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14 June
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"A Dream to Reality”, Moving
Towards a Federated Architecture with EAF4PS
Chris
Mendes, Information Architect, PIT0 & Symon
Cusack, Consultant, Popkin Software
Last
year PITO presented their objectives and conceptual design for an Enterprise
Architecture Framework for the Police Service (EAF4PS). As a recap the objectives
were:-
INTEGRATION
- More effective
policing through improved information flows
- “Joining-up”
the Police Service and the Criminal Justice System
AGILITY
- Respond to change
in environment (e.g. legislation, patterns of crime)
EFFICIENCY
& COST REDUCTION
- Avoid duplication
of IT and re-keying of information
MANAGING
COMPLEXITY
ALIGNMENT
- IT change aligned
to Police Service Objectives
This year’s
presentation will focus on the “lessons learned” from delivering
the two independent demonstrators i.e. Popkin System Architect and Unisys
Adaptive, which have proved that EA is not an idealistic/theoretical exercise,
but an achievable aim. The presentation will demonstrate how EA will add
benefits and value, not only in addressing the above objectives, but through
its practical application in every day business and delivery of information
systems. Using a Framework Taxonomy, the EAF4PS vision is to enable the
Police Service (43 UK Forces, 8 Scottish Forces, British Transport and
PITO) to have total visibility of all national and local artefacts, so
that any opportunities for collaboration between organisations can be
maximised. The challenge for both business and PITO ICT is how to capitalise
on these benefits, and the presentation will offer a way forward which
will enable the Police Service to collaborate with PITO and across Forces
in sharing architecture through appropriately tuned governance.
The common standards
framework, which is built from the Zachman Enterprise Architecture Framework
(ZEAF) specification, supports the EAF4PS strategy by incorporating processes
for convergence to a single National standard and in particular procedures
for:-
- Creating and maintaining
partial artifact designs (known as “slivers” in the ZEAF),
which will enable specialisations at National and Local force levels.
- Applying Technical
Design Authority through governance rules/principles, so that these
partial artifact designs can be amalgamated, or where appropriate reused
by others in their artifact design.
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