The Adapters Club

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The Adapters Club Part of the ROADS Supplier
Engagement Programme A Review of the Programmes
Achievements and Future Direction Terry Dailey
Programme Director EISCO Krakow June 3rd 2005
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Office of the Deputy Prime Minister e-Gov
Developments For Local Authorities
ODPM - Programme Board
ODPM Executive Steering Group
E-Innovations Programme (33 Projects)
Support Capacity Programme (Multiple Projs)
Nat Projects Programme (23 Projects)
Partnerships Regional Programme (50 Projects)
ROADS Programme (5 Prog W/S)
IEG Programme (Ongoing)
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National Projects

• Benefits
• CRM
• Digital TV
• e-citizen
• e-democracy
• e-payments
• e-procurement
• Knowledge Management
• Mobile Technology
• Working with Business
• Schools Admissions
• Local Environment
• Standards Body
• Smartcards
• e-Trading Standards
• RYOGENS
• Workflow
• Valuebill
• FAME

National Projects provide councils with the key
electronic services and building blocks, without
having to build them from scratch.
Phase 1 - define the requirements - prove the
concepts - develop products Phase 2 - product
dissemination. - All local authorities e-enabled
by Dec05
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Products?

• Standards
• Such as XML schemas, methodologies, etc
• Dynamic documents
• toolkits, guidance, checklists, templates,
  reports (any document that might need updating
  over time)
• Software
• for download - any software that end users can
  install themselves or using a 3rd party
• Centrally hosted service
• any technological service provided centrally
  rather than for self install

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Setting the Scene, Supplier Engagement
To inform and create a knowledgeable supplier and
Local Authority market place to help facilitate
the successful adoption and rollout of the
products resulting from the National Projects
Define standard business processes and technical
standards for the development of integration
adapters between front office and back office
systems. Lead for this is Bharat Vyas
Create a market intelligence portal to enable
LAs, suppliers and other parties to share
knowledge and information on e-Gov initiatives.
The lead for this is Suki Bhandari
Market Intelligence
Adapters Club
Supplier Engagement
Agree standard MOUs for the take-up/adoption of
the products from the National Projects with
prospective suppliers and creation of communities
of interest. Lead for this is Bob Unsworth.
To run a series of events workshops to engage
with and share knowledge across suppliers and
facilitate their engagement with LAs. Lead for
this is Tim Wootton-Beard
Supplier Take-Up
Events/Workshops
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Introduction to The Adapters Club

• Key component for integration between systems
• Makes Middleware effective for multiple systems
• Std definitions based on ESD-Toolkit Processes

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The ESD-Toolkit
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Application integration
Front-to-back-office, cross-organisation,
cross-partnership, multi-agency, cross-vendor
integration - requires software adapters
(translators) between applications
Partner or multi-agency Application
Front-office Application
Back-office Application
Back-office Application
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Adapters Provide the Connectors
Integration Server
Finance System
CRM System
Business Process Controller
Common Object Model
Transformation
Transformation
CRM Data Model
Data Model
Adapter
Transport Layer
Adapter
Adapter
Adapter
Adapter
Adapter
Housing Repairs
Social Services
Planning
Portal
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Simple Example Common Objects and Transformations
Address Common Object
CRM System
Legacy System
Common Customer
1 -3742
Customer
Customer
100234
130 State Street
130 State Street
Address
Address
Address
95010
Zip
State
California
State
USA
Country
Postal Code
95010
Postal Code
U.S.
Country
Country
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What are the typical integration challenges?

• integration components have been
• Proprietary closed specific to each software
  vendor, application, operating system and even
  software release
• Expensive, typically costs 10k - 40K per
  adapter and you may need dozens of them
• Historically lacking standards and standards
  enforcement
• Build once, sell many - suppliers previously
  had no incentive to re-use code

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Adapters Club Workstreams
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Adapters Club member involvement
Adaptris Anite Arete CAPS Capita Core
Logic DataPro Esprit ESRI/Caps Fiorano Fujitsu I
nfoshare Inmezzo Innogistic Lagan Lorien
PS Mapinfo Mayrise Microsoft NDL Northgate Orchar
d Plantech Princeton Quovadx Remedy SIA Siebel SX3
Turing MS Visionware White Plains
Tower Hamlets Gloucester Newcastle Blackburn Camde
n Somerset Havant/Test Valley Hounslow
Huntington North Lincolnshire Lewisham Lambeth C
roydon Norwich
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Anecdotal Evidence

• We have quoted the National Adapter Club and the
  principles it is trying to follow in our
  statement of requirements because we see that as
  the only way to deliver affordable and
  sustainable integration solutions.
• In the procurement of Council Tax and Benefits
  replacement systems, we have been able to
  negotiate integration costs which are a fraction
  of what bespoke integration costs would be by
  agreeing to adopt the schemas drawn up by the
  club.
• The achievement in bringing together competing
  suppliers to agree standard schemas is a major
  one and I feel it must be continued if Council's
  are to achieve the levels of integration required
  for joined up service delivery.
• Source - Ron Hillaby, ICT Application Services
  Mgr Newcastle Upon Tyne CC
• Integration is one of the top blockers for LAs
  to take up the e-Pay projectthey can put a
  figure of 60m on the cost of Adapters (excluding
  the consulting services)apparently some LAS
  started to implement e-Pay then stopped because
  of the size of the integration hurdle Source
  - E-Pay NP / RSe Consulting

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Completion of Existing Plans

• Market and promote to LAs
• Complete work stream activities and schema
  definitions
• Publish and build content on LAMIP
• Develop accreditation processes for suppliers
• Recruit new suppliers

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Summary

• 50 Suppliers now involved
• 25 LAs engaged
• 100 XML Schemas being developed
• 1st Three Adapters commissioned
• 10 NPs Engaged (e.g. Ryogens, e-admissions)
• Content published on LAMIP
• Schema IPR is open source
• Suppliers own IPR in their own adapters

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Screen Shot - Homepage
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Screen Shot Supplier Usage By LA
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Screen Shot Adapters Club (1)
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Screen Shot Adapters Club (2)
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Total LA Registrations (2nd May)
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Total LA Registrations (2nd May)
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Contact

• Terry Dailey
• tdailey_at_lambeth.gov.uk