Smart-city implementation 
reference model 
Alexander SAMARIN 
For IEC/SEG Smart-city plenary meeting in 
Atlanta, September 2014
About me 
• A digital enterprise architect 
– from a programmer to a systems architect 
– creator of systems that work without me 
– broad experience: company, canton, country, continent 
• I believe that many improvements in operational 
excellence and strategy execution are achievable 
relatively easy 
• HOW I do what I do 
– architecting synergy between strategies, technologies, tools and 
good practices for the client’s unique situation, and knowledge 
transfer 
• WHAT is the result of my work for clients 
– less routine work, less stress, higher performance, higher security, 
less risk, higher predictability of results, better operations, less 
duplication and liberation of business potentials 
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Agenda 
• Context 
• Smart-city implementation reference model 
• Views 
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Introduction 
• Smart-city: a city architected to address public issues via 
ICT-based solutions on the basis of a multi-stakeholder 
municipally based partnership 
• A smart-city is a socio-technical system of systems 
• Relationships between social and technical elements 
should lead to the emergence of productivity and 
wellbeing 
• System: a set of interacting interdependent components 
forming an integrated whole 
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Complexity of smart-city as a socio-technical 
system of systems 
• Almost unlimited life-cycle (unpredictable and incremental 
evolution) 
• Socio-technical system 
• Collaborative system 
• Industrialised system 
• Ability for rapid innovation is important 
• Variety of services (several hundred governmental 
services are listed in the Swiss e-government catalogue) 
• High level of security for personal data 
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Agenda 
• Context 
• Smart-city implementation reference model 
• Views 
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WHY implementation reference model (1) 
• All smart-cites deliver the same services, albeit in a 
different manner 
• Realisation of smart-city potentials would benefit from a 
holistic approach 
• BSI standard 
PAS 181:2014 
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WHY implementation reference model (2) 
• Digital age - It is not about “just the website”, “online services” 
or “transactions” 
• Everything becomes digital: products, information, content, 
documents, records, processes, money, rights, 
communications – Digital eats physical 
• If digital then intangible thus news tools and new execution 
speed immediately – Fast eats slow 
• Digital things are at new scale – Big eats small 
• With this new speed and scale, there is no time for human 
intervention and errors in routine operations and at interfaces 
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WHY implementation reference model (3) 
• There is a way to combine diversity and uniformity 
• The problem of combining them is also known as “shared 
services” 
• Example - Business units (BUs) have different levels of 
computerisation 
– a standard solution from the IT department is not always good for 
everyone 
BU1 BU2 BU3 
Standard 
solution 
Level of 
computerisation 
IT department 
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WHY implementation reference model (4) 
Level of 
computerisation 
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B C A B A B C 
BU1 BU2 BU3 
1) Standard 
solution is based 
on processes and 
shared services 
2) Each BU is 
moving to a similar 
architecture 
IT department 
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WHY implementation reference model (5) 
• Considers together all implementations and architects 
the ability to reproduce results 
– ready-to-use solutions, tools, patterns and architectures 
– offers the best possible services for each citizen 
– becomes the centre of societal transformation 
– seamlessly incorporates innovations 
– implementable at your pace 
– secure by design 
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HOW does this reference model work 
• Applies the power of enterprise architecture 
– platform-based implementation 
– enterprise-as-a-system-of-processes 
– microservices 
– modernisation of legacy applications 
• Forms a Common Urban Business Execution (CUBE) 
platform 
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EA explained (1) 
• Architect: a person who translates a customer’s 
requirements into a viable plan and guides others in its 
execution 
• Enterprise Architecture (EA): the process of translating 
business vision and strategy into effective enterprise 
change by creating, communicating and improving the 
key requirements, principles and models that describe the 
enterprise's future state and enabling its evolution and 
transformation 
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EA explained (2) 
• EA is the ideal “tool” to address the challenge of diversity 
and uniformity because EA is a holistic coordinator of 
people, processes and technologies in 4 dimensions: 
– business domains span – organisational unit, segment, 
enterprise, supply-chain, municipality, province, ministry, country, 
region, continent, etc. 
– architectural practices span – business, data, application, 
security, information, technology, etc. 
– time span – solution life-cycle, technology life-cycle, tool life-cycle, 
project life-cycle, enterprise life-cycle, etc. 
– sector span – detecting and re-using common patterns (good 
business practices) in unique processes from different sectors 
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EA views: projects, solutions, 
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capabilities and platforms 
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EA views: time span 
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EA views: business domains span vs 
time span 
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EA views: architectural practices span vs 
business domains span 
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EA: Many stakeholders (participants) 
• Citizens 
• Government authorities 
• Funding bodies 
• Local government stakeholders 
• National regulatory agencies 
• Political parties 
• Public service providers 
• Local businesses 
• IT vendors 
• Architects 
• Project managers 
• Local NGOs 
• External NGOs 
• Global businesses 
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Matrix of stakeholders and views 
The numbers “2.2” etc. are references to chapters in the concept paper 
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WHAT reference model: many views (1) 
• Reference functional architecture 
• Partner and smart-city-entity interaction view 
• Partner view 
• Evolution of implementation view 
• The governmental-entities integration view 
• Paperless or digital work view 
• Platform-based implementation view 
– Platform-based approach 
– Platform-based implementation practices 
– Project management practices 
– Implementation governance view 
– Architecture-based procurement view 
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WHAT reference model: many views (2) 
• Common functional capabilities 
• Enterprise as a system of processes 
• Enhancing information security through the use of 
processes 
• Enterprise Risk Management reference model 
• Records management as a BPM application 
• Multi-layered implementation model 
• Agile solution delivery practices 
• Microservices 
• Various technologies around the implementation model 
• Modernisation of applications to become process-centric 
• Moving services to clouds 
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Agenda 
• Context 
• Smart-city implementation reference model 
• Views 
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VIEWS (1) 
• Common functional capabilities 
• Partner and smart-city-entity interaction view 
• Partner view 
• Evolution of implementation view 
• The governmental entities integration view 
• Paperless or digital work view 
• Platform-based implementation view 
– Platform-based approach 
– Platform-based implementation practices 
– Project management practices 
– Implementation governance view 
– Architecture-based procurement view 
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Common functional capabilities (1) 
• Smart-city common capabilities 
– City-related registries: citizens, business, services 
– Inter-participants secure data and information exchange 
– Repository of community-important flows of events 
– Repository of community-important business objects (during their 
full life-cycle) 
• Smart-city domains capabilities 
– To be provided during the evolution of the platform 
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Common functional capabilities (2) 
