1. From Red to Green: the role of Enterprise Architecture in the ONS Corporate IT Strategy
Simon Field
Chief Technology Officer

2. Business Functions and Operation
The Big Picture
Big Picture
Datastores
Corporate Strategy
Vision
Issues, Drivers and Environment
Stakeholders
Objectives, Strategies and Priorities
Business Functions and Operation
Risk & Metrics
Audit
Security & Information Assurance
Policies & Standards
Business Information
Business
Processes
Products
& Services
Change
Business Systems
Systems & Components
Technology
IT Infrastructure
Physical Infrastructure
Forward Work Plan
Programmes & Projects
Transition Strategy
Cultural Change
Design Survey
& Sample
Collect Data
& Access
Admin Data
Prepare Data
Primary
Analysis
Further
Disseminate
Information
Manage
Archiving &
Housekeeping
People
& Structure
Values and Principles
Communications
Finance and Planning
Human Resources
Information Management
Methodology
Facilities Management
Corporate Risk
What How Where Who When Why
Metrics

3. Business Functions and Operation
Big Picture
Business Functions and Operation
Business Surveys
MLD
Demo-graphy
Social Surveys
NeSS
Further Analysis
Geo-graphy
Corp. Services
Dissem-ination
Census
Systems and Datastores
SAS
Open-Road
ABF
SuperCross
Uniface
J2EE
Notes
Visual Basic
Foxpro
SPSS
Excel
Clipper
Blaise
Citrix
ESRI
Excel
Ingres
M204
Oracle
MS SQL
Foxpro
Oracle 7
Clipper
Blaise
Infrastructure
Numa
Desktop
Z-Series
P-Series
Wintel Server
Sun

4. Business Functions and Operation
Big Picture
Business Functions and Operation
Business Surveys
MLD
Demo-graphy
Social Surveys
NeSS
Further Analysis
Geo-graphy
Corp. Services
Dissem-ination
Census
Systems and Datastores
SAS
Open-Road
ABF
SuperCross
J2EE
Notes
Visual Basic
SPSS
Excel
Tridion
Blaise
Citrix
ESRI
Ingres
M204
Oracle
MS SQL
Infrastructure
Desktop
Z-Series
P-Series
Wintel Server
Linux

5. “In general, the ability of ONS to adapt and respond to change is limited by its IT, rather than being facilitated by it.”
Corporate IT Strategy

6. A business oriented strategy
Collection
Statistical Operations
Dissemination
Design Survey
& Sample
Collect Data
& Access
Admin Data
Prepare Data
Primary
Analysis
Further
Disseminate
Information
Manage
Archiving &
Housekeeping
Statistical Tools
Communications
Communications
Finance and Planning
Corporate Services
Human Resources
Information Management
Technical Services
Methodology

7. Guiding Principles Five high-level principles: Reusability
Integrability
Sustainability
Corporate Asset
Security

8. ü Guiding Principles Strategic Aims Re-use Integra-bility
Sustain-ability
Corporate Asset
Security
To provide authoritative, timely, and accessible statistics and analysis that impact on decision-making across UK society, anticipate needs and support public accountability ü
to be a trusted and leading supplier of national government statistical expertise and surveys
To maintain a dynamic portfolio of statistical sources which reflect changing data needs
To deliver the sources portfolio in a way which meets user expectations of quality, within the available resources
To minimise the burden on respondents for all survey collection
To adapt rapidly to changing demands through flexibility in our people and systems, and the reinvesting of resources through efficiency, innovation, and methodology and technical improvements
To identify social and technological change that will impact on what we do and how we do it
Guiding Principles
Strategic Aims

9. Architecture Reviews Developed from ATAM (SEI, Carnegie Mellon)
Evaluate solution options towards end of Solution Shaping phase (prior to development of Feasibility Report)
Relates prioritise business requirements to Quality Attributes
Trade-off analysis of risk to requirements for each solution option
Assessment of compliance with Architecture Guiding Principles
Follow-up review during Analysis and Design phase.

10. Architectural Standards
Architectural bricks:
Categorised over time:
Strategic, Tolerated, Retiring, Not in use, To be considered
Database Management Systems
Statistical Tools
Application Servers
Web Servers
Search
Reporting Tools
Storage
Web Content Management
Encryption
Server Operating Systems
Desktop Operating Systems
Service Bus / Messaging
Directory
Document Management
ETL (Extract, Transform, Load)
& calendaring
Development tools

12. Measuring our progress
Big Picture
Subset of the ONS metamodel – model for the data gathering exercise that Apps Support staff contributed to

13. Big Picture
N.B.
System container holds applications called by other applications – we don’t have this many top level applications!

14. Big Picture

15. Big Picture

16. Living Costs and Food survey supersedes the Expenditure and Food Survey (EFS)

17. Quarterly Capital Expenditure is one of the ‘Common Software’ surveys; recently migrated to Ingres 2006 and the AIX platform.

18. Karen Dunnell National Statistician
“The ONS Board fully endorses this strategy. It is driven by ONS corporate aims and objectives to take us into the future.”
Karen Dunnell
National Statistician