IMGS 2015 - Transport for London - Alun Pearsey

Deploy to the CloudAlun Pearsey – UK Country Manager (SGI)

IMGS 2015

8-Jun-15 ©2014 Intergraph Corporation 2

• Benefits of the Cloud

• Customer Case

Study

• Intergraph’s Cloud

Computing Strategy

• Questions

Topics

Cloud Architecture and Business Models


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BENEFITS OF THE CLOUD


Elasticity

Accessibility

Scalability

Availability

Pay as you GoChanges the way users interact with

Geospatial solutions

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Why customers consider

Cloud-based GISSpiralling internal IT costs

IT not the GIS application specialist

Dynamic nature of GIS solutions

Reduce time spent configuring the GIS

solution

Increase time focusing on the

business

CUSTOMER CASE STUDY

Transport for London

Intergraph® Selected by Transport for London to Manage Assets in the Cloud

Intergraph delivers complete hosted GIS solution that improves productivity

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., April 10, 2014 – Intergraph® has been appointed by Transport for London (TfL), to implement a cloud-based GIS solution for the integrated body responsible for implementing and managing London’s transport strategy and services. The new solution for TfL’s Commercial Development Directorate provides improved GIS performance, greater accessibility and transparency of property assets and more up-to-date and improved functionality.

Using GeoMedia®, Intergraph’s hosted environment will consolidate and enhance capabilities and data that were previously spread across in-house desktop systems, a commercial web provider and an external portal. It will support a diverse set of users with capabilities to document, maintain, leverage and consult TfL property asset records.

The unified service centralises data and delivers different levels of access to directorate users, other TfL and Greater London Authority users as well as the public under TfL’s transparency program, which aims to boost publicly available information. The system also simplifies data management, increasing the refresh rate of TfL’s small-scale mapping data from Ordnance Survey from annually to every six weeks.

“Intergraph’s cloud-based GIS solution provides a more rich, robust and user-friendly application,” said Robert Widz, Intergraph’s EMEA geospatial executive director. “By easily sharing more current information, organizations can adapt to changing demands and deliver greater value to a broader user base. We’re proud to support TfL’s efforts.”


Transport for London Case Study


Customer’s GIS Implementation• Desktop Intergraph GIS solution

• Desktop Application Install Issues

• Out of Support Database Server

• Environment Performance Issues

• New requirements for:

• Increased Data Sharing

• Enhanced Web GIS capabilities

Approach taken with customer


• Gather Requirements

• Identify Risks

• Build Test Environment

• Customer Testing

• Security Model

• Support Model

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Gather Requirements• Identify GIS solution

components that can be hosted

• Level of management required

• Central data storage• Secure access• Secure data transfer


Hosted Service Overview

Hosted Service for PAR

TfL / GLA Portal User

PAR Desktop

User

General Public

Portal User

Hosted Applications

· Manage PAR Records· Manage PAR Databases· Translate GIS/CAD Data

Hosted PAR Portals

· Provide access to PAR Portals

· Access PAR documentation held on TfL estate (TfL / GLA users only)

· Perform queries against PAR records and published data

Managed Service

· All hosted applications maintained by Intergraph

· Annual base line upgrade· Data backup and recovery· Disaster recovery

View Property Asset Data

through Portal

Maintain Property Asset

Register

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View Property Asset Data

through Portal



Identify Risks• For Intergraph:

• Reliance on Cloud Provider

• Cloud Provider Service Level Agreement

• Infrastructure

• For the Customer:• Data Location

• Service Level Agreements

• Infrastructure

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Build Test Environment• Using Amazon Web Services Cloud

• Fast deployment using Amazon Machine Images

• Application, Database and Web Servers

• Entire environment built in days



Customer Testing• Limited involvement by customer’s IT

• Formal Test Events

• Required no installation of client-side software

• Compared performance against in-house GIS implementation



Customer Testing

The indicators used to measure the performance were based on the following two tests when using GeoMedia Desktop:

Example of performance “before and after”:

• Test 1. Open our normal workspace and measure the time to open (600+ layers and queries)

• Test 2. Once within the application, use the functionality to set the map display to 1:1250, which enables display of other datasets – and again measure the time taken.



