Steven RamageExecutive Director, OGC

OSGIS, 22 June 2010University of Nottingham

The ‘open’ issue - value

Mary McRae, OASIS

Standards are like parachutes: they work best when they're open.

In our increasingly connected world

How much is geospatial?

The open geospatial opportunity

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Standards make the distribution of geospatial information understandable — not just for government technologists, managers, and decision support analysts, but for all stakeholders, including industry partners.

NASA study key findings, 2005

locating people and saving lives = value

Need to determine value

aip aviation benefit bim building catalogs citygml

consortium data defence disaster earth geosemantics

geospatial geoss global grid hydrology

ogc open source information infrastructure

security interoperability linked data location iso rights management gml security metadata

standards systems value web services

meteorology military models observation ocean science

search sensor smart grid societal environmental soa

How do we define value?

Health

Education & Research Sustainable Development

Energy

Consumer ServicesGeosciencesEmergency Services

eGovernment

Utilities

Josh Lieberman, Traverse Technologies –“ Value from the OGC is enabled not just

because interoperability projects and test beds take place, but because the OGC has made them possible in the first place. Without the OGC they wouldn’t even have happened. ”

Knowledge exchange network

(term borrowed from EuroGeographics)

Ian Painter, Snowflake Software - “ Sponsors get incredible value for money

through access to multiple sets of experts and technologies. It would cost them a lot more in terms of time and money if they were not able to use the OGC process. Participants also benefit from direct feedback for product research. ”

Cost savings through collaboration

Kylie Armstrong , Landgate –

“ When you are delivering spatial web services on behalf of 20 government agencies to more than a 1000 organisations running their own spatial systems, you need standards. Using the internationally recognised OGC and ISO standards for both the architecture and web services has been essential to our success. ”

Tangible measures of return

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Intangible measures of return

Locating international displaced personsSupporting poverty alleviation initiatives

Protection from catastrophic loss of records

Protection/enhancement of natural resources

Improved timeliness and quality of data/services

Legal compliance/protection against claims Catalyst for partnerships and information (knowledge) sharing

Value must be measured

Geospatial Enterprise Integration Maturity Model

June 24, 2009 (Revision of White Paper originally published March, 2006 by David Sonnen, John Moeller and David LaBranche)

A value model for standards?

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Benefit Value

Company exposure

Technology risk reduction

Knowledge gain

Saving the environment

Saving lives

Human security

Total Cost of Participation

Effort Impact Financial cost

Meeting attendance

Code management

Document review

Time

Maintenance cost

Opportunity cost

Membership fee(offset by reduced “Certified OGC Compliant” license fee)

Travel costs

For every $100 million spent on projects based on proprietary platforms, the same value could have been achieved with $75 million if the projects had been based on open standards.

NASA study overall results, 2005

Prepared by: Xia (UIUC) & Zhao (UNCC), 2009

Note: A 7-point scale is used (1: Strongly disagree with the benefits; 7: Strongly agree with the benefits.)

Ability to add new tech

System integration time

Responsiveness

Cost reduction

Employee productivity

4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9 5 5.1

5.02

4.91

4.92

4.76

4.46

Operational Benefits

Partner relationship

New product

New business

Customer understanding

Market understanding

Customer services

0 1 2 3 4 5 6

5.17

5.41

5.18

4.55

5.71

5.26

Strategic Benefits

Plan A - Pursue standards. Commit resources. Transition products. Work with competitors and partners.

Plan B - Continue working in isolation. Keep proprietary control of customers.

Standards decision for technology providers

The standards decision (alternate view)

Understand, define and communicate value

Thank you for listening

Standards help us save

➼ Time ➼ Money

➼ Energy ➼ Economies

➼ LivesEye on Earth SummitDec 2010, Abu Dhabi