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2012 ESSnet Workshop Session 2 Shared services Christine WIRTZ Eurostat Head of Unit "IT for statistical production" Rome, 3 December 2012 ESTAT Scope and objectives The ESS-VIP cross cutting project "SHARED SERVICES" aims at putting in place • an architecture and • related governance • allowing for sharing of services across processes and among partners (the ESS). 2 ESTAT RELATION WITH ESS VIP PROJECTS Business (domain oriented) ESS VIPs foresee development of one or several service(s) to be shared in the ESS ADMIN Shared IT solutions for some of the methodological building blocks NAPS-S ESS NA services, e.g. content validation and seasonal adjustment ESBRs Development of e-Services SIMSTAT Other corporate-software functionality ICT Shared services Validation Validation solutions and other related IT services 3 ESTAT RELATION WITH ESS VIP PROJECTS General Technical Links with other cross-cutting projects Networks Information Models Data warehouses Validation architecture Governance Human resources Financial resources and cost sharing Communication 4 ESTAT Link with previous projects / other initiatives ESSnets Ongoing flagship projects and VIPs: Other initiatives • • • • • • Common reference environment (CORE) Methodology for modern Business Statistics (Memobust) Harmonisation of statistical disclosure control (SDC) Multimode data collection (DCSS) SDMX ... • Census HUB, EGR, … • VIP SICON, VIP Validation, VIP NAPS2, VIP EDC, … • • • • Harmonisation of seasonal adjustment Sharing Advisory board Modernisation of production of statistics … 5 ESTAT Proposed approach Common approach (technology, methodology) required ensuring economy of scales, integration, reusability and reuse of services. The way to develop an ESS framework for building such services, and a platform for sharing services should be elaborated. The potential for centres of excellence for sharing statistical services should be evaluated. This will include the full scale of governance aspects (ownership, training, maintenance, support, …). 6 ESTAT Maturity Requirements established by ESS VIP business projects Initiatives in several Member States have already started and some are well advanced Some Member States ask for sharing / reuse International initiatives: HLG on Modernising Production of Statistics; Sharing Advisory Board 7 ESTAT Next steps As requested by the ESSC meeting in 11/2012, the business case for the ESS cross-cutting project "Shared services" needs to be further elaborated. This more elaborated business case will then be forwarded to the appropriate decision making body. ESTAT