Customer Testing Results

Test Customers Internal

Infrastructure

Intergraph Hosted

Environment

Performance

Improvement

Test 1 Variable time of between

4 – 22 minutes

18 seconds 1333% - 7333%

Test 2 Variable time of between

1 – 7 minutes

6 seconds 1000% - 7000%



Security Model

• Network Security – Strict IP filtering

• Application Security – Desktop application access restricted

• Named User Access

• Password Policy with expiring passwords and locking of accounts

• Data Transfer Encryption

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Support Model

• Intergraph responsible for entire implementation

• System Maintenance – Environment health checks and preventative

maintenance

• Disaster Recovery – Leveraging Amazon EC2 99.95% data centre

availability

• Data Backup – 99.99% availability and 99.999999999% durability

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Added Value of Hosted Service


Managed Services

• Annual Software Upgrades of Intergraph and Safe Software

applications

• Ordnance Survey MasterMap Data Updates

• Baseline upgrade of Server Operating Systems and Database software

to maintain Microsoft Mainstream or Extended Support.



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TfL & GLA PAR Web Portal

General Public PAR Web Portal

General Public PAR Web Portal

Application Access via Remote Desktop Protocol

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Secure FTP

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Amazon EC2 Europe Region

Storage Volumes

Amazon Availability ZoneReplicated across Availability Zones

Environment Backup & Recovery

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Database ServerPRDDBSVR1

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Domain ControllerTFLDC1

Application ServerPRDAPSVR1

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Web ServerBackup Image

Web ServerBackup Image

Database ServerBackup Image

Database ServerBackup Image

Domain ControllerBackup Image

Domain ControllerBackup Image

Application ServerBackup Image

Application ServerBackup Image

Storage Snapshots

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Technology in use

• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Service

– Windows Server 2008 R2 EC2 instances

– Microsoft SQL Server running on EC2 instance

• Amazon Machine Images (AMI) are used for

environment backup and disaster recovery

• Automatic backup to Amazon S3 for resilience

Technology in use

Microsoft Remote Desktop

• Microsoft Remote Desktop Remote App

technology used for deployment of desktop

applications

– GeoMedia Desktop

– FME Desktop

– SQL Server Management Studio

Physical Landscape of Hosted Service

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User Types and Locations

TfL / GLA PARWeb Portal

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TfL / GLA PARWeb Portal

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General PublicPAR Web Portal

User

General PublicPAR Web Portal

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Data Tier

Application Tier

File Share

Web Server

Microsoft SQL Server

Installed Components:TfL Property Data, CAD/GIS files, Raster Imagery(See List 7 for full details)

Installed Components:

Numerous(See List 3 for full

details)

Installed Components:SQL Server

SQL Databases(See List 8 for full details)

Presentation Tier

Amazon EC2


Active Directory FlexLM

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Domain Controller

Application Server

Remote Desktop Protocol to run hosted applications remotely

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Database Server

Installed Components:Microsoft SQL

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Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2

PAR Desktop UsersPAR Desktop Users

Web Portal users will access web sites through an

internet browser

Assigned Components:(See List 5 for full details)

Assigned Components:(See List 6 for full details)

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TfL Estate Public Internet

TfL Estate

Public Web Portal

Restricted Access Web Portal

GeoMedia Desktop

INTERGRAPH CLOUD COMPUTING

STRATEGY


Intergraph’s strategy to

leverage the cloud in its

solutions includes four major

areas:

1. Application architecture based on

SOA

2. Certifying Cloud platforms

3. Cloud management tools, including

Cloud friendly licensing policies

4. Cloud services consumption and

integration

Summary

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