Executive Summary
Boundaryless Information Flow achieved through global interoperability in a secure, reliable, and timely manner
This document details the project experienced by the Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) who leveraged Enterprise Architecture and its Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles for building and adopting the National e-Service Bus under the Bangladesh National Digital Architecture (BNDA) framework.
Specifically, this document will focus on the evolution of the BNDA and the National e-Service Bus, the problem statement and objective of the project, the details of the National e-Service Bus, details of the project, including architecture, stakeholders, and their roles, project highlights, outputs, lessons learned, and challenges and future applicability of e-Governance for larger causes beyond their organization.
This document will be of interest to anyone who wants to learn about leveraging the Enterprise Architecture domain for developing an enterprise-level integration platform and services, typically for a public/government organization.
By leveraging the principles of Enterprise Architecture and tailoring the principles of the TOGAF® Enterprise Architecture framework and its SOA, the BCC was able to apply and demonstrate how architectural thinking can help in building and delivering complex integration across various government ecosystems. In this respect, the practice of Enterprise Architecture covered in this document supports The Open Group vision: Boundaryless Information Flow™.
Foreword
Countries and organizations are moving towards Open Standards. These have a highly significant role in enabling global collaboration, international exchange of products and services, strengthening regulatory requirements, realizing interoperability, facilitating market competition, and channeling organizational efforts towards differentiated services based on innovation by standardizing the foundational aspects and minimizing vendor lock-in resulting from proprietary solutions.
Since launching in 2017, The Open Group India Awards (the India Awards) has recognized organizations and teams in South Asia, the Middle East, and African regions that have reached the pinnacle of achievement in applying The Open Group Standards, open-source software, best practices in Enterprise Architecture, IT management, cybersecurity, and Digital Transformation. The central essence of the awards is aptly captured by the four Ds: Digital Innovation, Delivery Reliability, Data-Driven, and Dynamic Workforce.[1]
This document is derived from the submission made by the Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) to the India Awards 2022. The India Awards provide a platform for organizations to demonstrate their experience in the adoption of the Open Standards developed by The Open Group. This document outlines the BCC’s journey to build the National e-Service Bus aimed at establishing and strengthening e-Governance using the TOGAF® Standard, a standard of The Open Group. The aim is to infuse practical wisdom and understand how Open Standards are put into practice in various contexts.