Affiliations: Italian National Institute of Statistics, Istat
Correspondence:
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Corresponding author: Mauro Bruno, Italian National Institute of Statistics, Istat. E-mail:mbruno@istat.it
Abstract: National Statistical Institutes are currently facing significant changes:
innovative approaches that promote integration and standardization are
replacing the traditional statistical production chain, based on the
vertical integration of survey-specific tasks. Given the significant impact
of such innovative approaches, it is necessary to manage and harness the
changing process. The adoption of an Enterprise Architecture (EA) helps in
this direction by identifying business needs, improving collaboration across
an organization and ensuring that the technology is aligned to the strategic
vision. In this scenario, CSPA offers a ``reference architecture'' for a wide spread
of the ``plug and play'' approach in designing, implementing, sharing and
reusing statistical software solutions, largely based both on statistical
standards such as GSBPM and GSIM, and on the ''service-oriented
architecture'' model. The implementation of modernization programs is a current issue, requiring
several National and Supra-national investments. Istat is currently
investing on CORE as the principal solution for SOA-based process
industrialization. This paper presents CORE main features and highlights how CORE meets
important goals, such as process automation, software sharing and support
for collaborative work.
Keywords: Enterprise architecture, CSPA, statistical services, SOA