• Good business practices 
• Universal business capabilities 
• Specialised enterprise capabilities 
• Basic technical capabilities (or technologies) 
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VIEWS (1) 
• Common functional capabilities 
• Partner and smart-city-entity interaction view 
• Partner view 
• Evolution of implementation view 
• The governmental entities integration view 
• Paperless or digital work view 
• Platform-based implementation view 
– Platform-based approach 
– Platform-based implementation practices 
– Project management practices 
– Implementation governance view 
– Architecture-based procurement view 
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Four communication patterns for 
exchanges between a partner and the 
government 
Partners (citizen, business, and other organisations) 
Government 
2. Patrner-declaration 
1. Government-announce 
4. Partner-demand 
Spread 
in time 
3. Government-demand 
Spread 
in time 
1. Government-announcement, e.g. broadcasting changes in a law 
2. Partner-declaration, e.g. communicating a change of the partner’s address 
3. Government-demand, e.g. inviting to pay taxes 
4. Partner-demand, e.g. requesting a certificate (fishing license) 
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A partner-initiated-demand may 
required several exchanges between the 
partner and the government 
Government 
Time 
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The partner may need to deal with some 
ministries 
Government 
Ministry A Ministry B Ministry C 
Methodologies: 
+ data modelling 
+ electronic document 
exchange 
Time 
Tools: 
+ standard data schemas 
+ electronic signature 
• data flow (black 
dashed lines) 
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E-gov coordinates partner’s interactions 
Methodologies: 
• data modelling 
• electronic document 
Process 
with the government 
+ + + + 
Government 
• control flow (black solid 
lines) 
• data flow (black dashed 
lines) 
Ministry A Ministry B Ministry C 
Time 
(ED) exchange 
+ BPM discipline 
+ process modelling 
Technologies: 
• standard data schemas 
• electronic signature 
+ BPM suite 
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E-gov unifies the communication 
between the partner and the ministries 
Methodologies: 
• data modelling 
• electronic document 
(ED) exchange 
+ BPM discipline 
+ process modelling 
… … 
Process -- 
Government 
2b 
Ministry B 
Time 
2a x 2c 
• control flow (black solid 
lines) 
• data flow (black dashed 
lines) 
Technologies: 
• standard data schemas 
• electronic signature 
+ BPM suite 
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E-gov provides a social collaborative 
Methodologies: 
• data modelling 
• ED exchange 
• BPM discipline 
• process modelling 
+ ED management 
+ records management 
+ collaboration 
+ social 
Process 
extranet for partners 
+ + + + 
Government 
Ministry A Ministry B Ministry C 
Time 
Technologies: 
• standard data schemas 
• electronic signature 
• BPM suite 
+ ECM 
Social collaborative extranet 
• control flow (black solid 
lines) 
• data flow (black dashed 
lines) 
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VIEWS (1) 
• Common functional capabilities 
• Partner and smart-city-entity interaction view 
• Partner view 
• Evolution of implementation view 
• The governmental entities integration view 
• Paperless or digital work view 
• Platform-based implementation view 
– Platform-based approach 
– Platform-based implementation practices 
– Project management practices 
– Implementation governance view 
– Architecture-based procurement view 
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Partner’s view 
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VIEWS (1) 
• Common functional capabilities 
• Partner and smart-city-entity interaction view 
• Partner view 
• Evolution of implementation view 
• The governmental entities integration view 
• Paperless or digital work view 
• Platform-based implementation view 
– Platform-based approach 
– Platform-based implementation practices 
– Project management practices 
– Implementation governance view 
– Architecture-based procurement view 
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E-gov application architecture view 
Partners 
Social collaborative extranet 
e-gov 
service 
e-gov 
service 
e-gov 
service 
Coordination and integration backbone 
Existing 
application 
e-Government 
Existing 
application 
Existing 
application 
Government 
Technologies: 
• BPM suite 
• SOA orientation 
• ECM 
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E-gov traditional application architecture 
Partners 
Application 
Existing 
application 
Portal 
Application 
Existing 
application 
Application 
Existing 
application 
Government 
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E-gov introductory application 
architecture 
Partners 
Social collaborative extranet 
e-gov 
service 
e-gov 
service 
e-gov 
service 
Coordination and integration backbone 
Existing 
application 
e-Government 
Existing 
application 
Existing 
application 
Government 
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E-gov transitional application 
architecture 
Partners 
Social collaborative extranet 
e-gov 
service 
e-gov 
service 
e-gov 
service 
Coordination and integration backbone 
Existing 
application 
e-Government 
Existing 
application 
Coordination backbone 
Existing 
application 
Service Service 
Government 
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E-gov target application architecture 
Partners 
Social collaborative extranet 
e-Government 
e-gov 
service 
e-gov 
service 
e-gov 
service 
Coordination and integration backbone 
Service Service Service 
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E-social system application architecture 
Partners 
Social collaborative extranet 
E-social system 
Public 
service 
Social 
service 
Coordination and integration backbone 
Private 
service 
Professional 
service 
Voluntary 
service 
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Steps of evolution in application 
architecture 
Introductory 
architecture 
Target 
architecture 
E-Social system 
architecture 
Portal-centric 
architecture 
Transitional 
architecture 
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VIEWS (1) 
• Common functional capabilities 
• Partner and smart-city-entity interaction view 
• Partner view 
• Evolution of implementation view 
• The governmental entities integration view 
• Paperless or digital work view 
• Platform-based implementation view 
– Platform-based approach 
– Platform-based implementation practices 
– Project management practices 
– Implementation governance view 
– Architecture-based procurement view 
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Integration process instead of 
N-to-N connectivity 
Nx(N-1)/2 complexity N complexity 
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Use of many security envelopes 
• Business (processing) envelope 
• Delivery (addressing) envelope 
• Transportation (routing) envelope 
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VIEWS (1) 
• Common functional capabilities 
• Partner and smart-city-entity interaction view 
• Partner view 
• Evolution of implementation view 
• The governmental entities integration view 
• Paperless or digital work view 
• Platform-based implementation view 
– Platform-based approach 
– Platform-based implementation practices 
– Project management practices 
– Implementation governance view 
– Architecture-based procurement view 
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Platform-based architecture (1) 
• Business concern: How to deliver many similar 
applications for various highly-diverse clients; define 
everything up-front is not possible (typical BPM or ECM 
project) 
• Logic 
– Developing individual applications will bring a lot of duplications 
– The provisioning of solutions should be carried out incrementally 
with the pace of the target client 
– Consider a platform 
1. must standardise and simplify core elements of future 
enterprise-wide system 
2. for any elements outside the platform, new opportunities 
should be explored using agile principles 
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Platform-based architecture (2) 
• Principles 
– The platform frees up resource to focus on new opportunities 
– Successful agile innovations are rapidly scaled up when 
incorporated into the platform 
– An agile approach requires coordination at a system level 
– To minimise duplication of effort in solving the same problems, 
there needs to be system-wide transparency of agile initiatives 
– Existing elements of the platform also need periodic challenge 
Delivery by applications Delivery by solutions 
A2 
A1 
A3 
S2 
S … 
1 
Platform 
S3 
Functionality 
Scope 
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Overall platform governance 
• There are two primary types of activity. 
