1. Enterprise Architecture @ Istat
Monica Scannapieco
Division "Information and Application Architecture“
Directorate for methodology and statistical design
Italian National Institute of Statistics

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. How to work with IT?
Business-IT Alignment

8. 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

9. How to work with IT?
Technology-leverage path

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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»