Journey into Cloud and Portal

OZRI 201915th November 2019

Tim NoyceLocation SA Reference Group

Department for Environment and Water

Location SA – The Story

2010

2013

2016

2019

2020

20??

Collaboration

Sharing

Innovation

Evolution

What is Location SA?

Location SA is a collaboration between South Australian state government agencies to

share spatial information and related web services.

Could be described as a “Coalition of the Willing”

Genuine commitment across state government agencies to• Adopt Best Practices

• Leverage innovation

• Reduce costs through collaboration and sharing

What is Location SA?

Delivers authoritative

spatial data and web service

solutions

Program Management

and Technical support

Sharing Infrastructure

Enterprise GIS Software components

Collaboration and sharing

between members

What is Location SA?

2010

Authoritative Data Sharing

2013 Authoritative Web Services

2016

Shared Portal for ArcGIS

2018

Commence Migration to Cloud

201910 Portal for ArcGIS instances in Cloud

Location SA has evolved over time

What is Location SA?

“An opportunity to build something bigger than we could

as individual member agencies”

Who is Involved in Location SA?

Majority of SA Government Agencies

2019 / 2020 - 19 members

Country Fire Service

Department for Energy and Mining

South Australian Housing Authority

Department of Human Services

Department for Trade, Tourism and Investment

State Emergency Services

Forestry SA

SAFECOM

Department for Innovation and Skills

Courts Administration Authority

Department for Environment and Water

Department of Primary Industries and Regions

Environment Protection Authority

Department of The Premier and Cabinet

SA Health

Attorney-General’s Department

Department for Education

Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure

SA Water

How is Location SA Managed?

Location SA is managed as a Membership

• Has a defined multi-level Governance structure

• Defines partnership obligations through a set of Membership Documents

• Leverages Membership Subscriptions to generate a budget

• Coordinates Work tasks through a Program Manager and Change Management Framework

Location SA Governance Framework

Guide the management of data services and portal content

Direct Program Manager and work activities

Governance and oversight at the State Govt level

Governance Group

Reference Group

Data Managers

Group

Portal Managers

Group

Location SA Membership Documents

Location SA MoAA

Signed by all members

Data Sharing Agreement (based on the

Public Sector Data Sharing Act 2016)

Signed by all members

Statement of Services

Define scope for different subscription offerings

Technical Documentation for Services

Technical documentation

Supporting Frameworks

Governance and Change Management

Location SA Service Offerings

Foundation Subscription

Core Location SA services

• All members sign-up for the Foundation subscription

Solution Subscription

Builds upon the Foundation Subscription

• Location SA hosted solutions

Enterprise Subscription

Builds upon the Foundation Subscription

• Adds an agency branded Portal for ArcGIS instance running in

AWS cloud environment

Premium Services

Add to Enterprise Subscription

• High Availability portal

• 24/7 Support

Disaster Recovery

Govt Security Framework

SAN Storage and backup

Active Directory

Shared Infrastructure

AWS Virtual Private Cloud

AWS Asia Pacific Region

- Sydney

Lead Agency ICT Security

oversight

Designed by AWS Security

Specialist

Data back-up across multiple

Availability Zones

State Govt Firewall

Standard and High

Availability options

AWS Direct Connect to StateNet*

Location SA Technical Environment

On Premise AWS Cloud

Why move to the Cloud?

Why is Location SA migrating its technical environment to the cloud?

• Ageing on premise physical infrastructure with increasing demand for access to services

• Increasing data maintenance processingo “Weekend” refresh processes running into week day business hours

• Support for Emergency Management sector – CFS, SESo The need for “highly available” solutions with 24/7 support

Application Showcase

Examples illustrating how Location SA shared infrastructure and web service offerings

have been integrated into a departmental GIS platform to support a range of business

outcomes

NatureMaps

• Public facing web

mapping application

• Geocortex

Essentials

• Location SA • Layer web services

• Base maps

• Address / location

search

Application Showcase

EnvMaps

• DEW web mapping

application

• Geocortex

Essentials

• Location SA • Authoritative data

• Base maps

• Land Data Services

(property ownership)

Application Showcase

Fire Information

Management System

(FIMS)

• Internal DEW business

application

• Esri JavaScript API

• Survey123

• Location SA• Editable feature service

• Base maps

• Portal for ArcGIS

Application Showcase

Incident Mapping

Online Tool

• Portal web app

• Web AppBuilder

Developer Edition

• Location SA • Authoritative data

• Base maps

• Address / location

search

• Sharing of incident data

between Portals during

an Emergency

Application Showcase

AMLR Online

Mapping Module

• Business app

• Web AppBuilder

Developer Edition

• Location SA • Authoritative data

• Base maps

• Address / location

search

• Dynamic Workspace join

Application Showcase

Challenges

Although Location SA has evolved and expanded over a number of years it still faces a

number of challenges

• Increasing demand, small budget and reliance on in-kind / collaborative supporto Location SA does not have a dedicated source of funding

• Esri Enterprise Agreement expires 30th June 2020

• Connection between AWS and the Government ICT environment o Required to support some business workflows

Future Directions

2010

Authoritative Data Sharing

2013 Authoritative Web Services

2016

Shared Portal for ArcGIS

2018

Commence Migration to Cloud

201910 Portal for ArcGIS instances in Cloud

??

• New SA Geospatial Strategy

• Further delivery of authoritative data

• Expand range of spatial service solutions

= Continued Evolution

Summing Up

Data Sharing Collaboration

Technical Support

Infrastructure Innovation

Membership Governance

Subscriptions

Location SA

Questions?