Washington, D.C., U.S.A May 2012

Some concepts of systems architectures Industrialization of statistics and software architecture Study cases Conclusions

Systems architecture allows to describe a complex system at a high level of abstraction. It’s a planning and coordination instrument in which we can document knowledge, experiences and best practices.

All systems have an architecture We can go from very narrow solutions to inter-organizational environments

Continuous Improvement of Statistical outputs with new and better products and services to stay relevant: – Tuned to the way the world is operating today – Created from a global perspective Creation of new and better production processes and methods to improve efficiency and effectiveness: – Tuned to delivering our products at minimal cost – With greater flexibility and in cooperation between institutions

Industrialization of statistics aims to lower cost of delivering products to satisfy users’ needs by mean of the standardization of processes and products

A software product line consists of a product-line architecture and a set of reusable components. Is based in reusable architectural designs and in component-based software. To get necessary variation of those components, we design them in such way that they can be configured, specialized or easily replaced by providing standardized interfaces. We can develop systems that are explicitly created to be reused in different statistical projects and which can be shared among organizations

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Software architectures are of critical importance to incorporate functionalities and quality characteristics into a system Product lines design could be a valid approach to create adaptable and reusable systems at a lower cost in the context of statistics industrialization Software architectures help to set the basis for cooperative development among organizations New initiatives and requirements, like open data or development for mobile devices requires of systems with robust architectures