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Program directory · Shared Services Canada

Middleware & Database

Program code
BWD03 (SHARE)
Core responsibility
Data Centres
In Departmental Plans
2018-19 – 2019-20 · Appeared and later dropped

What it does

GC InfoBase has no Program Inventory description for this program.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

2018-192019-202020-212021-22Middleware & Database 2018-19: $34.7MMiddleware & Database 2019-20: $22.9MMiddleware & Database 2020-21: $17.7MMiddleware & Database 2021-22: $17.6MMiddleware & Database
Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data.
ProgramRelationYears with dataActual spending over those years
Middleware & DatabaseThis program2018-19 – 2021-22$57.6M

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.

YearWhat changedSource
2019-20Spending $22.9M, against $34.7M in 2018-19 (−34%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)

Success criteria

The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.

Historical: targets against results

% of time the Middleware & Database infrastructure is available
Expected result: Provide SSC customers, in support of their Programs for Canadian Citizens, with partially and/or fully managed, secure, reliable, cloud adaptable and scalable standardized middleware services
95%2018-19– no result95%2019-20– no result

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2018-19≥ 95%2019—
Platform Services has only recently received the service authorization for database as a service (DBaaS) and is currently in the process of working through governance to obtain service authorization for middleware as a service (MWaaS). In this context, partner organizations and SSC share accountability for most middleware and database services in the delivery of programs and services to Canadians…
No result reported
2019-20≥ 95%2020—
Platform Services has only recently received the service authorization for enterprise database service and is currently in the process of working through governance to obtain service authorization for enterprise middleware service. In this context, partner organizations and Shared Services Canada share accountability for most middleware and database services in the delivery of programs and servic…
No result reported

Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets

No indicators in the 2026-27 plan.

Future goals: targets due after 2026-27

No targets with a later due date.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2018-19: $16.2M2018-19: $34.7M2018-192019-20: $17.3M2019-20: $22.9M2019-202020-21: $17.7M2020-212021-22: $17.6M2021-22
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2018-19$16.2M$34.7M
2019-20$17.3M$22.9M
2020-21$17.7M*—
2021-22$17.6M*—

Employees (FTEs)

2018-19: 1942018-19: 1282018-192019-20: 1342019-20: 1312019-202020-21: 1322020-212021-22: 1322021-22
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2018-19194128
2019-20134131
2020-21132*—
2021-22132*—

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Plan2018-192019-202020-212021-22
2018-19 plan$16,239,083$16,162,504$16,188,713
2019-20 plan$17,305,852$17,654,746$17,645,930
Actual$34,713,166$22,927,495

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.