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Technology Strategic

Vision

City & County of San Francisco


Department of Technology (dT)
Blair Adams CTO
July 16th, 2008
Change Drivers

Mayor’s goals:

Consolidation, standardization, simplification

Disaster preparedness and recovery

National, state and local economic pressure

Do more with less

Competitive nature of Technology globally

Evolves in dog years…
Change Enablers

Foundation for Execution

Infrastructure & skills

Reduce product to market interval

Virtualized collaboration environment

Technological convergence

Simplify training and support requirements


Shift from build to borrow when possible

Legacy applications convergence

Shift from monolithic to more nimble composite
applications

Steer requirements away from ‘shadow’ systems
Decision Criteria
• Open-
Layers
• Phones
• Word-
FiberEnterprise?
JUSTIS
SFMAPS
• SFGTV
Email
• Press
Radio
SFGOV
STAMP
• WAN
No
• Sugar- Yes SaaS?
CRM
No Yes Competitive?

No Yes
Borrow
Build
Buy
Technology Convergence
Legacy
ESC
.xls/.mdb
Legacy
ESC &
Free
Microsoft
Com-mercial
Open
Office
off the shelf
Source
Sharepoint
(COTS)
Software
(MOSS)
(FOSS)
R&D Lifecycle
Productization
Observation

Pilot
Support
Discovery
Prototype

Pilot Deploy
‘Fab Lab’
Production
Design
Disaster Recovery
O&M

Develop
Operations
Business Continuity
Maintenance
Architectural ‘Tiers’

Presentation (Zero client)

Middleware (SOA)

Data Warehouse (ERD / DD)


Document
Business
Content
Business
Search
Portal
Extend
‘Composite’
Network
Retire MS
DocumentsExcel
Reporting
Interconnectivity
Reports
Novell
Word
Consolidation
Creation
Single of of
Web updates /
sign-on
small
‘point’
applications
Active solutions
Directory

Production (MOSS)
Management
Intelligence
Automation
System
Code
Free & Open Source Software
Research and
Timesheets
Documents
Surveys
WebGIS
Forums
Control
Gallery
Blogs
HRM
CRM
Wiki
PPM

Development

Green box indicates prototype


Yellow box indicates pilot
<Reactive>
<Location
<Proactive>
<Predictive>
Intelligence>
✓Time
Who
Where
When to repair?

Composite Applications
<soa>
✓Cost
</Location
Whento Intelligence>
How repair?
✓Cost
Whatby area?
✓Cost Geographic
</Reactive>
</Proactive>
over time?
Constituent
Information
Enterprise
✓Projected Asset
costs?
Relationship
</Predictive>
Management
System
Management

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