Abstract
Organic Enterprise GIS Architecture: Laying foundations for more sustainable environments
Track: Electric Utilities
Author(s): Igor Albornett
Current IT architectural trends actively promote the benefits of integrated, normalized and service oriented Enterprise designs. As a natural consequence, the Enterprise GIS systems design practice has embraced this approach, introducing a new set of variables, layers and flows, into traditionally isolated, controlled and rather stable systems.
Unfortunately, these new pieces also have an unexpected potential to degrade and limit the proposed solutions, minimizing most of the anticipated gains of such novel approaches. This issue is particularly sensitive for enterprise architectures where GIS is a core piece of the puzzle like in the utilities sector. If core components are not properly padded with sufficient logic and flow controls, the impact can be significant to the business as a whole.
In this paper we discuss issues and options to avoid these shortfalls, designing more sustainable enterprise GIS systems architectures, and their projection in time, as programmes of work.
Igor Albornett
Powerco
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