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 Server provides the foundation for a geospatial SOA. It allows common GIS functions to be delivered as services throughout the enterprise.

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