Map Asia 2003 Kuala Lumpur, October 2003

1. Map Asia 2003Kuala Lumpur, October 2003 Designing an Integrated Enterprise Model to Support Partnerships in the Geo-Information Industry Dr. M. Mostafa Radwan, L Alvarez, R. Onchaga, J Morales Geo-Information Infrastructure and Organizations ITC, The Netherlands

2. Develop a key enabler to support partnerships of geo-information industry, with the objective to: • Expand beyond the traditional maps by providing a wider scope of geo-services • Enable the delivery of large size and complexity services that is beyond the capacity of ‘single’ organizations • Support collaborative work between Geo-organizations: the emerge of ‘Virtual Enterprises’ • Manage workflows that are working across organizations • Effective use of opportunities offered by ICT

3. Presentation Agenda • Key Requirements in making GIS operational • The GDI concept to support Data Sharing and availability • Opportunities offered by ICT and GI Web Services • Change of focus and improvement actions in GI-organizations • Concept of Virtual Enterprise as a framework for collaborative work • Impact on GDI in supporting the delivery of large services • Requirements for implementation

4. Interoperable Web Services Meeting Today’s Challenges Homeland Security, geo-spatiall Intelligence, Global Change, Command and Control, Environmental Mgmt… • One of the keys to meeting the complex challenges of today is the ability to discover, access, integrate and share information from multiple sources. Federal University NGO State Local

5. The question is how to make GIS Operational

6. Difficulties in making GIS Operational? • Existing GIS systems are mostly isolated islands, interoperability amongst them is lacking • The importance of well structured, up-to-date spatial data, stored and managed in databases, is overlooked • The lack of technical and institutional utilities to support access to datasets as well as geo-services available in distributed, heterogeneous GISs

7. What are the Key Requirements to Make GIS Services Operational and Sustainable?

8. Requirement 1: • Create a utility to support access/share data hosted in nation-wide GIS systems, avoiding the painful and costly process of collecting them?

9. ? The GDI Initiative: Develop a utility to support access to existing Geo-information in distributed environment

10. GIS/ LIS User communities Standards &Common interfaces enable interoperability Clearinghouse data and service catalouge World Wide Web Topographic Office National Cadastre Private Company Municipality Open GIS Cocept:

11. Information Policy Governing GDI • access and use • pricing and financing • liability • integrity, quality management, training. • standards • “political” accountability • legislation • privacy • universality • intellectual property • copy right • data protection • free access to govt info GROOT, GIM 98

12. Requirement 2: • Make use ICT Opportunities for effective Web Services to support access to remote GIS functions not available in-house?

13. Wireless and mobile computing • Internet technologies (eg.XML) • Role of GIS in Enterprises • Availability spatial data • Internet (html, cgi, java) • Client/Server • Middleware (Corba) -Lower costs of PC -Faster processing Databases with spatial extensions, SDE Unbundled GIS nto autonomous services Stand-alone systems (workstations) Embedabble GIS components Data tightly integrated with system Distributed and interoperable GIS services Web mapping Evolution of GIS: From Stand-alone to Web Services Desktop mapping

14. Very thick GIS client GIS data files Server Internet Data Server Client Network client Data request GIS software GIS Database Net Enabled GIS Software

15. GIS Web Services: Definition • Web Services are self-contained, self-describing, modular applications that can be published, located and dynamically invoked across the web. • Three basic categories of GIS Web Services: • Data Services (offer access to data) • Processing Services (provide operations for processing data) • Catalog Services (Describe existing data and services)

16. Chaining of services: • Services can be simple or complex where more than one service node is involved • Services can be chained: • user manually composes and executes the service chain • A pre-defined service chain, executed and controlled by workflow service

17. Portrayal service assembles Reprojection service reprojects orthoimage from several imagery the image from one coordinate services system to another one Web Coverage Service Overlay service overlays the input image and the vector data and sends the overlay to the client Web Portrayal Reprojection To Client Coverage Service Service Service Overlay Service Web Coverage Service Vector Data Provider Service Vector data provider service returns a certain layer at the extent specified Application Development using GIS Web Services • Service Chaining • When a task needed by a client cannot be provided by a single service, but rather by combining or pipelining results from several complementary services. • Key Issues • Chaining transparency, metadata tracking, error reporting, synchronicity

18. Requirement 3: • Re-engineering and improvement actions in GI-organizations (data and service providers to insure the sustainability of GIS services?