– On-going and centralised platform evolution 
– Rapid implementation of solutions as mini-projects 
• Platform evolution is carried out by an inter-organisational- 
units coordination committee 
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Advantages of the corporate 
ECM platform 
D 
E 
V 
E 
L 
O 
P 
M 
E 
N 
T 
Functionality 
Process-centric 
integration 
Company-specific 
features 
Advanced features of a 
common ECM platform 
Basic features of a 
common ECM platform 
Generic web- environment 3 
development platforms 
Dev env 1 Dev env 2 
Development 
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Financial estimations 
• Current development cost & time for a collaborative 
application 
– Cost: 40 – 200 K $ 
– Time: 0,5 – 2 years 
• Corporate platform program cost & time 
– Cost: 600 K $ 
– Time: 1 year 
$$ 
• Expected development cost & time for 
a collaborative application within 
the corporate platform 
– Cost: 20 - 60 K $ 
– Time: 1 - 3 months 
N apps. 
N≈8 
Without 
common 
platform 
With 
common 
platform 
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VIEWS (1) 
• Common functional capabilities 
• Partner and smart-city-entity interaction view 
• Partner view 
• Evolution of implementation view 
• The governmental entities integration view 
• Paperless or digital work view 
• Platform-based implementation view 
– Platform-based approach 
– Platform-based implementation practices 
– Project management practices 
– Implementation governance view 
– Architecture-based procurement view 
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Ladder of maturity meta-pattern 
• Entities are permitted to advance at different paces in 
their ascent to the top of the “ladder”. 
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Component-oriented design 
• The platform is designed to be tools-independent by 
standardizing data, information, interfaces and 
coordination between various capabilities. 
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VIEWS (1) 
• Common functional capabilities 
• Partner and smart-city-entity interaction view 
• Partner view 
• Evolution of implementation view 
• The governmental entities integration view 
• Paperless or digital work view 
• Platform-based implementation view 
– Platform-based approach 
– Platform-based implementation practices 
– Project management practices 
– Implementation governance view 
– Architecture-based procurement view 
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Architecture-based agile project 
management 
• It combines decomposition with agile implementation of 
“architected” components 
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VIEWS (1) 
• Common functional capabilities 
• Partner and smart-city-entity interaction view 
• Partner view 
• Evolution of implementation view 
• The governmental entities integration view 
• Paperless or digital work view 
• Platform-based implementation view 
– Platform-based approach 
– Platform-based implementation practices 
– Project management practices 
– Implementation governance view 
– Architecture-based procurement view 
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Structural dependencies between 
various artefacts 
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Dynamic relationships between various 
Business 
initiatives 
(business-specific 
demand) 
Manage 
business by 
processes 
Business 
capabilities 
(business-generic 
demand) 
Manage 
processes BPM suite 
IT 
capabilities 
(IT-generic 
supply) 
Roadmap 
programmes 
(from AS-IS 
to TO-BE) 
Business demand IT supply 
Business 
strategic 
objectives 
Governance 
1 
2 
3 
2 
2->5 
2->4 
1->3 
1->4 
2->5 
2->4 
1->3 
2->4 
3->4 
5 
4 
3 
4 
Business priority Requested maturity Maturity improvement 
1 
2 
3 
4 
4 
1 
1 
2 
3 
2 
2 
4 
4 
5 
3 
IT tools 
(IT-specific 
supply) 
3->5 
3->4 
1->4 
3->4 
2->4 
3 
Programme priority 
5 
4 
3 
4 
4 
artefacts 
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Implications and example 
• Implications 
– A formal way to discover points of the most leverage 
– The decision-making process is explicit and transparent 
– A strategy adjustment and validation becomes a routine on-going 
activity during its implementation (like functioning of the GPS 
navigator) 
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VIEWS (1) 
• Common functional capabilities 
• Partner and smart-city-entity interaction view 
• Partner view 
• Evolution of implementation view 
• The governmental entities integration view 
• Paperless or digital work view 
• Platform-based implementation view 
– Platform-based approach 
– Platform-based implementation practices 
– Project management practices 
– Implementation governance view 
– Architecture-based procurement view 
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Architecture-based procurement 
• Separation of duties 
• Architecture group: selection of IT 
• Procurement group: acquisition of such IT components 
(licensees, installation, training, documentation, 
operations, etc.) 
• Of course, the architecture group must make the selection 
logic as explicit as possible. 
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VIEWS (2) 
• Common functional capabilities 
• Enterprise as a system of processes 
• Enhancing information security by the use of processes 
• Enterprise Risk Management reference model 
• Records management as an BPM application 
• Multi-layered implementation model 
• Agile solution delivery practices 
• Microservices 
• Various technologies around the implementation model 
• Modernisation of applications to become process-centric 
• Moving services to clouds 
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Enterprise as a system of processes 
• In the context of enterprise functioning, business 
activities must be coordinated 
• Coordination maybe strong (e.g. as in the army) or 
weak (e.g. as in an amateurs football team) 
• Coordination maybe implicit or explicit 
• Coordination maybe declarative (laws) and imperative 
(orders) 
• Based on coordination, let us think about “levels of 
cohesion” 
1. process patterns (coordination within processes) 
2. processes 
3. cluster of processes (coordination between processes) 
4. system of processes (coordination between clusters of processes) 
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Process fragments – patterns 
Click for animation 
• Business case: typical “claim processing” process – claim, 
repair, control, invoicing, and assurance to pay 
SI 
PAR 
SI 
IPS 
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SI animated diagram 
Click for 
animation 
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Coordination between processes (1) 
• Simple event-based (which looks like a state machine) 
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Coordination between processes (2) 
1. state-machine 
2. synchronous invocation 
3. asynchronous invocation 
4. fire and forget 
5. parallel processes 
6. co-processes (pattern SI) 
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CLuster Of Processes (CLOP) 
• CLOPs are usually formed with functional processes 
which are implemented a particular business function, 
e.g. Field Services 
• And a “halo” of extra processes 
1. monitoring 
2. operating 
3. governance 
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Enabler group, supporting group and 
customer group of clusters 
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Implicit coordination between CLOPs (1) 
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Implicit coordination between CLOPs (2) 
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Implicit coordination between CLOPs (3) 
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Make coordination between CLOPs 
explicit (1) 
• Business Object (BO) lify-cycle as a process 
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Make coordination between CLOPs 
explicit (2) 
• Add enterprise-wide event dispatcher 
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Make coordination between CLOPs 
explicit (3) 
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Functional view at a system of processes (1) 
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Functional view at a system of processes (2) 
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Functional view at a system of processes (3) 
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VIEWS (2) 
• Common functional capabilities 
• Enterprise as a system of processes 
• Enhancing information security by the use of processes 
• Enterprise Risk Management reference model 
• Records management as an BPM application 
• Multi-layered implementation model 
• Agile solution delivery practices 
• Microservices 
• Various technologies around the implementation model 
• Modernisation of applications to become process-centric 
• Moving services to clouds 
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Dynamic provision of the access 
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Extra relationships between activities 
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Mandatory: different actors because of 
