This hands-on workshop presents a process of performance tuning, testing, and monitoring. Presenters discuss methodology and tools for analyzing key performance factors and the root causes of typical performance problems, as well as the role of performance testing and benchmarks in the capacity modeling process and system design. (Detailed capacity planning processes are covered in System Architecture Design Strategies, offered on Sunday.) Computers are provided with preloaded data; exercises; and tools, like System Test Tool, System Profiler, and System Designer.

Level: Intermediate

Prerequisites: Knowledge of ArcGIS Server, ArcSDE, and RDBMS are required.

Audience: Testers, developers, administrators, and project managers who want to learn about more effective techniques for improving and managing the performance and scalability of ArcGIS enterprise systems.

Fee: $295.00

The Community Maps Program represents a cooperative effort by the ArcGIS user community to build multi-scale basemaps of the world using the best available data sources from GIS organizations in cities, counties, countries, and private companies. This one-day seminar introduces users to Esri's Community Maps Program and describes how they can benefit from participation. Seminar attendees will learn how the program is structured, best practices for preparing their authoritative content to be published in Community Maps online maps services, and how they can leverage their published content to create dynamic and useful web mapping applications. The seminar also focuses on changes and enhancements to the program that will coincide with the 2012 User Conference. This is an interactive session including group activities, discussions, and software demonstrations.

Level: Beginner

Prerequisites: None

Audience: Users from organizations that are interested in contributing authoritative data content to the Esri Community Maps program.

Fee: Free

This seminar helps prepare you to take the ArcGIS Desktop Associate certification exam. Attendees review, apply, and extend their ArcGIS skills in the areas of GIS data management, editing, visualization, and analysis. Hands-on practice with ArcGIS Desktop software will be emphasized. This seminar is designed as an exam preparation resource. You are not required to take this seminar to earn the certification, and completing this seminar does not guarantee that you will pass the exam.

Level: Intermediate

Prerequisites: Two or more years of experience using ArcGIS Desktop software (versions 9 and 10) to create and edit data, design and publish maps, and perform common GIS analysis operations are required.

Audience: Individuals planning to take the ArcGIS Desktop Associate certification exam, including GIS managers, analysts, specialists, and technicians.

Fee: $495.00

This seminar will help prepare you to take the ArcGIS Desktop Professional certification exam. In a fast-paced class environment that emphasizes group discussion and hands-on practice, attendees review, apply, and extend their ArcGIS skills in the following areas:

• Vector and raster data management
• Data visualization
• GIS analysis
• Modeling and Python scripting
• Map production and sharing

Level: Advanced

Prerequisites: Two or more years of experience using ArcGIS software (versions 9 and 10) to accomplish a variety of GIS tasks and analyses are required.

Audience: Individuals planning to take the ArcGIS Desktop Professional certification exam, including GIS managers, analysts, specialists, and consultants.

Fee: $495.00

This seminar focuses on defining and implementing an enterprise ArcGIS project from an operational and technical management perspective. Presenters discuss best practices for each key project stage and present illustrative case studies. Project management-related topics include defining the project vision; understanding and defining requirements; designing, developing, and configuring ArcGIS project components; identifying project resource requirements; identifying and managing risks; and planning for deployment and ongoing support. Technical implementation topics include enterprise solution design considerations, security planning, database design and migration, infrastructure design and implementation, and configuration management.

Level: Beginner

Prerequisites: None

Audience: GIS managers, project managers, and managers in charge of GIS implementations.

Fee: $295.00

Do you want to reduce the time spent on complex or repetitive GIS tasks and enable GIS staff to be more productive? This seminar explains how to create Python scripts to automate tasks related to data management, geoprocessing and analysis workflows, and managing map document contents using ArcGIS. Learn techniques for ensuring valid script syntax and error handling and for sharing your key GIS workflows as custom script tools and geoprocessing packages.

Level: Intermediate

Prerequisites: Attendees should have at least one year of experience working with ArcGIS geoprocessing tools and models. Attendees should also have basic programming skills, including using loops and conditional statements.

Audience: GIS specialists, analysts, data processors, and other professionals who want to learn fundamental Python scripting concepts and syntax.

Fee: $495.00

Expand your analysis skill set as you learn a proven process to create and share reliable results that support decision making. This seminar explains how to apply best practices to a variety of GIS analyses to identify suitable locations, quantify spatial patterns in your data (such as clusters and hot spots), and analyze change over time. You will also learn how to automate an analysis workflow using Python scripts and adaptive geoprocessing models as well as techniques for efficiently sharing your results. Some course exercises use tools provided in the ArcGIS Spatial Analyst and ArcGIS Tracking Analyst extensions.

Level: Intermediate

Prerequisites: Attendees should have at least one year of experience using ArcGIS analysis tools and models to conduct GIS analysis projects.

Audience: GIS analysts, specialists, and other professionals who want to broaden their knowledge of ArcGIS analysis methods and learn a recommended, repeatable workflow to solve spatial problems.

Fee: $495.00

This seminar presents a consistent methodology for planning and managing a GIS. Presenters focus on the practical aspects of planning and implementing a GIS as part of an organization's business strategy and workflows. They also address integrating GIS technology and business practices to achieve organization-wide coordination and information sharing as well as a proven approach to cost-benefit analysis and return on investment. Also covered are the day-to-day details of GIS management, creating the personnel and technical environments for hardware acquisition and deployment, system migration, legal issues, risk analysis, and more.

Level: All

Prerequisites: None. A good reference for attendees to review in preparation for the seminar is Roger Tomlinson's book Thinking About GIS, Fourth Edition, available through Esri Press (the Third Edition is available in English, Russian, Spanish, Chinese, and Polish).