19. Vision Mission Political & Legal Environment Organisational Structure Human Resource Development Resource Management Social Environment Workflow Management Technological Environment Integrated Information System Access Policy Standards Macro Economic Environment Total Quality management Demographic Environment R & D Strategies Policies

20. Business Process re-engineering • Change of focus: from Maps to information and diverse services • Re-design of processes and operations and quality management • Downsizing; effective use of digital technology • Outsourcing; focusing on core competences

21. Exploring New Business Paradigm in the GIS Market • Many GIS organizations are forced to work in a more tightly coupled mode. • This is to satisfy the needs for varieties of geo-spatial data sets and services, mostly of large volumes and in near-real time mode, and beyond the capacity of ‘single’ organization.

22. Requirement 4: • What is the framework for collaborative work between GIS organizations to provide large, on-line, services?

23. The emerge of ‘Virtual Enterprises’ (VE): • Co-operational network of individual (small as well as large) organizations for the delivery of a product or services on the bases of common business understanding • The opportunities offered by IT and Internet and Web technologies play a key role in realizing such an enterprise at both national and regional levels.

24. Concepts Applied VIRTUAL ENTERPRISE: • independent enterprises • cooperate • sharing business objectives • core competences • ICT

25. Impact on ‘GDI’ Concept • Present concept: GDI is developed as a mechanism to access data hosted in distributed • Need: to extend the services of GDI to access services (beside data) which are offered by GIS nodes in a wider network. • “GDI” (‘D’ means data) • “GSI“ (‘S’ means GIS services)

26. GDI/GSI Virtual Enterprise • GDI/GSI as Virtual Enterprise • It operates as collaborative work, networking data providers, service providers and Clients

27. Requirements to develop GDI/ GSI as an integrated enterprise: • This requires an integration platform that enables interoperability and inter-working of functional service nodes in heterogeneous environment. • The GIS Industry can benefit from the tools that are developed in other industries, as well as the vast opportunities offered by ICT, to make such a ‘virtual’ enterprise (VE) feasible

28. ISO RM-ODP Viewpoints

29. Modeling an integrated enterprise

30. Quality aspects for the GI-services in distributed environment

31. Data Broker System Urban Development Applications Special and general users Other Users Internet Environment Requests Results Metadata User views • Institutional Issues. • Economical Issues. • Technical Issues. Helpdesk GIS spatial analysis models Application development Metadata Value added products Urban mission specific data Data Models for the various urban development/planning applications Internet Environment Data collecting system Data and updates Local users Data Bases

32. GSI BROKER Chats & forums Service supplier Consumer D Map services Integration supplier Product catalog Consumer C Value –added service supplier Consumer B Translation Geospatial Data supplier Consumer A Collaboration support Service Searching Payment WEB Concepts concepts to realize GSI Virtual Enterprise

34. WFMS server Catalogue server INTERNET GSI NODE AS CLIENT Web server LAN Internet browser DBMS server INTERNET Network server GSI NODE LAN LAN DBMS server Other applications WFMS server WFMS server GIS server GIS server DBMS server Other applications System Description:Technical architecture BROKER

35. GSP 2 WF GSP 1 WF performer Client Client performer WF Server Broker WFM Management System WF Server WF Server GSP 3WF Client Performer The Conceptual Model of Workflow management

36. Finally, What is it all about?

37. Develop a key enabler for the partnership of geo-information organizations to provide wider scope of services, of size and complexity that is beyond their individual capacity, making use of opportunities offered by ICT

38. Agriculture Natural Resources Government Utilities Networked Components with OpenGIS Interfaces Cities Transportation Security/Emergency Engineering Integration The magic word is services not maps

39. Thank - you !!!!