2009 statistics canada enterprise architecture (ea) repository -

Statistics Canada Enterprise Architecture (EA) Repository - What’s in it for you?

Sheri Buck System Development Division

Statistics Canada

Session # 14April 15, 2009

Outline

What is it? What’s in it for you? How is it organized? How you can contribute? Why wiki?

Seven Elements of EA (Baker and Janiszewski, Diamond Cluster)

1. Keep on track with architectural governance.2. Set the stage with guiding principles.3. Manage complexity with blueprints.4. Organize for architecture success.5. Integrate through architectural process.6. Use tools to model, analyze and communicate your

architecture.7. Measure architecture success with metrics.

(No. 6) Use Tools to Model, Analyze and Communicate Your Architecture

Yesterday: Office Products System Modelling Intranet websites Stored in the file systems Silos

Today: Whatever works EA Repository & Portal Let the community populate

the EA Repository Aggregate, classify, align

and integrate Filter, analyse and report Subscription and notification

What’s in it for you?

When you are considering an IT proposal new in town consolidating Divisions investigating technology handling software license renewal leading an IT project a CS Selection Process candidate analyzing impact of change

What’s going

What’s going on

What’s coming

Demonstration

EA Repository Architecture

EACommunity

Portal

EAReference

Library

EA Register

STCwiki

EAAnalytics

MetaWebClassification Loader EZWeb

ExtractCapture

Publish

Governance

Topics

Program Information Service Application Technology

SecurityIT

Best Practice

Reference Models

The Reference Models & Topics

Why wiki?

We need to know what we know

Easy to contribute Easy to collaborate Easy to access latest version Leverage the IMDB for registration & analytical reporting Measure the impact of change

We need to know what we know.

Sheri BuckChief IT ArchitectSystem Development Division(613) 951-1074sheri.buck@statcan.gc.ca