the separation of duties 
Potentially: different actors because of performance 
impact – avoid assigning mechanical (low-qualified “red”) 
activities and added-value (“green”) activities to the same actors 
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Extra relationships between activities 
• There are security-related relationships between activities 
• Example 
– “Activitiy_B” relates to Activity_A as “Validating the work” 
– These activities may be in different processes 
– No actors must be assigned to both “Role_1” and “Role_2” 
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Activity_A 
Carry out the work 
Activity_B 
Carry out the work 
Validating the 
work 
Role_1 
Role_2 
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BPM and information security: 
Extra relationships between activities 
• Doing the work 
– To which ROLES the work can be delegated 
– To which ROLES the work can be send for review 
• Assuring the work 
– other ACTIVITIES to audit (1st, 2nd and 3rd party auditing) 
– other ACTIVITIES to evaluate the risk (before the work is 
started) 
– other ACTIVITIES to evaluate the risk (after the work is 
completed) 
• Validating the work 
– Other ACTIVITIES to check the output (errors and fraud 
prevention) 
• Some ACTIVITIES must be carried out by the same actor, 
some ACTIVITIES must not 
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Process-enhanced security for electronic 
medical records 
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VIEWS (2) 
• Common functional capabilities 
• Enterprise as a system of processes 
• Enhancing information security by the use of processes 
• Enterprise Risk Management reference model 
• Records management as an BPM application 
• Multi-layered implementation model 
• Agile solution delivery practices 
• Microservices 
• Various technologies around the implementation model 
• Modernisation of applications to become process-centric 
• Moving services to clouds 
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Embed risk management into functional 
• Normal activities are enriched by “check-points” 
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processes 
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ERM reference model 
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VIEWS (2) 
• Common functional capabilities 
• Enterprise as a system of processes 
• Enhancing information security by the use of processes 
• Enterprise Risk Management reference model 
• Records management as an BPM application 
• Multi-layered implementation model 
• Agile solution delivery practices 
• Microservices 
• Various technologies around the implementation model 
• Modernisation of applications to become process-centric 
• Moving services to clouds 
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Typical problems with legacy software 
• Symptoms of becoming legacy 
– ad-hoc integration 
– difficult incorporation of new technologies 
– old programming techniques 
– expensive maintenance 
– heavy releases and upgrades 
– availability of industrial products for previously unique 
functionality (e.g. event management) 
– some functionality is a commodity right now (e.g. BPM and BRM) 
– just slow to evolve 
• What is the root cause? 
– Emergent/historical grow and not architected evolution 
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The goal of modernisation 
• Implement end-to-end processes with the maximum 
reuse of existing IT applications and infrastructure 
• Agile (with the pace of business) provisioning of business 
solutions 
• From disparate IT applications to a coherent business 
execution platform which will “liberate” people for 
business innovations 
• Business evolution to drive technical transformation 
• BUT Application as a unit of deployment is too big 
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How to carry out the modernisation 
• Step-by-step technical transformation by: 
1. Disassemble into services 
2. Add, if necessary, more services 
3. Assemble via processes 
• Combine various tactics: assemble, rent, buy, build, 
outsource, standardised, re-engineered 
• Incremental improvements and refactoring within a well-defined 
big picture 
• Intermix business evolution and technical transformation 
• Keep the users happy and feel secure 
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Monolithic applications are decomposed into 
interconnected services 
Monolith 
application 
GUI GUI screen 1 1 GUI GUI screen 2 2 GUI GUI screen 3 
3 
Business Business logic 
logic 
BO1 BO1 persistence persistence BO2 BO2 persistence 
persistence 
Business 
logic service 
Interactive 
service 1 
Interactive 
service 2 
Interactive 
service 3 
Coordination 
BO1 
persistence service 
BO2 
persistence service 
Assembled 
solution 
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How to coordinate? 
• Only the flow of data is traceable 
• Flow of control is explicit, because 
the primary importance is the result of 
working together, but not individual 
exchanges 
(think about football) 
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Several coordination techniques may be 
used together 
• By processes 
• By events (EPN) 
• By rules, work-load, etc. 
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Transformation from typical inter-application 
data flows to end-to-end 
coordination of services 
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Using events 
• To externalise the flow of control from existing monolith 
applications 
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Co-existence of a legacy application and 
a process solution 
• The danger of “DOUble Master” (DOUM) anti-pattern – 
particular data (actually a business object) are modified 
via application or process but not either 
• Few techniques 
– lock-down the data manipulation interface in the application (a 
screen) and provide a similar functionality in the process 
– dynamic provisioning of the access to a screen for a staff member 
who is carrying out a related activity (see next slide) 
– decomposition of a screen into separate functions, e.g. Create 
(out-of-process), Update (within-process) and Delete (separate-process) 
– combination of previous ones 
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Process-centric solutions 
Assemble via processes (1) 
• Business processes make bigger services from smaller 
services 
• The relationship between services and processes is 
“recursive” 
– All processes are services 
– Some operations of a service can 
be implemented as a process 
– A process includes services 
in its implementation 
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Process-centric solutions 
Assemble via processes (2) 
• Who (roles) is doing What (business objects), When 
(coordination of activities), Why (business rules), How 
(business activities) and with Which Results (performance 
indicators) 
• Make these relationships explicit and executable 
What you model is 
what you execute 
“The map is the app” 
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Process-centric solutions 
Multi-layer implementation model (1) 
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Process-centric solutions 
Multi-layer implementation model (2) 
B C 
A 
A - SharePoint 
B – in-house 
development 
C – SAP ECC6 
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Process-centric solutions 
Multi-layer implementation model (3) 
SAP BW/BI, etc. 
NetWeaver PI, 
SolMan, etc. 
NetWeaver 
BPM, etc. 
NetWeaver BRM, 
Java, ECC6, etc. 
XSD, Java, .Net 
SQL Server, 
Oracle, etc. 
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Multi-layer implementation model and 
other technologies 
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VIEWS (2) 
• Common functional capabilities 
• Enterprise as a system of processes 
• Enhancing information security by the use of processes 
• Enterprise Risk Management reference model 
• Records management as an BPM application 
• Multi-layered implementation model 
• Agile solution delivery practices 
• Microservices 
• Various technologies around the implementation model 
• Modernisation of applications to become process-centric 
• Moving services to clouds 
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Different deployment ZONEs 
© A. Samarin 2014 
HQ 
VIOLET ZONE - outside 
enterprise and service-provider- 
managed public 
cloud 
GREEN 
ZONE - 
outside 
enterprise 
and 
enterprise-managed 
private 
cloud 
YELLOW 
GOLD 
GOLD ZONE - classic 
within enterprise 
computing 
YELLOW ZONE - within 
enterprise private 
cloud 
BLUE ZONE - 
outside 
enterprise and 
service-provider-managed 
private 
cloud 
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Profiling services - example 
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Decision taking - example 
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Conclusion 
• Let us use the power of modern technologies to enable 
and drive societal transformation of our cities 
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• QUESTIONS? 
