
Information
Application
Re-use metadata
Re-use application components
Component/service assembly
Enterprise
Business Transformation
Re-use of common business processes
Process assembly, configuration and automation
The role of MRR and SWM
• MRR and SWM provide foundations for processes and metadata to be:– Managed– Consistent– Discoverable– Governed– Executable
– Ultimately, re-usable, easily assembled, and in the case of processes, automatable
MRR AND SWM
What is MRR?
• The Metadata Registry and Repository consists of two parts:– Repository – the centralised store for standards
based metadata
– Registry – the catalogue that tells you what’s in the repository
MRR – Registering & Retrieving Metadata
Registry
Repository
Register key elements of metadata package
E.g. Register metadata
Complete metadata package resides in
Repository
MRR – Registering & Retrieving Metadata
Repository
Search for metadata here
E.g. Metadata search
Returns list of relevant metadata held in the
repository
Registry ?
Pointer to Metadata in Repository
Registry
MRR – Registering & Retrieving Metadata
RepositoryE.g. Retrieve metadata from herebased on search results
MRR & standardsRepository
This will be the metadata content in the most appropriate standard (DDI, SDMX, etc)
E.g.DDI,SDMX,And ?
Registry
Model of what we keep in a registration
(ATMM- GSIM)
Mapping between the registration and the standard
What is SWM?
• Statistical Workflow Management System • ActiveVos (BPMS)
+ governance (e.g. Alignment of new processes to business architecture, Duplication of existing processes?)+ processes for building workflow and orchestration+ role and responsibilities
WHAT WE HAVE DONE SO FAR AND WHAT’S NEXT
What have we learnt?
• MRR works
• DDI/SDMX successfully used– E-forms generation– Table production for analysis– Metadata queries for end user data sets
What have we learnt?
• SWM good for – doing things quickly – joining things up – coordinating and re-using processes– handling long, asynchronous events
• Exposes and documents business process
What’s next?
Input Data Warehouse
and Tools
Collection/Data
Definition Tools
Instrument Definition
Tools
Run Survey/ Data
Collection Tools
Processing,Editing, Analysis
Data Warehouseand Tools
Output Data Warehouse and Tools
Instrument Generation
Tools
DisseminateTools
Corporate Metadata Tools
Classification Management
Glossary Management
Standard Question, Data Element (variable) Definition
Topics Management
Corporate Metadata Registry and Repository
Corporate Business Process Tool and Repository SWMMRR
REACHING THE VISION
Vision for Re-use: Existing Applications/Tools decomposed into re-usable bits
User Interface
Business Rules and Processes
Data and Metadata
SWM
MRR
Common (largely), stable, reusable, automatable workflow
Common Statistical Metadata
Any given application consists of
Common Statistical Data EDW
Common, stable, reusable, modular services
Services
Statistical Data
Information about Statistical Data
Workflow & process orchestration
Code that takes metadata and data, and does something
with it (e.g. imputation)
Vision for Re-use for New Applications/Tools
User Interface
SWM
MRR
Common (largely), stable, reusable, automatable workflow
Common Statistical Metadata
Common Statistical DataEDW
Common, stable, reusable, modular services
Services
Application Specific
Code
New Application
Business Rules and Processes
Data and Metadata
User InterfaceUser InterfaceUser InterfaceUser Interface
SWM
SWM MRR EDW Services
User InterfaceUser Interface
Information Infrastructure Backbone
Vision for re-use and automation (& assembly)
InformationInfrastructure
Backbone
User Interface
Business Rules and Processes
Data and Metadata
• Code most new applications • Different tools don’t play well
together
• Some re-use of metadata and process via integrated tools
• Some coding, some re-use of code
• Tools begin to integrate
The journey, and wins on the way
User Interface
User Interface
Business Rules and Processes
Data and Metadata
Business Rules and Processes
Data and Metadata
SWM
MRR
EDW
Services
• Configure and assemble processes from components
• Business process greatly automated
• Code small number of things, re-using a lot others
Enablers Business Change Benefits Strategic Goals
Metadata driven
processes
Re-use metadata
Managed, consolidated & consistent
business processes
Re-use processes
Re-engineered, Improved Business Processes
Enterprise Architecture
Information Governance, Architecture & Management
Survive and ThriveProcess
Assembly and
Automation
Managed, consolidated & consistent
metadata
Migrate corporate/foundation metadata to MRR
Reduce time and cost of
business operations
Grow business via new
statistical products/services
Statistical Workflow Management System (SWM)
Metadata Registry and Repository (MRR)
EDW
Existing/new applications integrate with MRR/EDW
(Better) Tools and applications integrated with MRR
Existing/new applications integrate with SWM/SOA
Processes captured as Services, Workflow – SOA
Managed, consolidated & consistent applications
& components
QUESTIONS?
Contributors: Chris Conran, Simon Wall, Gillian Nicoll