Building an Enterprise Data Portal

[email protected] Building an Enterprise Data Portal Agenda The basics What is a portal SOA Primer The supporting pieces Putting the pieces together Why build it

Thinking of the future With a sprinkle of case studies throughout What is a Portal??? Wikipedia A web portal is a site that provides a single function via a web page or site. Web portals often function as a point of access to information on the World Wide Web. Portals present information from diverse sources in a unified

way What is a Portal??? My definition: An easy-to-use, one-stop-shop, for geographic data. Information repository Search engine Map viewer Service Provider

Geospatial Textual Web Data Download/Retail??? A Visual Primer on SOA Project Tracking Base Data Snapshot CityIQ

Base Data ESRI GIS Project Funding Snapshot Snapshot New Assets Tidemark Permitting Address/Parcel Update Hansen

CMMS Water Install Work Order Billing Part Costs Parts Catalog Time records Work Order #s Pay Rates Job Cost EDEN

Utility Billing QuickBooks AR AP Invoicing General Ledger Job Cost Cayenta Financials City of Bellingham Public Works Key Existing Systems Vendor Information GL#s eCity Warehouse

A Visual Primer on SOA ` Office Staff HTTP/ HTTPS Office Staff Field Staff Portal Application Server (.Net 2.0, ArcGIS Server ADF) SOAP/ XML Project Tracking Utility Billing

Master Addressing GIS (ArcSDE) Asset/ Maintenance Management Permitting Document Management Lets Take Geek Speak Out of the Equation The Players

The Problem A couple of years ago Starbucks started upgrading the espresso machines The Order You the customer (client) The espresso machine (system) The barista (enterprise service bus)

Quad venti non-fat, no-whip, 170 white mocha The Beauty of it all Did you have to change how you ordered because the espresso machine was upgraded? No. The order was abstracted from the making via a service layer (barista) The supporting pieces Metadata services Probably the most overlooked part of standing up an enterprise GIS

Most people create metadata Few implement a metadata server Highly critical to data sharing Internal External Inter-organization Metadata services Map Viewers

Web Services and so on Service Layer (Security, Orchestration, Scalability) FindAddress GIS UpstreamTra ce AuthorizeWo rk LogCall CRM AssignCall

CreateRepor t CMMS ChargeLabor SendBill Billin g ChargeCC ReceiveParts Web Servers OGC

KML Data retrieval/Retail Putting the pieces together Why (from a business perspective)??? To better server your customers Assistance finding data of interest Visual access to geospatial information Query Print

Identify Provide direct access to routinely updated data View OGC KML Ability to download/purchase data Save time/money Why (from a technology

perspective)??? Its the right architecture Its modular Systems are tied together at the points where it makes sense, not across the board Its standards based

Systems communicate when it makes sense so they arent joined at the hip Stop writing custom code that is not reusable, or at least is less prone to rev-locking Hide complexity rather than introducing it It means your solutions Can more easily grow and evolve with our information systems Can more easily and reliably be expanded to additional information systems Thinking of the future

Adopting to users needs Accepting of change Constantly changing Increasingly complex Building demand More access to data Less inter-personal interaction

Getting it right the first time and the second time and the third time Who wins??? Who weve implemented it for

City of Phoenix, Sky Harbor International Airport City of Bellingham, WA US Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District Paulding County, GA Arizona High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, AZ City of Indianapolis, IN City of Miami, FL Any questions???