Thanks 
• EKSALANSI website: http://www.eksalansi.org 
• Blog http://improving-bpm-systems.blogspot.com 
• LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandersamarin 
• E-mail: alex@eksalansi.org 
• Twitter: @samarin 
• Mobile: +41 76 573 40 61 
• Book: www.samarin.biz/book 
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Smart-city implementation reference model

  • 1.
    Smart-city implementation referencemodel Alexander SAMARIN For IEC/SEG Smart-city plenary meeting in Atlanta, September 2014
  • 2.
    About me •A digital enterprise architect – from a programmer to a systems architect – creator of systems that work without me – broad experience: company, canton, country, continent • I believe that many improvements in operational excellence and strategy execution are achievable relatively easy • HOW I do what I do – architecting synergy between strategies, technologies, tools and good practices for the client’s unique situation, and knowledge transfer • WHAT is the result of my work for clients – less routine work, less stress, higher performance, higher security, less risk, higher predictability of results, better operations, less duplication and liberation of business potentials © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 2
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    Agenda • Context • Smart-city implementation reference model • Views © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 3
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    Introduction • Smart-city:a city architected to address public issues via ICT-based solutions on the basis of a multi-stakeholder municipally based partnership • A smart-city is a socio-technical system of systems • Relationships between social and technical elements should lead to the emergence of productivity and wellbeing • System: a set of interacting interdependent components forming an integrated whole © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 4
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    Complexity of smart-cityas a socio-technical system of systems • Almost unlimited life-cycle (unpredictable and incremental evolution) • Socio-technical system • Collaborative system • Industrialised system • Ability for rapid innovation is important • Variety of services (several hundred governmental services are listed in the Swiss e-government catalogue) • High level of security for personal data © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 5
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    Agenda • Context • Smart-city implementation reference model • Views © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 6
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    WHY implementation referencemodel (1) • All smart-cites deliver the same services, albeit in a different manner • Realisation of smart-city potentials would benefit from a holistic approach • BSI standard PAS 181:2014 © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 7
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    WHY implementation referencemodel (2) • Digital age - It is not about “just the website”, “online services” or “transactions” • Everything becomes digital: products, information, content, documents, records, processes, money, rights, communications – Digital eats physical • If digital then intangible thus news tools and new execution speed immediately – Fast eats slow • Digital things are at new scale – Big eats small • With this new speed and scale, there is no time for human intervention and errors in routine operations and at interfaces © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 8
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    WHY implementation referencemodel (3) • There is a way to combine diversity and uniformity • The problem of combining them is also known as “shared services” • Example - Business units (BUs) have different levels of computerisation – a standard solution from the IT department is not always good for everyone BU1 BU2 BU3 Standard solution Level of computerisation IT department © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 9
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    WHY implementation referencemodel (4) Level of computerisation © A. Samarin 2014 B C A B A B C BU1 BU2 BU3 1) Standard solution is based on processes and shared services 2) Each BU is moving to a similar architecture IT department Smart-city implementation reference model v4 10
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    WHY implementation referencemodel (5) • Considers together all implementations and architects the ability to reproduce results – ready-to-use solutions, tools, patterns and architectures – offers the best possible services for each citizen – becomes the centre of societal transformation – seamlessly incorporates innovations – implementable at your pace – secure by design © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 11
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    HOW does thisreference model work • Applies the power of enterprise architecture – platform-based implementation – enterprise-as-a-system-of-processes – microservices – modernisation of legacy applications • Forms a Common Urban Business Execution (CUBE) platform © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 12
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    EA explained (1) • Architect: a person who translates a customer’s requirements into a viable plan and guides others in its execution • Enterprise Architecture (EA): the process of translating business vision and strategy into effective enterprise change by creating, communicating and improving the key requirements, principles and models that describe the enterprise's future state and enabling its evolution and transformation © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 13
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    EA explained (2) • EA is the ideal “tool” to address the challenge of diversity and uniformity because EA is a holistic coordinator of people, processes and technologies in 4 dimensions: – business domains span – organisational unit, segment, enterprise, supply-chain, municipality, province, ministry, country, region, continent, etc. – architectural practices span – business, data, application, security, information, technology, etc. – time span – solution life-cycle, technology life-cycle, tool life-cycle, project life-cycle, enterprise life-cycle, etc. – sector span – detecting and re-using common patterns (good business practices) in unique processes from different sectors © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 14
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    EA views: projects,solutions, © A. Samarin 2014 capabilities and platforms Smart-city implementation reference model v4 15
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    © A. Samarin2014 EA views: time span Smart-city implementation reference model v4 16
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    EA views: businessdomains span vs time span © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 17
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    EA views: architecturalpractices span vs business domains span © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 18
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    EA: Many stakeholders(participants) • Citizens • Government authorities • Funding bodies • Local government stakeholders • National regulatory agencies • Political parties • Public service providers • Local businesses • IT vendors • Architects • Project managers • Local NGOs • External NGOs • Global businesses © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 19
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    Matrix of stakeholdersand views The numbers “2.2” etc. are references to chapters in the concept paper © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 20
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    WHAT reference model:many views (1) • Reference functional architecture • Partner and smart-city-entity interaction view • Partner view • Evolution of implementation view • The governmental-entities integration view • Paperless or digital work view • Platform-based implementation view – Platform-based approach – Platform-based implementation practices – Project management practices – Implementation governance view – Architecture-based procurement view © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 21
  • 22.
