1. Implementing CSPA compliant guidelines
to describe identified generic business needs
Eurostat – Unit B3 - IT for Statistical Production
Hubertus Cloodt
WS Modernization of Statistical production (15-17 April 2015) - Geneva

2. Eurostat CSPA basecamp
CSPA certified
Objective
To share experiences being made in a CSPA based project at Eurostat;
A cooperation between EA team and IS architecture team to define a standardised way for describing business needs
using CSPA as the driver…
Eurostat CSPA basecamp

3. The instrument….
Work in Progress

4. An example – CSPA from theory to practice
• How such an instrument can be implemented in an organisation and improve collaboration between business and technology.
• How it could be used to carry out certification of a service definition and to have the service definition registered in the CSPA service catalogue.

5. Situation…
Work in progress for modernising the production of statistics is sometimes perceived as vague, difficult, doesn’t concern me, a burden for my daily work…

6. So some concrete actions defined…
Develop guidelines for describing service definitions
Proof of Concept of first services implemented in a SOA following the guidelines
Set up governance for day to day usage, incl. Catalogue
A first set of “tools”, CSPA compliant,
to raise awareness and increase clarity inside Eurostat .

7. Guidelines basis:
Document identified generic business needs in a standardised way
CSPA V1.0 compliant
EC DG DIGIT service modelling complaint
3 templates:
Definition (conceptual)
Specification (logical)
Implementation(s) (physical)

8. Implementation - Usage
Case by case, depending on requests of business units (Business driven - ex. project « lowering the entry barrier for SDMX implementations»)
Final version to become a standard annexe to the official documents describing development work that is being outsourced
Redesign of existing software solutions (IT driven - IT rationalisation strategy)

9. Service Certification „in the house“
Front office to be coordinator with business analysts, regular meetings
Service proposals to be presented to official committee IT/business
Services agreed to be developed by unit IT for statistical production
But….

10. How to manage these service descriptions?
Obviously storage in a CSPA service catalogue is the goal
Unfortunately the CSPA catalogue lacks some functionality here: categories, hierarchies, local services,…
To be considered is the implementation of a network of CSPA compliant catalogues
CSPA service catalogue would become more powerfull and sustainable when moving towards a different IS architecture

11. CSPA certified
Continuing the climb:
These actions are small steps only, but they give CSPA a « face » in Eurostat
Modernisation of the statistical production process is a big challenge, especially for the production engines dealing with the core part of the process
Governance need to be well defined otherwise failure is fact
Transitions of system components, staff roles and responsabilities, need to be prepared in detail
CSPA and the future ESS EA reference architecture are a good basis to start.

12. How to manage these service descriptions?
CSPA supports you to see the bigger picture!
Thank you!
Obviously storage in the (or a) CSPA service catalogue is the goal