Success story Government of Aragon

Public Administration

Identified needs

The SDA (Digital Services of Aragon) has identified the need for a Data & Analytics Governance platform that can be integrated into an information management ecosystem combining both technical and functional perspectives. The platform in question is intended for use by the Government of Aragon, so it must be intuitive to facilitate management by business users. As requirements for said platform, it is envisaged that:

  •  Enable the exchange of data from multiple sources, regardless of the underlying technologies.
  • For each data collection, identify which system is responsible for the information.
  • Responsibility and control over the data made available on the platform is retained by the source systems.
  •  From the perspective of each data source, it should be possible to view statistics on data usage and audit its appropriate consumption. Procedures and mechanisms must be defined so that citizens can assume governance over their data.
  • The implementation of interoperability mechanisms for data structures.
  • The incorporation of the necessary technical measures to ensure that access to data can only be carried out under the conditions defined according to the type of data. At the same time, it must be possible to maintain the traceability of each access to data so that it can be audited.

Use case

In an incremental approach, the first phase involves the development, implementation and subsequent maintenance of a comprehensive data governance platform for the Government of Aragon.

This first use case focuses on two fundamental pillars, aligned with the needs identified by the Government of Aragon and Digital Services of Aragon:

As the first pillar, the integtechnical ration: Build a technological platform that allows for the definition, parameterisation, and standardisation of the mechanisms necessary for data exchange and communication between the different systems of the Public Administration of the Autonomous Community of Aragon.

As it isgundercarriage, the model of gGovernment: Generation of data governance procedures and their implementation on the platform, which act as a catalyst for improving public services, serving as a lever for the definitive advancement of the administration, based on the provision of digital services with the citizen at their core.

Objectives set

The Use Case selected and developed at Anjana Data aims to provide the Government of Aragon with a platform that allows:

  • Identify the sources of data produced by each organisation.
  • Identify the movement of this data to the consumption data hub (data centraliser).
  • Once this data has been centralised, identify the different consumption data present in the data hub.
  • Based on identification, generate consumption models that guarantee the democratisation of data in the execution of administrative procedures.
  • Above all, identify the different roles in data management within the data lifecycle.
  •  Once identified, define the responsibilities of these roles, providing them with the necessary tools and functionalities to carry out the actions that enable them to fulfil these responsibilities.
  •  Finally, bringing everything together and thanks to the Anjana Data platform, we can map the lifecycle of governed data, enabling us to obtain metrics and indicators for subsequent iterations and use cases based on the proposed governance models and metamodel.

Solution architecture

 

Benefits obtained

Once the objectives set out in the Anjana Data Platform had been achieved, a number of benefits were obtained:

  •  Anjana Data has centralised the operationalisation and definition of data access policies and procedures, making it possible in an agile manner.
    •  By defining data management roles in Anjana Data, the current definition of organisations and job positions (RPTs) has been given a layer of data governance based on best practices that is fully customised for the Government of Aragon.
    •  Through the fully customised definition of the metamodel (Data Catalogue and Business Glossary), Anjana Data has provided the Government of Aragon with a one-stop shop where technical data assets, business assets and the relationship between them are catalogued, enabling the lineage from production to consumption to be obtained.
    •  Anjana Data has implemented a customised Data Marketplace based on data contracts and customised membership relationships that allow service managers to grant access to data based on procedures to be executed.
    •    Anjana Data, in turn, feeds into a security datamart, which is the basis on which access to data is granted.
  • Data exchange and communication between the different systems of the Government of Aragon is carried out in a governed manner thanks to their management on the Anjana Data platform.
  • At Anjana Data, on a technical level, not only are the characteristics of each piece of persistent data found, but the platform has also been equipped with the characteristics of its movements through the cataloguing and definition of the technical processes of Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL).
  •  These definitions of movements are not only being used from an informational point of view for their management, but the information present in Anjana Data is directly the configuration read by ETL engines to execute the data movements that are applied to the different information systems.
  •  Through a custom-built portal for the Government of Aragon, using the various integrations enabled by Anjana Data via APIs, users are offered an experience focused on data consumption, allowing them to obtain the information available in Anjana Data and even act on it securely and in real time.
  •  Thanks to this integration, the roles responsible for the area/body of the Government of Aragon have been provided with the capabilities to:
    • Consult, manage, and modify access to various consumption data.
    • Establish new ways of consuming data based on administrative procedures.
    • Grant the necessary permissions to access the data that different users need to access in order to carry out administrative processes.

Challenges overcome

  • Design, implement and maintain a governance model based on civil service positions rather than nominal positions, respecting the current definition.
    •  Thanks to Anjana Data's versatility and configuration capabilities, it has been possible to change the user view on the platform, shifting from a nominal view based on individuals to an organisational view based on RPT or job position.
    •  At the same time, work has been done on the governance model with a view to delegating the management of Anjana Data's organisational units and users to the Government of Aragon's agency and RPT management system through continuous integration.
    •  Thanks to this integration capability, the definition of organisations and RPTs is provided with a layer of data governance by associating the Data Governance roles defined in Anjana Data with each RPT within each organisation to which it belongs.
    • An intermediate layer called Security Datamart has been implemented, which collects the information present in Anjana Data; in terms of which RPTs have access to which fields in the DataHub, this Datamart is in turn the basis for granting or revoking physical access to data.
  •  Design, implement, and maintain a metamodel that responds to the production of information based on the centralisation of various sources in a DataHub and a consumption model based on the execution of administrative procedures.
    • On the one hand, Anjana Data has implemented a data source cataloguing model that allows the producer, manager and custodian of the data in the source system of each area or body to be identified at all times, through field-level cataloguing. The aim of this is to be able to obtain this information applied to the different fields of the DataHub.
    •  On the other hand, data contracts are used to represent the different administrative procedures that enable access to the DataHub fields necessary to carry them out.
    •  Finally, through personalised membership relationships between RPTs and data contracts, the RPTs that are granted access to the data to carry out the administrative procedure are indicated, thereby allowing data consumption in a governed and auditable manner.