Press Release: SPECIAL MINISTER OF STATE

1/7/2006

The Australian Government is promoting the use of international standardsto help deliver better services to Australian citizens.

“Government agencies must join up their IT systems in a reliable,secure and cost effective way to support business” said the Minister.

The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) is helpingAgencies by providing a platform called GovDex to provide resources to maximise the use of international standards.

“GovDex includes standards developed under the auspices of the United Nations and This means we can benefit from the work of governments and businesses across the world” the Minister said.

The government’s recently released E-Strategy ….

UN/CEFACT

Moving Beyond Trade …?

TAX SS

Technology standards, content standards, process standards

Political and audit accountabilities

Stovepipes / agencies

Cross-agency standards

One face to the public

People and businesses

What about one face to “PAA”?

Common View for OASIS eGov TC?

One face to SW

developers?

Policies, processes, pressures

Canberra, 6 December 2005

Example

Centrelink (Social Security) Integration with Employers

The Problem

• Casual workers receiving income support must estimate their income.

• Often they get it wrong and owe $ to government.

• If we can interface directly with employer payroll systems we can eliminate this problem.

Scenario

• Eliminates manual processes

• Reduces admin costs • Eliminates error • Simpler for citizen and

business• Reduced CentreLink debt

Business

Person

CentreLink

2 Pay salary

1 Au

tho

rise

3 Report payroll

PayrollSystem / provider

Au

to

4 Pay benefit

Real time automated payroll reporting:

• Diversity of payroll systems • Cost effectiveness for SMEs• Whole of government consistency• Privacy and security• Managing a large community

But how to manage:

Approach• Apply standards

– At the technical layer by defining re-usable “profiles” for the application of web service standards.

– At the semantic layer by building models from the same library of re-usable core components.

• Maximise Re-use– Of integration components by providing a framework where all

MYOB customers can leverage the same plug-in.– Of community data by providing a publish once, discover many

times registry of businesses and their services.

• Be practical– Cost should be less then benefit for any business large or small.– Don’t expect users to buy new equipment or learn new things.

Employer

BackendSystem

Payroll Req

RecAck

Payroll Rsp

RecAck

How has GovDex been used: Centrelink

• The GovDex method of developing and deploying the integration to employers has reduced costs enough to make this implementation possible.

Concepts – “profiles and patterns”

CLK Business

Yes I got it

Understood

Payroll Request

üPayroll response

ü

Profile 1 - Interaction Patterns

Overview

Profile 2 WS-**

Choreo-graphy

Profile 4 ebXML Choreo-graphy

Profile 3WS-**

Messaging

Profile 5ebXML

Messaging

Pro

file

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Mod

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PartyA PartyB

Request Document

Receipt Ack SignalAcceptance Signal

Response Document

Receipt Ack SignalAcceptance Signal

Pro

file

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• Define how to use standards • Promote interoperability • Reduce deployment effort• Leverage common patterns

Request – response transaction pattern

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