Making the most of DNAS Delivering real returns on public data Presented by: Derek O’Halloran Date: 14 th 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 Whitehall5-6 years ago All services are delivered to A Person at A Place A Realisation A Brilliant Idea

Simple and straightforward… (?) LLPG Local Land & Property Gazetteer NLPG National Land & Property Gazetteer DNAS Definitive National Address Scotland CAG Corporate Address Gazetteer Pointer Pointer & Mosaic GeoHub NSAI National Spatial Address Infrastructure MAD Master Address Database Acacia Project 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 PRO QAS Windows Browser Unix QA Address Data File (PAF) QAS

What our customers asked for… PRO Housing Rev & BensSocial WorkWebEducation PRO QAS Windows Browser Unix Corporate Address Gazetteer QAS

What is QuickAddress Gateway? Provides access to councils own ‘Gazetteers’ through standard QAS tools

QuickAddress Gateway QuickAddress Database Builder LLPG Gazetteer module Available to Local Authorities/Councils Precursor to ability to build other customer data

New issues: an old solution QA 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&GAPIWeb 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

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 together E-Govermment / Citizen 1 st 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: 14 th June