1. Business Case National Accounts Production System – Services (NAPS-S)
CSPA Workshop, Geneva June 2016, Day 2
Daniel Suranyi, business architect
Eurostat, Directorate C, National Accounts, prices and key indicators,

2. Objective of the project
Re-design of the National Accounts statistical Production System using Eurostat corporate (CSPA compliant) services for managing and validating incoming data files.

3. Official statistics: the challenge…
Official reference
Cross-domain usage
More timely policies
Commercial providers
GDP T+30
Shrinking resources
€ 🙎

4. Stovepipe production: the reality…
Collect
Process
Analyse
Disseminate
Survey A
Survey B
Survey B

5. Stovepipe production: the reality…
Customised for a specific domain
Conventions used within domains / surveys
Hampering cross-domain usage
Leading to low level of transparency
Not possible to share IT tools efficiently
Difficult to share data across domains / organisations
Difficult to measure quality

6. Example: National Accounts production in Eurostat
Business process

7. Example: National Accounts production in Eurostat
Implementation
FAME
Oracle RDBMS
Oracle OLAP

8. Target: flexible use of statistical services

9. Intermediate step: partial orchestration

10. Intermediate step: partial orchestration

11. Target: flexible use of statistical services
Customised for a specific domain
Conventions used within domains / surveys
Hampering cross-domain usage
Leading to low level of transparency
Not possible to share IT tools efficiently
Difficult to share data across domains / organisations
Difficult to measure quality

12. Target: flexible use of statistical services
Customised for a specific domain
Conventions used within domains / surveys
Hampering cross-domain usage
Leading to low level of transparency
Not possible to share IT tools efficiently
Difficult to share data across domains / organisations
Difficult to measure quality

13. Target: flexible use of statistical services
Architecture for cross-domain usage
Standards used across domains / surveys
Enabling cross-domain usage
Leading to transparency
Encouraged to share IT tools efficiently
Facilitates sharing data across domains / organisations
Possible to measure quality (process, data)

14. The big picture: using standards
GSBPM
Process step categories
GSIM
Reference information model
☑ Statistical Production
CSPA
Service specification
SDMX
Data Modelling
VTL
Validation expressions

15. SOA & standardisation deliver…
Shorter throughput from producer to user
Transparent
production process
data quality (validation rules)
Economy of scale & scope € 🙌

16. Contact: Daniel SURANYI Department: ESTAT.C
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