163. In this chapter, the position of CSDA with respect to some other standards is explained. In particular, the relationship with TOGAF, GAMSO, GSBPM and GSIM is presented.

A. TOGAF

164. CSDA accepts and embraces the way The Open Group's TOGAF standard defines and positions capabilities. Capabilities are the content of an organization's strategic planning effort. Capabilities are the "what", TOGAF provides the "how" of capability design and development. TOGAF also describes the use of architecture (business, information systems, data and technology) in that development.

B. GAMSO and GSBPM

165. Probably the most important relationship between CSDA and GAMSO is in Capability Development. The initial implementation and further (iterative) development of CSDA capabilities falls into the GAMSO activity area Capability Development. The use of TOGAF, and more specifically the application of the (iterative) ADM development method is strongly recommended in this context.

166. The relationship between CSDA capabilities and GAMSO is shown in Figure 13: CSPA vs GAMSO. As explained before, the CSDA core capabilities are the capabilities that directly enable statistical production, that is, the storing, exchanging, processing of data and metadata including the description (prescriptive or descriptive) of data. All this overlaps with the Production activity area of GAMSO, and therefore with GSBPM. The CSDA cross-cutting capabilities are a further elaboration of (data related aspects of) some of the GAMSO Corporate Support activities, notably Manage Information & Knowledge, Manage Quality, Manage Business Performance & Legislation and Manage Statistical Methodology.

167. CSDA considers the two GAMSO Corporate Support activities Manage Consumers and Manage Data Suppliers as more operational level activities. For that reason, CSDA places these two in the Core capabilities (as lower level capabilities of Information Logistics).

168. Figure 13 shows these relationships graphically.

Figure 13: CSPA vs GAMSO

169. CSDA (core) capabilities are used throughout the statistical process. For that reason, there is no one-to-one relationship between CSDA capabilities and GSBPM process phases. Most CSDA capabilities are needed in many GSBPM (sub) phases, and any GSBPM (sub) phase needs more than one CSDA capability. Some further elaboration of this is presented in the examples in chapter XII.

C. GSIM

170. There is a strong relationship between CSDA and GSIM. As explained before in this document, CSDA is about exchanging information and therefore models concepts that are also modelled in GSIM, albeit from different angles. CSDA is looking to model the behaviour (of the real-world object), whereas GSIM models the same as information objects, in order to be able to capture and exchange information about those objects. Nonetheless, also GSIM has a notion of the (expected) behaviour of such objects. This is most notable in active objects such as "Exchange Channel" (and its specializations) and "Process", but also "Information Provider", "Information Consumer". And there are quite a few other GSIM objects that are mentioned in CSDA.

171. Hopefully, CSDA will eventually provide sufficient information for NSI's to be able to design, build and implement capabilities. GSIM then will provide attributes to describe the (relevant) characteristics of such capabilities. Where the implementation still contains elements that can be configured, GSIM will provide the attributes to specify the parameters that define such configurations.

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