Increased Productivity

• Search by keywords or data types to find data, symbols, and maps quickly.
• Browse and add data directly from Catalog window in ArcMap.
• Simplify map creation and production with streamlined sketch-based Desktop (2D/3D) and Web editing. (View a video demo.)
• Automate map production with Python and map books.
• Save time through faster display, smoother navigation, and the ability to run geoprocessing in the background.

Powerful Spatial Analysis

• Automate common tasks and analyses with Python scripting. (View a video demo.)
• Combine ArcGIS with other scientific programming to reveal powerful answers in your data.
• Take advantage of new analysis tools such as fuzzy overlay and location/allocation.
• Create, manage, and visualize time-aware data for more in-depth analysis.
• Perform in 3D virtually everything you can do in a 2D environment: modeling, editing, visualization, and analysis.

Improved Access to Imagery

• Use and manage imagery more efficiently on the desktop and on the server.
• Experience faster performance with accelerated image display.
• Save time by using the image analysis window for image interpretation and processing.
• Easily manage massive image collections with dynamic mosaicking and on-the-fly processing.
• Efficiently serve dynamic image mosaics to many applications.

View a video demo about what imagery improvements are in ArcGIS 10.

New Ways to Share

• Increase collaboration via tight integration with ArcGIS Online search and share capabilities.
• Easily create and distribute projects that may include data, layers, maps, tools, scenes, globes, diagrams, and add-ins.
• Discover and organize geographic data throughout the enterprise via the new Search service in ArcGIS Server.
• Enable feature-level editing via Web applications

Cloud GIS

• Use online maps and tools that are a built-in part of ArcGIS, whether you're using ArcGIS Desktop, a mobile device, a browser, or if you're developing applications using the ArcGIS Web Mapping APIs.
• Find, share, organize, and use maps, apps, and other resources via ArcGIS.com—a Web-based gateway into the ArcGIS system.
• Discover, share, and present geographic information using ArcGIS Explorer Online, a new browser-based version of ArcGIS Explorer.
• Use ArcGIS Server on the Amazon cloud (view a video).

Expanded GIS in the Field

• Extend mobile projects to tablet-based PCs using the ArcGIS Mobile customizable, ready to deploy application (view a video demonstration).
• Simplify ArcGIS Mobile deployments using the new Mobile Project Center.
• Leverage streaming GPS, photo attachments, and location tracking.
• Access a new iPhone mapping application directly from the Apple iTunes App Store.
• Build your own iPhone applications using the ArcGIS API for iPhone.

Better for Developers

• Use simple to share and deploy add-ins or Python to extend the desktop applications.
• Easily build applications with additional Web APIs and streamlined software developer kits (SDKs).
• Enjoy a simplified developer experience through a single ArcObjects .NET SDK as well as a single ArcObjects Java SDK for ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Engine, and ArcGIS Server.