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ArcGIS: The Complete Enterprise GIS

ArcGIS is an integrated collection of GIS software products for building a complete GIS for your organization. The ArcGIS framework enables you to deploy GIS functionality and business logic wherever it is needed—in desktops, servers (including the Web), or mobile devices. This architecture, coupled with the geodatabase, gives you the tools to assemble intelligent geographic information systems.

Whether you need to perform spatial analysis, manage large amounts of spatial data, or produce cartographically appealing maps to aid in decision making, ArcGIS allows you to use one common platform to meet all your GIS needs. And because ArcGIS is built using technology standards, it will integrate well with your existing systems.
.: Desktop GIS

ArcGIS Desktop is software that allows you to discover patterns, relationships, and trends in your data that are not readily apparent in databases, spreadsheets, or statistical packages.

Beyond showing you your data as points on a map, ArcGIS Desktop gives you the power to manage and integrate your data, perform advanced analysis, model and automate operational processes, and display your results on professional-quality maps.

ArcView
ArcView is full-featured geographic information system (GIS) software for visualizing, managing, creating, and analyzing geographic data. Using ArcView, you can understand the geographic context of your data, allowing you to see relationships and identify patterns in new ways. ArcView helps tens of thousands of organizations make better decisions and solve problems faster.

ArcEditor
ArcEditor is a powerful GIS desktop system for editing and managing geographic data. ArcEditor includes all the functionality of ArcView and adds a comprehensive set of tools to create, edit, and ensure the quality of your data. ArcEditor supports single-user editing as well as a collaborative process between many editors. An extensive set of tools is included for simple data cleanup and input as well as for sophisticated design and versioning.

ArcInfo
ArcInfo is the most complete GIS.
ArcInfo provides all the tools to build and manage a complete, intelligent GIS including maps and globes, data, metadata, geodatasets, and workflow models.
This functionality is accessible via an easy-to-use interface that is customizable and extensible through models, scripting, and applications.

ArcReader
ArcReader is a free, easy-to-use desktop mapping application that allows users to view, explore, and print maps and globes. ArcReader is a great way to deliver interactive mapping capabilities that access a wide variety of dynamic geographic information. Using ArcReader, anyone can view high-quality maps created using the ArcGIS Publisher extension.

Extensions for ArcInfo, ArcEditor, and ArcView

Using optional extensions with ArcGIS desktop products allows you to perform extended tasks such as raster geoprocessing and three-dimensional analysis. Unless noted, extensions can be used with ArcInfo, ArcEditor, and ArcView.

Analysis
.: GIS for Developers

ArcGIS Engine
ArcGIS Engine is a developer product for creating custom GIS desktop applications. ArcGIS Engine provides application programming interfaces (APIs) for COM, .NET, Java, and C++. These APIs not only include detailed documentation, but they also include a series of high-level visual components that make it easy for even the casual programmer to build an ArcGIS application.

 
.: Server GIS

Become more productive by sharing your GIS across the enterprise with focused, easy-to-use applications. Server GIS enables you to distribute your maps, models, and tools to others in your organization in a way that fits well into their workflows. Staff in other departments and in the field can query accurate, up-to-date data with minimal training. This increases their productivity as well as yours.

ArcIMS is widely used for GIS Web publishing to deliver maps, data, and metadata to many users on the Web. For example, ArcIMS provides browser-based access to many GIS catalog portals that enable users to publish and share geographic knowledge with other users.

ArcIMS is the solution for delivering dynamic maps and GIS data and services via the Web. It provides a highly scalable framework for GIS Web publishing that meets the needs of corporate Intranets and demands of worldwide Internet access. ArcIMS services can be used by a wide range of clients including custom Web applications, the ArcGIS Desktop, and mobile and wireless devices. Using ArcIMS, city and local governments, businesses, and other organizations worldwide publish, discover, and share geospatial information.

With ArcIMS you can

  • Deliver dynamic maps and data via the Web.
  • Create easy-to-use, task-focused applications that use geographic content.
  • Develop custom applications using industry-standard Web development environments.
  • Share data with others to accomplish tasks
  • Implement GIS portals.


ESRI Server Products
ArcGIS Server is ESRI's primary server GIS product. It is a complete and integrated server-based GIS that comes with out-of-the-box, end user applications and services for spatial data management, visualization, and spatial analysis.

ArcGIS Server is a complete and integrated server-based GIS. It comes with out-of-the-box, end user applications and services for spatial data management, visualization, and spatial analysis.

