Making the most of DNASDelivering real returns on public data

Presented by: Derek O’HalloranDate: 14th June 2007

What’s it all about? 7-8 years ago

Efficient Government

Private Sector -> Public Sector

Process Efficiencies

Leverage Existing Data

Data Sharing - Intelligence

Wouldn’t it be good if we had a standardised list of all the

addresses in the UK?!

Bright sparks in Whitehall 5-6 years ago

All services are delivered to

A Person at

A Place

A Realisation

A Brilliant Idea

Simple and straightforward… (?)

LLPGLocal Land & Property

Gazetteer

NLPGNational Land & Property Gazetteer

DNASDefinitive National

Address ScotlandCAG

Corporate Address Gazetteer

PointerPointer & Mosaic

GeoHubNSAI

National Spatial Address Infrastructure

MADMaster Address

Database

AcaciaProject Acacia

So for councils now:

3 years and lots of money developing ‘Gazetteers’

Compelled to use them - ‘Realise Efficiencies’

Sitting with a flat file of local addresses…

Complete lack of expertise on using data

Huge, further, un-budgeted expense

Turning to QAS…

PRO

Housing Rev & BensSocial WorkWebEducation

PROPROPROPRO

QAS

Windows Browser Unix

QA Address Data File(PAF)

QASQAS

What our customers asked for…

PRO

Housing Rev & BensSocial WorkWebEducation

PROPROPROPRO

QAS

Windows Browser Unix

Corporate AddressGazetteer

QASQAS

What is QuickAddress Gateway?

Provides access to councils own

‘Gazetteers’ through standard QAS tools

QuickAddress Gateway

QuickAddress Database Builder

LLPG LLPG LLPG

Gazetteer module

Available to Local Authorities/Councils

Precursor to ability to build other customer data

New issues: an old solutionQA Pro: 3 areas of features customers get benefit from:

Data

Their Own +

Multiple Gaz

PAF, Names

Business etc.

Functionality

Fuzzy Matching

etc

25% uplift

Integration

P&G APIWeb

Universal

Quick

Easy

Alternatives

Other models being sold to councils:

Individual

Connectors

Data

Dumps

Web

Services

“Address

Data Hub”

Too

Expensive

Not

Scalable

Only

For Web

Not

Practical

Competition

Competition

Competition

Competition

Competition

Case Study: North Lanarkshire

Long-standing QAS customer – IT Department

Gazetteer Project lead by eGov team

Referred to QAS by Scottish Executive

Key Reasons for Buying:

Minimal Development Timescales

Access to National Gazetteer

Demonstrable ROI

Who else is it for…?

•32 Local Authorities

•Central Government

•Emergency Services

•Health

•Criminal Justice

•Utilities…

Nearly time for coffee…

What Worked Well

Bringing different areas of the business togetherE-Govermment / Citizen 1st

Departments

IT

Treating data as a Corporate Asset

Lessons Learnt

Communicate with teams earlier rather than later!

Thank you for listening

Presented by: Derek O’Halloran Date: 14th June 2007

www.qas.co.uk