IT professionals' top concerns when considering moving to the cloud: Security and privacy.
Cloud computing is emerging as an important technology trend in almost every industry, including for those users in the GIS community. Offered by vendors such as Salesforce.com and Amazon Web Services (AWS), cloud services are moving into the mainstream. Cloud computing furnishes technological capabilities—commonly maintained off-premise—that are delivered on demand as a service via the Internet.
However, before moving to the cloud, it's important to understand its basics: the service and delivery models, the potential benefits, and the risks and concerns an organization faces as it considers becoming a cloud consumer.
Change Where Toolboxes and Models Are Stored
A set of system toolboxes containing tools and toolsets comes with ArcGIS and can be accessed from the ArcToolbox window or the ArcCatalog tree. Learn to create custom toolboxes to organize frequently used tools, custom tools, and models. Read this tip.
ArcWatch is published monthly by ESRI and contains GIS news, practical advice, and updates about the company's software and events. To submit article ideas,
e-mail editor Carla Wheeler at arcwatch_editor@esri.com.
Listen to ESRI president Jack Dangermond talk about what's coming in ArcGIS 10 and the reason behind the name change from ArcGIS 9.4. According to Dangermond the beta testers said, "This is much bigger than a dot release. Call it 10."
The electronic health record (EHR) will become
ubiquitous at medical centers, clinics, and doctors' offices over the next decade. After suffering a heart attack, ESRI's Bill Davenhall studied what role geography may have played in his medical problem. At the most recent TEDMED conference, he made a good case for including a geographic component in EHRs. Listen to Davenhall's TedMed talk.
ESRI is providing GIS software and
training to Guyana's government to support the country's low-carbon forest management strategy. Read the article. Download the free ESRI Best Practices booklet GIS for Forest Carbon Management.
Find out how biologist Willie
Smits uses GIS in his campaign to rebuild orangutan populations in Indonesia while restoring forest habitats there and in other parts of the world.
The Twitter add-in for ArcGIS Explorer gives you the ability to geotag your tweets and perform a number of geospatial operations using the Twitter API.
Using GIS, the Pueblo County, Colorado, GIS team helps local businesses, nonprofits, and other organizations map out a winning strategy to thrive economically.
This latest service pack ensures the highest-quality experience when working with ArcGIS 9.3.1.
These four lessons will help
GIS application developers streamline the workflow for non-GIS professionals. Lesson 1: Always hide the details. “Highly usable systems hide complex GIS operations from the user and get the desired answer quickly,” say the authors of this article.
Created for and by developers, the 2010 ESRI Developer Summit
gives attendees more than 30 hours of job-critical training. They will also gain confidence in application development, whether it involves ESRI software, Web mapping, or information technology. Join us March 22–25, 2010, in Palm Springs, California. Register today.
Ahmed Abukhater, ESRI's community
development manager, explains how social media and the GeoWeb are enhancing community involvement and transparency in the planning process. Join the discussion.
Organizations use GIS to increase the ability to tap into renewable energy, such as wind and solar power. Read the article.
Mitchell Garnett, ESRI's electric utility industry solutions manager, talks about how GIS can be used to analyze the best areas for wind farms. He adds that the ModelBuilder application in ArcGIS software accelerates and simplifies the process.
The story of the Solar Boston map is told in this podcast with Greg Knight, senior GIS application developer for the Boston Redevelopment Authority. Created using Web GIS from ESRI, the mapping application lets users see the locations of renewable energy installations in the Massachusetts city and calculate the solar potential of building rooftops.
Read how organizations and individuals from Alaska to Sri Lanka celebrated GIS Day.
Join ESRI and GIS Development magazine for a series of Geospatial Technology Update seminars in Southeast Asia that begin January 26, 2010, in Jakarta, Indonesia. Representatives from mapping organizations and affiliates, including national hydrographic and aeronautical agencies, are invited to attend. Register today.
ESRI Business Analyst Online delivers market potential reports and maps of customers' spending and retail activities. Industry-specific reports, including electronic, financial, restaurant, and retail, are available for all ZIP Codes in the United States.
Visit the Mapping for Everyone Web site and make a map for free and share it. You can also post a question or comment in the Mapping for Everyone Community forum.
Easily find your competition and locate and target businesses for your services using the new Bing business search capabilities. Find out what else is new.
Need a tool to help analyze your data in a realistic 3D perspective? Try ArcGIS 3D Analyst free for 60 days.
Read the white paper Performance and Throughput Tips for ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 Cached Map Services and the Apache HTTP Server.
In this new instructor-led course, you will learn how to design and build custom mobile applications that enable situational awareness and real-time geographic data collection in the field.
Land Administration for Sustainable Development from
ESRI Press discusses new and innovative land administration system (LAS) policies and technologies worldwide. Learn about the positive impact LAS has on social equity, economic growth, and environmental protection. Buy the book.
ESRI now offers online two of its most in-demand courses, ArcGIS Desktop II: Tools and Functionality and Building Geodatabases. You receive live instruction from an ESRI professional trainer without leaving your office or having to request approval for travel. See all the Virtual Campus courses.
U.S. customers may take advantage of several ArcGIS enterprise server offers from ESRI and INLINE Corporation/IceWEB, Inc., which include the ArcGIS Data Appliance MLP Portable Solution, ArcGIS Data Appliance Server Bundle, and ArcGIS Data Appliance. The ArcGIS Data Appliance, based on the data collection package purchased, can provide terabytes of prerendered nationwide and worldwide data that includes street and transportation, place-name, administrative boundary, and raster imagery data. Learn more about all the ESRI and INLINE/IceWEB offers.
Visit the ESRI Store to find more software and extensions, upgrades, data, books, and hardware bundles.
The Support Center News Blog is chock-full of great technical information and tips.