ArcGIS Server offers the following advantages:

  • Lower cost of ownership through centrally managed, focused GIS applications that can scale to support many users.
  • Browser-based access to GIS.
  • Integration with other enterprise systems such as customer relationship management (CRM) or enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems using industry-standard software. ArcGIS Server provides the foundation for geospatially enabling a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
  • Support for interoperability standards in both the GIS domain (Open Geospatial Consortium) as well as the broader information technology (IT) domain (W3C).
  • Ability to create custom applications using .NET or Java.

ArcGIS Server complements ArcGIS Desktop by allowing GIS analysts to cost-effectively author maps, globes, and geoprocessing tasks on their desktop and publish them to ArcGIS Server using integrated tools. GIS functions can then be delivered as services throughout the enterprise

ArcGIS Image Server is a management, processing, and distribution platform for geospatial imagery that integrates with ArcGIS Server. It provides fast and open access to geospatial imagery, allowing organizations to leverage their investments in raster data.

ArcGIS Image Server provides fast access to large quantities of file-based imagery. It is processed on-the-fly and on-demand. With ArcGIS Image Server, you can maximize the value of your imagery by making it quickly accessible without reloading.

Who Uses ArcGIS Image Server?
ArcGIS Image Server is particularly useful when you need to

  • Deploy imagery enterprise-wide to a variety of clients, without preprocessing the data and loading it into a DBMS
  • Perform dynamic imagery processing; providing better image visualization, reduced storage costs, and less data processing and maintenance

 
.: Mobile GIS
Mobile GIS enables field based personnel to capture, store, update, manipulate, analyze, and display geographic information. This enables organizations to speed up analysis and decision making by using up-to-date, accurate spatial data.

Mobile GIS products include

  • ArcGIS Mobile—An SDK powered by ArcGIS Server to build and deploy centrally managed, fully customized mobile applications that can synchronize with the server
  • ArcPad—An out-of-the-box, complete mobile mapping and field data collection solution that provides database access, mapping, GIS and global positioning system (GPS) integration.
  • StreetMap Mobile Software Developer Kit—An SDK that allows developers to create custom mapping and navigation applications for in-vehicle systems or personal navigation devices.
  • Mobile ArcGIS Desktop Systems

ArcPad is software for mobile GIS and field mapping applications using handheld and mobile devices. ArcPad provides field-based personnel with the ability to capture, analyze, and display geographic information, without the use of costly and outdated paper map books.

 

 

With ArcPad, you can:

  • Perform reliable, accurate, and validated field data collection
  • Integrate GPS, rangefinders, and digital cameras into GIS data collection
  • Share enterprise data with field-workers for updating and decision making
  • Improve the productivity of GIS data collection
  • Improve the accuracy of the GIS database and make it more up to date

 
.: ESRI Developer Network
Get Started with the Right Tools to Develop Innovative GIS Applications
EDN provides the resources you need to build a complete GIS solution. These resources also connect developers with each other to troubleshoot, solve development problems, and exchange ideas.

EDN offers annual subscriptions that provide a cost-effective way to license ESRI ArcGIS products and tools. The EDN subscriptions and website are the ultimate resources for developers responsible for building GIS applications and solutions.

With an annual subscription to EDN, you'll receive

  • An extensive suite of ESRI software and data in the EDN Software Library
  • Discounts on support and training
  • Access to new developer tools and technologies only available in EDN
  • An invitation to participate in selected beta releases


What's Coming in ArcGIS 9.3

ArcGIS 9.3 continues to expand the use of GIS throughout the enterprise. From GIS professionals to decision makers, clients, and the public, GIS information and analysis can be made available wherever it is needed.

ArcGIS 9.3 is expected to be available in the third quarter of 2008.

  • ArcGIS Desktop:

At ArcGIS Desktop 9.3, we've implemented many of your enhancement requests and addressed a significant number of common technical support issues to help make you more productive.

ArcGIS Desktop 9.3 is supported on Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003, and Windows 2000.

  • ArcGIS Server

Here are just a few of the quality enhancements and new features you will see with ArcGIS Server 9.3.

  • New REST and JavaScript APIs
  • New Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Services Support
  • New PostgreSQL Support
  • New Collaborative Design Activity (COLLADA)
  • Improved Performance
  • Better Diagnostics
  • Enhanced Security
  • More Documentation

  • ArcGIS Mobile

ArcGIS Mobile extends the ArcGIS Server platform beyond the office with the addition of a new ArcGIS Mobile application and enhancements to the existing ArcGIS Mobile Software Development Kit (SDK).

  • Geodatabase

The geodatabase continues to be the common data storage and management framework for ArcGIS. At ArcGIS 9.3, the geodatabase offers improved spatial data management and enhanced capabilities for integration with enterprise systems.

Still have questions about what's coming in ArcGIS 9.3? Please ask.