The Interoperability Maturity Tools (IMTs) team invites you to assess the interoperability maturity of the digital public services through a unified package for all different interoperability actions.

Start your own assessment with IMAPS v2.2.0, SIQAT v2.1.0 or GIQAT v2.1.0!

Request for a knowledge transfer session tailored to your needs! Share your interest with the IMTS team!

What are the Interoperability Maturity Tools?

Interoperability Maturity Tools (IMTs) are comprehensive solutions that are implemented in the EU Survey.

This set of tools delivers insights into two directions:

• They measure the current interoperability maturity of a digital public service based on a set of defined interoperability attributes and maturity stages;
• They suggest how the digital public service can improve its interoperability maturity.

Although the IMTs are publicly available for any organisation and citizens interested, the main target audience is the public service owners of digital public services that operate in an environment where interoperability is required to deliver a public service to end users.

Particularly the structural interoperability is assessed with SIQAT, the governance interoperability is assessed with GIQAT and the behavioural interoperability is assessed with IMAPS. Furthermore each one of those solutions include a set of questions that are assessing different interoperability aspects from a legal, organisational, semantic and technical interoperability viewpoint.

The below image illustrates the different interoperability aspects in the digital public services context:

Get familiar with...

Interoperability Maturity Tool - SIQAT

The Structural Interoperability Quick Assessment Toolkit (SIQAT) is a self-assessment tool that allows public service owners to evaluate the structural interoperability maturity level of their digital public service. 

SIQAT provides public administrations with insight into two key aspects of the structural interoperability of their digital public service:

• Shareability: It is the extent that an open standard enables prospective coexistence of an off-the-shelf asset in a given domain set of digital public service value chains.
• Reusability: It is the extent that an open standard enables the coexistence of an off-the-shelf asset in a given value chain of a digital public service.

Interoperability Maturity Tool - GIQAT

The Governance Interoperability Quick Assessment Toolkit (GIQAT) is a self-assessment tool that allows public service owners to evaluate the governance interoperability maturity level of their digital public service. 

GIQAT provides public administrations with insight into two key aspects of the governance interoperability of their digital public service:

• Collaboration Assurance: Is the extent that an open standard enables the collaboration assurance of a digital public service with another digital public service.
• Collaboration Control: Is the extent that an open standard enables the collaboration control of a digital public service with another digital public service.

Interoperability Maturity Tool - IMAPS

IMAPS is a self-assessment tool which can be used by owners of digital public services to evaluate key behavioral interoperability aspects and to ensure seamless delivery of digital public services in a national and cross-border context. In combination with the IMAPS, specialised versions are available to further assess specific:

• Legal (LIMAPS);
• Organisational (OIMAPS);
• Semantic (SIMAPS) and;
• Technical (TIMAPS) behavioural interoperability aspects.

IMAPS covers the main aspects of a digital public service lifecycle, namely the service delivery, the service consumption and the service management, while the IMAPS Specialisations are split in two service areas, namely the service delivery and the service consumption. These, in turn, are being assessed in terms of data, information and knowledge specifications, capabilities and manifestations, meaning specific details that enable and support peer-to-peer service collaboration.

What are the advantages of using Interoperability Maturity Tools?

Each of the Interoperability Maturity Tools provides: 

• Applicability to any digital public service supporting public services, at all levels of government;
• A user-friendly online questionnaire for completing the assessment which is available via EUSurvey;
• An interoperability maturity score indicating the current maturity level of your digital public service;
• A set of recommendations for improving your digital public service, based on interoperability standards and good practices (sent automatically via e-mail upon completion of the assessment);
• A report of your IMT assessment to support your investment decisions for service improvement (sent automatically via e-mail upon completion of the assessment);
• A statement of conformance with the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) principles.
• Time and resource saving in interoperability peer-to-peer tests.

Explore the Tools

We invite you to discover the Interoperability Maturity Tools and start the assessment of your digital public service(s).

• Use the Structural Interoperability Quick Assessment Toolkit by accessing this link SIQAT.
• Use the Governance Interoperability Quick Assessment Toolkit by accessing this link GIQAT.
• Use the Interoperability Maturity Assessment of a Public Service by accessing this link IMAPS. 
  
  Digital public service owners can also get detailed insights on the legal (LIMAPS), organisational (OIMAPS), semantic (SIMAPS) and technical (TIMAPS) interoperability maturity of the digital public services. If you wish to find out more about the architectural guidelines and the respective HL SATs, visit: LIMAPS HL SAT, OIMAPS HL SAT, SIMAPS HL SAT, TIMAPS HL SAT.

What to expect next?

Our ultimate goal is to support digital public service owners to reach the next level in the interoperability maturity of their digital public services! Stay tuned for the next communication actions such as a user journey illustration of the Interoperability Maturity Tools and more.

Do you still have Questions?

In case of questions, please contact the IMTs team via e-mail to DIGIT-IMAPS@ec.europa.eu or leave your comment right below!