Enterprise Architecture @ Istat Monica Scannapieco Division "Information and Application Architecture“ Directorate for methodology and statistical design Italian National Institute of Statistics Email: scannapi@istat.it

The Enterprise Architecture Function Directorate for methodology and statistical design Division on Standards and Quality Division on Process Design and Support to System of Registries Division on Information and Application Architecture In April 2016, Istat adopted a new organizational structure as a result of a specific modernization project In the new structure a dedicated organizational unit (division) that has enterprise architecture as a specific function The unit is part of the Directorate for methodology and statistical design

Division on Information and Application Architecture As of declaratory judgement Definition and monitoring of Istat’s Enterprise Architecture “Il Servizio provvede alla definizione e al monitoraggio dell’architettura di impresa dell’Istat, alla progettazione e alla cura dell’architettura informativa integrata dell’Istituto, comprensiva della relativa modellazione dei metadati strutturali. Si occupa altresì della predisposizione e dell’aggiornamento delle Linee guida per la realizzazione e gestione del sistema dei registri dell’Istituto, della progettazione e della cura dell’architettura di calcolo a supporto dei servizi statistici dei processi di produzione. ” Design and management of the of Istat’s Integrated Information Architecture (with structural metadata) Guidelines for the implementation of the Integrated System of Registries Design and Management of the Computational Architecture to support statistical processes

Division on Information and Application Architecture Number of people: 26 Skills: Engineers: 8 Hard Scientists (Math, Physics, Statistics): 7 Computer Scientists:10 Communication Scientist: 1 4 Ph.Ds Subject Matter Domain Expertise: Social and Demographic Statistics: 19 Economics and Agricoltural Statistics: 9 Territorial and Environmental Statistics: 3 National Accounts: 7

Internal organization of the division: reference areas Three reference areas: Information architecture Application architecture Computational architecture Each person of the division is part of one single reference area Though participating to more than one project that can be led also by other areas

Current (Major) Projects Italian System of Integrated Registries Integrated Process for Economic Surveys Big Data: Advanced analysis methods and laboratory Setting up the Istat EA: definition, governance, platform Main responsibility: Information architecture group Main responsibility; Application architecture group Main responsibility; Methodology architecture group The three groups, each for respective responsibility

How to work with IT? Business-IT Alignment

Strategic alignment model by Henderson and venkatraman 1990 How to work with IT? Business-IT Alignment Model Strategic alignment model by Henderson and venkatraman 1990

How to work with IT? Technology-leverage path

How to support and communicate the EA work Need of an EA platform to Publish (and manage) EA artefacts To involve stakeholders in a structured way Currently Istat is evaluating two platforms: Mega Software AG

How to support and communicate the EA work EA and internal drivers: Enables business-IT alignment by facilitating communication («translator» function) The Business speaks with EA group The EA group speaks with IT Possible issue: useless – IT can speck directly with business

How to support and communicate the EA work Possible issue: useless – EA as a bottleneck EA and internal drivers: Enables corporate-level choices EA group has a view of the whole enterprise Promotes common (i.e. international\enterprise) standards and services Enables monitoring compliance with the vision EA certification: means that the projects goes in the right direction wrt the vision Possible issue: seen as a supervising function with lack of real expertise

How to support and communicate the EA work EA and external drivers Process modelling as a duty for Istat issued by the Italian Anti-Corruption Authority Risk assessment duties: risk assessment efforts very useful if risks are mapped to processed and monitored over time Enhance competiveness Possible cultural issue: stat orgs are not «enterprises»