We’re confident that our Open Architectures Readiness Assessment will provide your
organisation with the right strategy to move towards Open Standards.
2. Structure
01. What are Government doing?
02. Why would you do it?
03. What do you have to do?
04. How do you get ready?
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4. Challenges & Aims
Government ICT has a bad name
Projects are too big
Not enough reuse/adaptation
Poor interoperability/integration
Vendor lock-in
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5. Challenges & Aims
Introduce new central controls
to ensure greater consistency
and integration
Take powers to remove excess capacity
Create a level playing field for open
source software
Greatly streamline procurement and
specify outcomes rather than inputs
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7. Objectives
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Reducing Waste and Project Failure and Stimulating
Economic Growth
• Mandation of open standards and procurement of open source solutions to make
ICT solutions fully interoperable to allow for reuse, sharing and scalability across
organisational boundaries into local government chains.
• Apply open standards to create a level playing field upon which SME’s can compete
so as to put an end to the oligopoly of large suppliers that monopolise ICT
provision.
8. Objectives
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Reducing Waste and Project Failure and Stimulating
Economic Growth
• Mandation of open standards and procurement of open source solutions to make
ICT solutions fully interoperable to allow for reuse, sharing and scalability across
organisational boundaries into local government chains.
• Apply open standards to create a level playing field upon which SME’s can compete
so as to put an end to the oligopoly of large suppliers that monopolise ICT
provision.
Creating Common ICT Infrastructure
• Enable the delivery of an open platform based on open standards that helps to
avoid lengthy vendor lock-in, allowing the transfer of services or suppliers without
excessive transition costs, loss of data or significant functionality.
• Enable the citizen to access government documents with the document format
reader of their choice through the application of compulsory open standards.
9. Objectives
Using ICT to Enable and
Deliver Change
• A common ICT platform which provides
the opportunity for a diverse range
of providers to generate innovative
solutions.
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10. Objectives
Using ICT to Enable and
Deliver Change
• A common ICT platform which provides
the opportunity for a diverse range
of providers to generate innovative
solutions.
Strengthening Governance
• A governance structure that scrutinises,
measures and enforces compliance with
mandated standards and actions.
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11. Chapter & Verse
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15. Departments will reuse and share ICT solutions and contracts, rather than
purchasing new or bespoke solutions. The mandation of specific open standards will
make ICT solutions fully interoperable to allow for reuse, sharing and scalability across
organisational boundaries into local delivery chains. Government will not commission new
solutions where something similar already exists.
16. Where appropriate, government will procure open source solutions. When used
in conjunction with compulsory open standards, open source presents significant
opportunities for the design and delivery of interoperable solutions.
36. The Government will create a common and secure ICT infrastructure based on a suite
of agreed, open standards which will be published and updated. The use of common
standards can make ICT solutions fully interoperable to allow for reuse, sharing and
scalability across organisational boundaries into local delivery chains. The adoption of
compulsory open standards will help government to avoid lengthy vendor lock-in, allowing
the transfer of services or suppliers without excessive transition costs, loss of data or
significant functionality.
39. The Government believes that citizens should be able to read government documents
with the standardised document format reader of their choice. The first wave of
compulsory open standards will determine, through open consultation, the relevant open
standard for all government documents.
13. Simple 4C’s Rationale
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Compliance
Cost
Open Standards
/ Open Source
Collaboration
Citizen
14. Comply or Explain
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Open Standards: Open Opportunities
Chapter 2: Open Standards Mandation
6. For all new government IT contracts, specifications must comply with
compulsory open standards, which have been mandated by the Cabinet
Office. For legacy systems, migration to newly agreed or updated versions of
compulsory open standards should be part of the technology refresh lifecycle.
15. Tangible Benefits
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Adopting this policy enables:
an open standards-based infrastructure
for government IT which reduces the
need for bespoke integration between
non-standardised solutions
sharing of information and data across
and beyond government boundaries
opportunities for third parties to build
on government information and service
delivery
fairer competition that allows a diverse
range of suppliers with different
delivery models to deliver government
IT solutions
greater choice for the Government to
reuse solutions and switch between
standardised products and components
reduced risk of lock-in to a particular
vendor
19. Readiness
Rip and replace
Tearing up Microsoft ELA
Linux on the desktop
Non-enterprise-grade software
Rolling your own
Unsupported solutions
Positive discrimination
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Creating processes that
allow you to consider Open
Architectures
Developing a clear
understanding of when to adopt
them and when not to
Establishing the capability to
realise the benefits of Open
Architectures when you do
select them
20. Readiness
The secret of success in life is
for a man to be ready for his
opportunity when it comes
Benjamin Disraeli
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25. Define Readiness
Raring
Ready
Reserved
Resistant
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In this stage companies are strong proponents of open architechtures both
internally and externally. They prefer open architechtures all other things being
equal and they actively collaborate with the community to develop and share
open architectures.
In this stafe companies have a clearly articulated open architectures policy.
They are comfortable evaluating, designing, transitioning and operating open
architechtures. Open architechtures are subject to the same processes as
proprietary software.
In this stage companies realise they already have some open architechture,
recognise the benefits and want it to proliferate. They are actively trying
to understand how to remove the barriers to adoption and biases towards
proprietary solutions.
In this stage organisations resist the adoption of open architechtures.
Occasionally that resistance is manifest as overt policies preventing their use
but more often than not they simply lack the awareness, poilicy and processes
neeed to facilitate the user of open architectures.
27. Envision Readiness
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Future State Depiction of Readiness
Strategy
Service
Management
Architectures
Systems
Management
...informed by best practice and industry norms...
Pragmatically Designed by
Qualified Consultants
28. Transformation
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Ambitious but Achievable
balances costs, scope, pace, capabilities, benefits and timing
Gap Analysis
Prioritise
Requirements
to Bridge
Gap
Design
Transformation
Enablement
Program
Reassess
Readiness
Implement
Discrete
Transformation
Elements
29. Targets
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Step 1
Step 2
Scan Environment for
Opportunities
Identify Potential Target
Benefits
Cost
Reduction
End-User
Applications
Enhanced
Quality
Middleware
Improved
Performance
Database
Tools/Utilities
Increased
Agility
Operating Systems
Virtualisation
Server Hardware
Network
Private
Hybrid
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Calculate and Compare
Storage
Step 3
Competitive Analysis
ROI Calculation
Cloud
TCO Calculation
30. Reporting Readiness
70 page report designed to inform and advise with
degrees of granularity appropriate to different readers
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31. Accreditations
Just some of our awards, accreditations and partnerships
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