    WHAT reference model:many views (2) • Common functional capabilities • Enterprise as a system of processes • Enhancing information security through the use of processes • Enterprise Risk Management reference model • Records management as a BPM application • Multi-layered implementation model • Agile solution delivery practices • Microservices • Various technologies around the implementation model • Modernisation of applications to become process-centric • Moving services to clouds © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 22
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    Agenda • Context • Smart-city implementation reference model • Views © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 23
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    VIEWS (1) •Common functional capabilities • Partner and smart-city-entity interaction view • Partner view • Evolution of implementation view • The governmental entities integration view • Paperless or digital work view • Platform-based implementation view – Platform-based approach – Platform-based implementation practices – Project management practices – Implementation governance view – Architecture-based procurement view © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 24
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    Common functional capabilities(1) • Smart-city common capabilities – City-related registries: citizens, business, services – Inter-participants secure data and information exchange – Repository of community-important flows of events – Repository of community-important business objects (during their full life-cycle) • Smart-city domains capabilities – To be provided during the evolution of the platform © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 25
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    Common functional capabilities(2) • Good business practices • Universal business capabilities • Specialised enterprise capabilities • Basic technical capabilities (or technologies) © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 26
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    VIEWS (1) •Common functional capabilities • Partner and smart-city-entity interaction view • Partner view • Evolution of implementation view • The governmental entities integration view • Paperless or digital work view • Platform-based implementation view – Platform-based approach – Platform-based implementation practices – Project management practices – Implementation governance view – Architecture-based procurement view © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 27
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    Four communication patternsfor exchanges between a partner and the government Partners (citizen, business, and other organisations) Government 2. Patrner-declaration 1. Government-announce 4. Partner-demand Spread in time 3. Government-demand Spread in time 1. Government-announcement, e.g. broadcasting changes in a law 2. Partner-declaration, e.g. communicating a change of the partner’s address 3. Government-demand, e.g. inviting to pay taxes 4. Partner-demand, e.g. requesting a certificate (fishing license) © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 28
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    A partner-initiated-demand may required several exchanges between the partner and the government Government Time © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 29
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    The partner mayneed to deal with some ministries Government Ministry A Ministry B Ministry C Methodologies: + data modelling + electronic document exchange Time Tools: + standard data schemas + electronic signature • data flow (black dashed lines) © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 30
  • 31.
    E-gov coordinates partner’sinteractions Methodologies: • data modelling • electronic document Process with the government + + + + Government • control flow (black solid lines) • data flow (black dashed lines) Ministry A Ministry B Ministry C Time (ED) exchange + BPM discipline + process modelling Technologies: • standard data schemas • electronic signature + BPM suite © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 31
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    E-gov unifies thecommunication between the partner and the ministries Methodologies: • data modelling • electronic document (ED) exchange + BPM discipline + process modelling … … Process -- Government 2b Ministry B Time 2a x 2c • control flow (black solid lines) • data flow (black dashed lines) Technologies: • standard data schemas • electronic signature + BPM suite © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 32
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    E-gov provides asocial collaborative Methodologies: • data modelling • ED exchange • BPM discipline • process modelling + ED management + records management + collaboration + social Process extranet for partners + + + + Government Ministry A Ministry B Ministry C Time Technologies: • standard data schemas • electronic signature • BPM suite + ECM Social collaborative extranet • control flow (black solid lines) • data flow (black dashed lines) © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 33
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    VIEWS (1) •Common functional capabilities • Partner and smart-city-entity interaction view • Partner view • Evolution of implementation view • The governmental entities integration view • Paperless or digital work view • Platform-based implementation view – Platform-based approach – Platform-based implementation practices – Project management practices – Implementation governance view – Architecture-based procurement view © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 34
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    Partner’s view ©A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 35
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    VIEWS (1) •Common functional capabilities • Partner and smart-city-entity interaction view • Partner view • Evolution of implementation view • The governmental entities integration view • Paperless or digital work view • Platform-based implementation view – Platform-based approach – Platform-based implementation practices – Project management practices – Implementation governance view – Architecture-based procurement view © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 36
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    E-gov application architectureview Partners Social collaborative extranet e-gov service e-gov service e-gov service Coordination and integration backbone Existing application e-Government Existing application Existing application Government Technologies: • BPM suite • SOA orientation • ECM © A. Samarin 2014 37 Smart-city implementation reference model v4
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    E-gov traditional applicationarchitecture Partners Application Existing application Portal Application Existing application Application Existing application Government © A. Samarin 2014 38 Smart-city implementation reference model v4
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    E-gov introductory application architecture Partners Social collaborative extranet e-gov service e-gov service e-gov service Coordination and integration backbone Existing application e-Government Existing application Existing application Government © A. Samarin 2014 39 Smart-city implementation reference model v4
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    E-gov transitional application architecture Partners Social collaborative extranet e-gov service e-gov service e-gov service Coordination and integration backbone Existing application e-Government Existing application Coordination backbone Existing application Service Service Government © A. Samarin 2014 40 Smart-city implementation reference model v4
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    E-gov target applicationarchitecture Partners Social collaborative extranet e-Government e-gov service e-gov service e-gov service Coordination and integration backbone Service Service Service © A. Samarin 2014 41 Smart-city implementation reference model v4
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    E-social system applicationarchitecture Partners Social collaborative extranet E-social system Public service Social service Coordination and integration backbone Private service Professional service Voluntary service © A. Samarin 2014 42 Smart-city implementation reference model v4
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    Steps of evolutionin application architecture Introductory architecture Target architecture E-Social system architecture Portal-centric architecture Transitional architecture © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 43
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    VIEWS (1) •Common functional capabilities • Partner and smart-city-entity interaction view • Partner view • Evolution of implementation view • The governmental entities integration view • Paperless or digital work view • Platform-based implementation view – Platform-based approach – Platform-based implementation practices – Project management practices – Implementation governance view – Architecture-based procurement view © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 44
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    Integration process insteadof N-to-N connectivity Nx(N-1)/2 complexity N complexity © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 45
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    Use of manysecurity envelopes • Business (processing) envelope • Delivery (addressing) envelope • Transportation (routing) envelope © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 46
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    VIEWS (1) •Common functional capabilities • Partner and smart-city-entity interaction view • Partner view • Evolution of implementation view • The governmental entities integration view • Paperless or digital work view • Platform-based implementation view – Platform-based approach – Platform-based implementation practices – Project management practices – Implementation governance view – Architecture-based procurement view © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 47
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    Platform-based architecture (1) • Business concern: How to deliver many similar applications for various highly-diverse clients; define everything up-front is not possible (typical BPM or ECM project) • Logic – Developing individual applications will bring a lot of duplications – The provisioning of solutions should be carried out incrementally with the pace of the target client – Consider a platform 1. must standardise and simplify core elements of future enterprise-wide system 2. for any elements outside the platform, new opportunities should be explored using agile principles © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 48
