About the Project

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Product Vision Board (in progress)

Product Roadmap

Overview (in progress, copied from Gate 1 Deck)

• The program is unable to meet its services standards given the burden created by the current paper-based process therefore; at high risk of remission with the introduction of the new remission policy.
• There is an opportunity for the Vessel Registry business line to undertake an end-to-end service design that is user-centered and driven by operational needs. This work is currently supported by an MOU signed with the CSPS.
• MSS business lines require information collected during the Vessel registration process to manage and deliver their programs to Canadians and the Canadian industry. The management of the vessel registration program, its data, and related information are fundamental to other business processes and programs within MSS (e.g. Marine Insurance Unit, Regional Inspection programs), and within other TC groups (e.g. Navigation Protection Program and Wrecked, Abandoned, and Hazardous Vessels Act-WAHVA). However, the current registry systems are not connected to other program applications and do not provide direct access to vessel tombstone data (lack of interoperability and data-sharing capacity for end-users).
• Vessel registration data also supports the information requirements of other government departments (i.e. DFO, CBSA, and CRA) to allow them to fulfill their mandates. However, the current registry systems do not have reporting capabilities.

Project delivery

• Discovery phase
• Alpha phase
• Beta phase
• Live

Product Vision

What are we looking to provide, and what problems are we trying to solve?

For registrars

Fully digital

• No need to handle paper documents
• Ability to seamlessly work remotely
• All tools and material Centralized

 Service request processing

• Process payment
• Easily see payment status (has this service been paid for?)
• Training material
• Legal opinions
• Streamline processing of service requests
• Can review and process requests, issue certificate without changing applications
• Incorporate business rules and procedures into app to ensure consistency and reduce mental load
• Add guidance and instructions to help with training and onboarding

Cut down administrative overhead

• Easy to find requests

Facilitate communication with clients

• Automatically generate correction correspondence
• Communicate with client through application?

For internal TC staff

Enhanced tools for internal stakeholders

• Reporting and analytics for management
• Access to relevant data for inspectors and policy
• Ability to flag and bring forward vessels of concern for further action
• Link between Registry and Inspection services to easily flag issues for verification
• Keep data up to date and correct

For clients

Submit online

• Manage personal details and vessels
• View status

Streamline submission process

• Eliminate separate paper forms, simpler way to collect information
• Fewer things to fill out
• Dynamic digital forms based on client needs

For external partners (e.g. enforcement, search and rescue, brokers etc.)

• Enhanced data access to facilitate operational needs
• Ability to submit and manage requests on behalf of clients

Desired Business Outcomes

The following is a list of desired business outcomes (also shown in DOS 32801):

OUTCOME A:  Increase compliance with Government of Canada on service directives and programs

Key Performance Indicators (KPI)

About Vessel Registry

About the service

Business Capabilities/Services provided

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Identified Business Capability Services

• Ports?
• Vessel Management
• Owner
• Search
• Mortgage
• Fleet
• Charterer
• Point in Time (see MEMS, MSIS II)
  • we need to understand what this means for Point in time; we should be able to do this as a feature

System/Business Capability

• Ballast Water - full CRUD; own database
  • pulls from THETIS and APCIS
  • does an update on own data if required
• Port State is same as Ballast Water
  • Port State system of record for all foreign vessels
• SIRS - System of Record for Domestic
• SCVRS (Small Vessel) - System of Record
• SRCS (Ship Registry - Large Vessel) - System of Record
  • May duplicate Port State data

Systems that use core vessel data or replicated version of vessel data

• ACES - query/creat/update; has own database; MPDIS integrated with ACES
• CPSCS-DET - query of port state
• CPSCS-VTP - CRUD of Port State connects to Port State
• CPSCSWQS - read Port State
• CPSCS-INNAV - push an IMO to port database and creates a vessel traffic record (interim which eventually gets validated and links to existing - see Vessel Tracking Record
• EPAIRS - creates records that have IMO number; no links to Port State (data integrity)
• MEMS - read-only from Port State, SIRS, ACES, MTRB, SCVRS for vessel tombstone data and then keeps a read-only copy
• MIUS - stores its own vessels and owners
• MPDIS - maintains its own database
• MSDQT - read from all core systems
• MSIS II - read-only query for Point in Time; keeps data in own database
• NTARS-MSDTS - query of all four core systems and the duplicates the data
• PID - CRUD; maintains its own database

General Notes

• Regardless of what solution we come up with, we need to consider document storage for completed forms and all other required supporting documents e.g. photographs, ship plans, etc.
  • Azure Storage, RDIMS, GCDocs??