Data Management – Running Systems and Ongoing Projects
Data Management – Running Systems
and Ongoing Projects
in the National Bank of Romania
Andreea Simona Varjoghe
SIRBNR Data Management Division
Statistics Department
Workshop on Integrated Management of Micro-databases
Deepening Business Intelligence within Central Banks’
Statistical Systems
Porto, 20-22 June 2013
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Data Management – Running Systems and Ongoing Projects
Outline
•SIRBNR (Reporting Information System for Credit Institutions)
•RAPDIR (Direct Reporting Information System for reporters
other than Credit Institutions) – parallel-run
•DW – BI (Data Warehouse – Business Intelligence) - ongoing
project
NBR's information infrastructure (overview ):
• Dedicated/specialized systems (Accounting, Registers etc.)
• Intranet / Internet sites
• Reporting systems (SIRBNR, RAPDIR)
• HardWare, SoftWare platforms, communication infrastructure
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SIRBNR (Reporting Information System for Credit Institutions)
Core-business areas:
• Financial
stability
• Monetary policy
• Prudential supervision etc.
• Balance
of payments
• Monetary statistics
• Interest rates statistics
• Financial markets
Several integrated data-bases (one for each business area)
Reporters:
Started:
• Credit
• January 2007
Institutions
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SIRBNR (Reporting Information System for Credit Institutions)
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Aggregated Data;
Own Reported Data
DOMAIN 1
Primary Data
& Calculated
Indicators
DOMAIN 2
Primary Data
& Calculated
Indicators
SHARED DATA
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Nomenclatures
Registers etc.
NBR
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Primary Data
& Calculated
Indicators
National/
International
Institutions
(BCE,
Eurostat,
IMF etc.)
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FORMS
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SIRBNR (Reporting Information System for Credit Institutions)
Main features:
• Unique
secure channel: SIRBNR portal (web page
accessed with user/pass authentication)
• Unique format: XML message
• Minimized number of connections
• Standard flow of response messages (preliminary,
business and cross-check validation)
• No redundancy
• Centralized administration
• Nomenclature harmonization (standards enforcement)
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RAPDIR (Direct Reporting Information System for
reporters other than Credit Institutions)
Status: parallel - run
Reporters:
• International trade in services
• Non-bank financial
• Foreign direct investment
institutions
• Insurance companies
• Investment funds
• Natural persons
• Non-financial
corporations etc.
Administration:
• Statistics Department
- Central & Branches
Areas:
• Foreign accounts transactions
• Non-monetary transactions
• Assets and liabilities of
investment funds and non-bank
financial institutions
• Foreign exchange transactions
• Portfolio investment etc.
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RAPDIR (Direct Reporting Information System for
reporters other than Credit Institutions)
WEB
Interface
DATABASE
Applic.
Interface
Input:
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Process &
Output:
Processing (calculation, aggregation etc.)
-Validation
-Notification
-Load into DB
-Aggregated
Data
-Own
Reported
Data
Microdatabase
Microdatabase
Forms
Shared Data
Microdatabase
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NBR users
Reports
(PDF,
Excel,
CSV)
Data
...
Microdatabase
Aggregated
...
(browser)
- XML (online,
offline)
- Online
Forms
Microdatabase
National/
International
Institutions
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SIRBNR & RAPDIR
Functions (for NBR users & administrators):
• Data processing:
• Reports for process control (reporting progress)
• Data query (transactions)
• Final validation assignment
• Data extraction in EXCEL, PDF, CSV
• Aggregation, other calculations
• Final reports (Excel/CVS, PDF)
• Metadata management
• Nomenclatures management
• System administration (Define the reporting calendar,
Send/receive announcements, User management etc.)
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Data Warehouse – Business Intelligence (on-going)
Premises:
• Diversity, high quality and huge amount of collected data
• Good performance of the SIRBNR reporting system
• Imminent start of the new reporting system (RAPDIR)
• Large business areas (and number of reporters) covered by
reporting systems
Data Sources:
• Data at micro and aggregate level from SIRBNR and RAPDIR
databases
• Excel/Word/PDF files
• Other systems and databases
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Data Warehouse – Business Intelligence (on-going)
NBR
Users
BI
BI Tools: fast data access, predefined & ad-hoc reports, dashboards, graphics,
predictive analysis, drill down analysis, what-if scenarios etc.
DATA WAREHOUSE
DW
ETL
ETL (Extraction, Transformation, Load): data validation, calculation/aggregation, update etc.
Data
Sources
SIRBNR
RAPDIR
Other sources:
Files (Excel, Word, PDF
etc.), Paper Documents,
Information Systems etc.
Other
Microdatabases
NBR
NBR & other institutions
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Data Warehouse – Business Intelligence (on-going)
Main advantages:
• Better
insight knowledge of the business areas
• Fast access to a large amount of data
• Ad-hoc reports
• Dashboards, predictive analysis, drill down analysis,
what-if scenarios, graphics etc.
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Thank You for Your Attention !!
Andreea Varjoghe
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