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    Platform-based architecture (2) • Principles – The platform frees up resource to focus on new opportunities – Successful agile innovations are rapidly scaled up when incorporated into the platform – An agile approach requires coordination at a system level – To minimise duplication of effort in solving the same problems, there needs to be system-wide transparency of agile initiatives – Existing elements of the platform also need periodic challenge Delivery by applications Delivery by solutions A2 A1 A3 S2 S … 1 Platform S3 Functionality Scope © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 49
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    Overall platform governance • There are two primary types of activity. – On-going and centralised platform evolution – Rapid implementation of solutions as mini-projects • Platform evolution is carried out by an inter-organisational- units coordination committee © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 50
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    Advantages of thecorporate ECM platform D E V E L O P M E N T Functionality Process-centric integration Company-specific features Advanced features of a common ECM platform Basic features of a common ECM platform Generic web- environment 3 development platforms Dev env 1 Dev env 2 Development © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 51
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    Financial estimations •Current development cost & time for a collaborative application – Cost: 40 – 200 K $ – Time: 0,5 – 2 years • Corporate platform program cost & time – Cost: 600 K $ – Time: 1 year $$ • Expected development cost & time for a collaborative application within the corporate platform – Cost: 20 - 60 K $ – Time: 1 - 3 months N apps. N≈8 Without common platform With common platform © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 52
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    VIEWS (1) •Common functional capabilities • Partner and smart-city-entity interaction view • Partner view • Evolution of implementation view • The governmental entities integration view • Paperless or digital work view • Platform-based implementation view – Platform-based approach – Platform-based implementation practices – Project management practices – Implementation governance view – Architecture-based procurement view © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 53
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    Ladder of maturitymeta-pattern • Entities are permitted to advance at different paces in their ascent to the top of the “ladder”. © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 54
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    Component-oriented design •The platform is designed to be tools-independent by standardizing data, information, interfaces and coordination between various capabilities. © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 55
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    VIEWS (1) •Common functional capabilities • Partner and smart-city-entity interaction view • Partner view • Evolution of implementation view • The governmental entities integration view • Paperless or digital work view • Platform-based implementation view – Platform-based approach – Platform-based implementation practices – Project management practices – Implementation governance view – Architecture-based procurement view © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 56
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    Architecture-based agile project management • It combines decomposition with agile implementation of “architected” components © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 57
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    VIEWS (1) •Common functional capabilities • Partner and smart-city-entity interaction view • Partner view • Evolution of implementation view • The governmental entities integration view • Paperless or digital work view • Platform-based implementation view – Platform-based approach – Platform-based implementation practices – Project management practices – Implementation governance view – Architecture-based procurement view © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 58
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    Structural dependencies between various artefacts © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 59
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    Dynamic relationships betweenvarious Business initiatives (business-specific demand) Manage business by processes Business capabilities (business-generic demand) Manage processes BPM suite IT capabilities (IT-generic supply) Roadmap programmes (from AS-IS to TO-BE) Business demand IT supply Business strategic objectives Governance 1 2 3 2 2->5 2->4 1->3 1->4 2->5 2->4 1->3 2->4 3->4 5 4 3 4 Business priority Requested maturity Maturity improvement 1 2 3 4 4 1 1 2 3 2 2 4 4 5 3 IT tools (IT-specific supply) 3->5 3->4 1->4 3->4 2->4 3 Programme priority 5 4 3 4 4 artefacts © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 60
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    Implications and example • Implications – A formal way to discover points of the most leverage – The decision-making process is explicit and transparent – A strategy adjustment and validation becomes a routine on-going activity during its implementation (like functioning of the GPS navigator) © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 61
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    VIEWS (1) •Common functional capabilities • Partner and smart-city-entity interaction view • Partner view • Evolution of implementation view • The governmental entities integration view • Paperless or digital work view • Platform-based implementation view – Platform-based approach – Platform-based implementation practices – Project management practices – Implementation governance view – Architecture-based procurement view © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 62
  • 63.
    Architecture-based procurement •Separation of duties • Architecture group: selection of IT • Procurement group: acquisition of such IT components (licensees, installation, training, documentation, operations, etc.) • Of course, the architecture group must make the selection logic as explicit as possible. © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 63
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    VIEWS (2) •Common functional capabilities • Enterprise as a system of processes • Enhancing information security by the use of processes • Enterprise Risk Management reference model • Records management as an BPM application • Multi-layered implementation model • Agile solution delivery practices • Microservices • Various technologies around the implementation model • Modernisation of applications to become process-centric • Moving services to clouds © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 64
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    Enterprise as asystem of processes • In the context of enterprise functioning, business activities must be coordinated • Coordination maybe strong (e.g. as in the army) or weak (e.g. as in an amateurs football team) • Coordination maybe implicit or explicit • Coordination maybe declarative (laws) and imperative (orders) • Based on coordination, let us think about “levels of cohesion” 1. process patterns (coordination within processes) 2. processes 3. cluster of processes (coordination between processes) 4. system of processes (coordination between clusters of processes) © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 65
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    Process fragments –patterns Click for animation • Business case: typical “claim processing” process – claim, repair, control, invoicing, and assurance to pay SI PAR SI IPS © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 66
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    SI animated diagram Click for animation © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 67
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    Coordination between processes(1) • Simple event-based (which looks like a state machine) © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 68
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    Coordination between processes(2) 1. state-machine 2. synchronous invocation 3. asynchronous invocation 4. fire and forget 5. parallel processes 6. co-processes (pattern SI) © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 69
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    CLuster Of Processes(CLOP) • CLOPs are usually formed with functional processes which are implemented a particular business function, e.g. Field Services • And a “halo” of extra processes 1. monitoring 2. operating 3. governance © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 70
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    Enabler group, supportinggroup and customer group of clusters © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 71
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    Implicit coordination betweenCLOPs (1) © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 72
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    Implicit coordination betweenCLOPs (2) © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 73
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    Implicit coordination betweenCLOPs (3) © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 74
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    Make coordination betweenCLOPs explicit (1) • Business Object (BO) lify-cycle as a process © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 75
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    Make coordination betweenCLOPs explicit (2) • Add enterprise-wide event dispatcher © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 76
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    Make coordination betweenCLOPs explicit (3) © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 77
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    Functional view ata system of processes (1) © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 78
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    Functional view ata system of processes (2) © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 79
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    Functional view ata system of processes (3) © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 80
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    VIEWS (2) •Common functional capabilities • Enterprise as a system of processes • Enhancing information security by the use of processes • Enterprise Risk Management reference model • Records management as an BPM application • Multi-layered implementation model • Agile solution delivery practices • Microservices • Various technologies around the implementation model • Modernisation of applications to become process-centric • Moving services to clouds © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 81
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    Dynamic provision ofthe access © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 82