Audience: Current or potential GIS managers or senior executives who need to understand the steps toward building a successful GIS in their organizations; also valuable to students planning to enter the working world.

Fee: $295.00

This seminar shares a system design methodology that promotes successful GIS operations, including guidelines for identifying business requirements, selecting the right software, using properly configured data sources, getting the product architecture right, selecting the right hardware, and defining solution strategies that satisfy user productivity needs. The focus is on lessons learned and best practices, new ArcGIS 10.1 technology patterns, and design methods that make a difference for customers. Design theory is matched with practical experience shared by top Esri enterprise design architects demonstrating the value of implementing IT design standards empowered by our new System Designer modeling tools.

Level: All

Prerequisites: None. A good reference is Dave Peters' book Building a GIS, available through Esri Press (Second Edition). Content is also shared in the System Design Strategies wiki site (wiki.GIS.com) and Enterprise GIS Resource Center.

Audience: Current or potential GIS managers, GIS analysts, project managers, GIS technical architects, IT managers, and software developers interested in understanding how to build successful GIS operations.

Fee: $295.00

Get started using the new ArcGIS Runtime development environment to design and create lightweight applications that feature rich, interactive maps and tasks. In this hands-on seminar, you learn about the new ArcGIS Runtime architecture and supported functionality. You will then apply that knowledge to build an application that allows desktop users to visualize, query, edit, and analyze geographic data in both disconnected and connected modes. Licensing considerations and best practices for application deployment are covered. You are encouraged to bring questions. This seminar's format will include open discussion time and time to extend the scripted exercises to your own custom application project.

Level: Advanced

Prerequisites: Java programming skills and experience creating ArcGIS map, tiled, locator, and geoprocessing packages for use in lightweight applications are required.

Audience: Java developers who want to create lightweight desktop applications that showcase ArcGIS 10.1 services and functionality.

Fee: $495.00

Get started using the new ArcGIS Runtime development environment to design and create lightweight applications that feature rich, interactive maps and tasks. In this hands-on seminar, you learn about the new ArcGIS Runtime architecture and supported functionality. You will then apply that knowledge to build an application that allows desktop users to visualize, query, edit, and analyze geographic data in both disconnected and connected modes. Licensing considerations and best practices for application deployment are covered. You are encouraged to bring questions. This seminar's format will include open discussion time and time to extend the scripted exercises to your own custom application project.

Level: Advanced

Prerequisites: Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) programming skills and experience creating ArcGIS map, tiled, locator, and geoprocessing packages for use in lightweight applications are required.

Audience: Microsoft WPF developers who want to create lightweight desktop applications that showcase ArcGIS 10.1 services and functionality.

Fee: $495.00

Using ArcGIS API for Flex, you can build engaging web applications that incorporate ArcGIS services. This hands-on seminar explains how to use ArcGIS API for Flex and the Adobe Flex platform to efficiently create high-performing web mapping applications that meet the needs of the intended audience. Learn about the components available in ArcGIS API for Flex; how to write code for Flex-based applications; and how to incorporate GIS services that allow end users to visualize, query, and edit geographic data.

Level: Intermediate

Prerequisites: Attendees should have experience developing applications for the Adobe Flex platform using Flash Builder and the Flex software development kit (SDK), accessing services using the ArcGIS Services Directory, configuring web mapping applications using ArcGIS Viewer for Flex, and authoring web maps using ArcGIS.

Audience: Web developers and GIS professionals who want to create Flex-based web applications that include GIS services and functionality.

Fee: $495.00

Using ArcGIS API for JavaScript, you can build engaging web applications that incorporate ArcGIS services. This hands-on seminar explains how to use ArcGIS API for JavaScript to efficiently create high-performing web mapping applications that meet the needs of the intended audience. Learn about the components available in ArcGIS API for JavaScript; how to write code for a JavaScript-based application; and how to incorporate ArcGIS Online resources and GIS services that allow end users to visualize, query, and edit geographic data.

Level: Intermediate

Prerequisites: Attendees should have experience developing web applications using JavaScript and HTML, accessing services using the ArcGIS Services Directory, configuring web mapping applications using the ArcGIS.com viewer, and authoring web maps using ArcGIS.

Audience: Web developers and GIS professionals who want to use JavaScript to create web mapping applications that include GIS services and functionality.

Fee: $495.00

Using ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), you can build engaging web applications that incorporate ArcGIS services. This hands-on seminar explains how to use ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF and the Silverlight platform to efficiently create high-performing web mapping applications that meet the needs of the intended audience. Learn about the components available in ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF; how to write code for a Silverlight-based application; and how to incorporate GIS services that allow end users to visualize, query, and edit geographic data.

Level: Intermediate

Prerequisites: Attendees should have experience developing applications for the Silverlight platform using XAML and C# or Visual Basic .NET, accessing services using the ArcGIS Services Directory, configuring web mapping applications using ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight, and authoring web maps using ArcGIS.

Audience: Web developers and GIS professionals who want to create Silverlight-based web applications that include GIS services and functionality.

Fee: $495.00

Great design talent is rare, but great designs can be presented, shared, and reused or adapted. This session presents a few such designs, explaining the design rationale, technical details, and implementation procedures and strategies for building great web maps. Presenters also share how they use a holistic approach to creating web maps, designing not just the map and web page, but also the user interaction and the information necessary to ensure clear communication.

Level: Intermediate to advanced

Prerequisites: Expertise in ArcGIS Desktop or web programming would be helpful.

Audience: Anyone expecting to design, implement, and publish web map applications based on ArcGIS services.

Fee: $295.00