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    Extra relationships betweenactivities © A. Samarin 2014 Mandatory: different actors because of the separation of duties Potentially: different actors because of performance impact – avoid assigning mechanical (low-qualified “red”) activities and added-value (“green”) activities to the same actors Smart-city implementation reference model v4 83
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    Extra relationships betweenactivities • There are security-related relationships between activities • Example – “Activitiy_B” relates to Activity_A as “Validating the work” – These activities may be in different processes – No actors must be assigned to both “Role_1” and “Role_2” © A. Samarin 2014 (3) Activity_A Carry out the work Activity_B Carry out the work Validating the work Role_1 Role_2 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 84
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    BPM and informationsecurity: Extra relationships between activities • Doing the work – To which ROLES the work can be delegated – To which ROLES the work can be send for review • Assuring the work – other ACTIVITIES to audit (1st, 2nd and 3rd party auditing) – other ACTIVITIES to evaluate the risk (before the work is started) – other ACTIVITIES to evaluate the risk (after the work is completed) • Validating the work – Other ACTIVITIES to check the output (errors and fraud prevention) • Some ACTIVITIES must be carried out by the same actor, some ACTIVITIES must not © A. Samarin 2014 (4) Smart-city implementation reference model v4 85
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    Process-enhanced security forelectronic medical records © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 86
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    VIEWS (2) •Common functional capabilities • Enterprise as a system of processes • Enhancing information security by the use of processes • Enterprise Risk Management reference model • Records management as an BPM application • Multi-layered implementation model • Agile solution delivery practices • Microservices • Various technologies around the implementation model • Modernisation of applications to become process-centric • Moving services to clouds © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 87
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    Embed risk managementinto functional • Normal activities are enriched by “check-points” © A. Samarin 2014 processes Smart-city implementation reference model v4 88
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    © A. Samarin2014 ERM reference model Smart-city implementation reference model v4 89
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    VIEWS (2) •Common functional capabilities • Enterprise as a system of processes • Enhancing information security by the use of processes • Enterprise Risk Management reference model • Records management as an BPM application • Multi-layered implementation model • Agile solution delivery practices • Microservices • Various technologies around the implementation model • Modernisation of applications to become process-centric • Moving services to clouds © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 90
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    Typical problems withlegacy software • Symptoms of becoming legacy – ad-hoc integration – difficult incorporation of new technologies – old programming techniques – expensive maintenance – heavy releases and upgrades – availability of industrial products for previously unique functionality (e.g. event management) – some functionality is a commodity right now (e.g. BPM and BRM) – just slow to evolve • What is the root cause? – Emergent/historical grow and not architected evolution © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 91
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    The goal ofmodernisation • Implement end-to-end processes with the maximum reuse of existing IT applications and infrastructure • Agile (with the pace of business) provisioning of business solutions • From disparate IT applications to a coherent business execution platform which will “liberate” people for business innovations • Business evolution to drive technical transformation • BUT Application as a unit of deployment is too big © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 92
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    How to carryout the modernisation • Step-by-step technical transformation by: 1. Disassemble into services 2. Add, if necessary, more services 3. Assemble via processes • Combine various tactics: assemble, rent, buy, build, outsource, standardised, re-engineered • Incremental improvements and refactoring within a well-defined big picture • Intermix business evolution and technical transformation • Keep the users happy and feel secure © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 93
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    Monolithic applications aredecomposed into interconnected services Monolith application GUI GUI screen 1 1 GUI GUI screen 2 2 GUI GUI screen 3 3 Business Business logic logic BO1 BO1 persistence persistence BO2 BO2 persistence persistence Business logic service Interactive service 1 Interactive service 2 Interactive service 3 Coordination BO1 persistence service BO2 persistence service Assembled solution © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 94
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    How to coordinate? • Only the flow of data is traceable • Flow of control is explicit, because the primary importance is the result of working together, but not individual exchanges (think about football) © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 95
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    Several coordination techniquesmay be used together • By processes • By events (EPN) • By rules, work-load, etc. © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 96
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    Transformation from typicalinter-application data flows to end-to-end coordination of services © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 97
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    Using events •To externalise the flow of control from existing monolith applications © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 98
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    Co-existence of alegacy application and a process solution • The danger of “DOUble Master” (DOUM) anti-pattern – particular data (actually a business object) are modified via application or process but not either • Few techniques – lock-down the data manipulation interface in the application (a screen) and provide a similar functionality in the process – dynamic provisioning of the access to a screen for a staff member who is carrying out a related activity (see next slide) – decomposition of a screen into separate functions, e.g. Create (out-of-process), Update (within-process) and Delete (separate-process) – combination of previous ones © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 99
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    Process-centric solutions Assemblevia processes (1) • Business processes make bigger services from smaller services • The relationship between services and processes is “recursive” – All processes are services – Some operations of a service can be implemented as a process – A process includes services in its implementation © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 100
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    Process-centric solutions Assemblevia processes (2) • Who (roles) is doing What (business objects), When (coordination of activities), Why (business rules), How (business activities) and with Which Results (performance indicators) • Make these relationships explicit and executable What you model is what you execute “The map is the app” © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 101
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    Process-centric solutions Multi-layerimplementation model (1) © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 102
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    Process-centric solutions Multi-layerimplementation model (2) B C A A - SharePoint B – in-house development C – SAP ECC6 © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 103
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    Process-centric solutions Multi-layerimplementation model (3) SAP BW/BI, etc. NetWeaver PI, SolMan, etc. NetWeaver BPM, etc. NetWeaver BRM, Java, ECC6, etc. XSD, Java, .Net SQL Server, Oracle, etc. © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 104
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    Multi-layer implementation modeland other technologies © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 105
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    VIEWS (2) •Common functional capabilities • Enterprise as a system of processes • Enhancing information security by the use of processes • Enterprise Risk Management reference model • Records management as an BPM application • Multi-layered implementation model • Agile solution delivery practices • Microservices • Various technologies around the implementation model • Modernisation of applications to become process-centric • Moving services to clouds © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 106
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    Different deployment ZONEs © A. Samarin 2014 HQ VIOLET ZONE - outside enterprise and service-provider- managed public cloud GREEN ZONE - outside enterprise and enterprise-managed private cloud YELLOW GOLD GOLD ZONE - classic within enterprise computing YELLOW ZONE - within enterprise private cloud BLUE ZONE - outside enterprise and service-provider-managed private cloud Smart-city implementation reference model v4 107
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    © A. Samarin2014 Profiling services - example Smart-city implementation reference model v4 108
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    © A. Samarin2014 Decision taking - example Smart-city implementation reference model v4 109
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    Conclusion • Letus use the power of modern technologies to enable and drive societal transformation of our cities © A. Samarin 2014 Smart-city implementation reference model v4 110
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    • QUESTIONS? Thanks • EKSALANSI website: http://www.eksalansi.org • Blog http://improving-bpm-systems.blogspot.com • LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandersamarin • E-mail: alex@eksalansi.org • Twitter: @samarin • Mobile: +41 76 573 40 61 • Book: www.samarin.biz/book Smart-city implementation reference model v4 111 © A. Samarin 2014

Editor's Notes

  • #9 iCMG webinar
  • #49 http://improving-bpm-systems.blogspot.com/search/label/PEAS
  • #66 http://improving-bpm-systems.blogspot.ch/2014/03/enterprise-as-system-of-processes.html
  • #67 http://improving-bpm-systems.blogspot.ch/2011/06/practical-process-patterns-dip.html
  • #68 http://www.slideshare.net/samarin/process-practical-patterns-si