R.A. Smith & Associates Plans Geographic Information System Courses

BROOKFIELD, Wisconsin—R.A. Smith & Associates, Inc., of Brookfield, Wisconsin—civil engineering, planning, surveying, landscape architecture, geographic information system (GIS), and visualization consultants—is accepting registrations for several upcoming ESRI-authorized GIS courses. The training is part of the education component of R.A. Smith's SuccessGIS® program for successful GIS implementation.

Who Should Attend: The classes are open to anyone who wants to use GIS as an effective tool for managing, analyzing, and viewing relationships between tabular and spatial information. The classes benefit individuals employed in local government, land development, real estate, police/fire/emergency services, health care, education, and other industries.

Managing Editing Workflows in a Multiuser Geodatabase

This course provides an insider's look at how to manage editing workflows in a multiuser geodatabase. Students learn how to use the different editing environments and how to integrate these environments into their business workflow. This course teaches how to perform both nonversioned and versioned editing. Students learn how ArcSDE software implements versioned and nonversioned editing through the use of geodatabase system metadata tables and user delta tables. Solid strategies for maintaining multiuser geodatabase performance are explored.

R.A. Smith Plans GIS Courses, Add Three and End

Introduction to ArcGIS I

ArcGIS Desktop is ESRI's full-featured GIS software for visualizing, creating, managing, and analyzing geographic data. This course provides the foundation for becoming a successful ArcGIS Desktop user. Students learn fundamental GIS concepts and become familiar with the range of functionality available in the software. In course exercises, they work with ArcGIS Desktop and see how it provides a complete GIS software solution.

Introduction to ArcGIS II

In this course, students extend their ArcGIS skills in the areas of cartography, data automation and editing, and geoprocessing and spatial analysis. Students work with advanced cartographic tools as they learn how to efficiently create effective maps. A major focus of the course is the geodatabase. Students learn database design considerations and techniques for creating, maintaining, and managing GIS data stored in a geodatabase. The ArcGIS geoprocessing tools for spatial analysis are also covered and, in a course project, students apply many of their newly acquired skills.

Introduction to ArcGIS Server

This course introduces ArcGIS Server and teaches how to install, configure, and use the product as administrators and consumers of GIS services. Students learn how to publish maps, globes, and geoprocessing models that are optimized for performance. Students also create out-of-the-box Web applications using Manager and learn how to use GIS services in both Web applications and ArcGIS Explorer.

Data Management in the Multiuser Geodatabase

This course prepares GIS and database administrators to implement an ArcSDE geodatabase by teaching how to load and manage ArcSDE data. The course presents concepts applicable to both workgroup and enterprise ArcSDE geodatabases but focuses primarily on the enterprise ArcSDE geodatabase. Students learn the basic architecture of a multiuser geodatabase and are introduced to ArcSDE connection types.

ArcGIS Server Enterprise Configuration and Tuning for SQL Server

This course prepares SQL Server® database administrators to implement an enterprise geodatabase by teaching how to set up an individual ArcSDE server. Students become familiar with the ArcSDE architecture and learn how to configure SQL Server to support ArcSDE, install and configure ArcSDE, and identify and troubleshoot connection types and issues. How to Register/More Information: For more information or to register, visit http://www.successgis.com/training.htm. R.A. Smith also offers customized training either on-site or at R.A. Smith's in-house learning center. A course outline and materials are prepared based on the individual's specific needs. For more information about any of the scheduled courses or customized training opportunities, contact David Haines, R.A. Smith, at 262-317-3375.

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About R.A. Smith & Associates
R.A. Smith & Associates (www.rasmith.com) is one of Wisconsin's largest civil engineering, planning, surveying, landscape architecture, GIS, and 3D visualization consulting firms, with 250 total employees. R.A. Smith and its National Survey & Engineering division are headquartered in Brookfield with branch offices in Green Bay, Appleton, Oshkosh, and Madison, Wisconsin. National Survey & Engineering also has offices in Tarentum (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania. Established in 1978, R.A. Smith serves state and local government, and its National Survey & Engineering division serves the land development industry.

R.A. Smith provides GIS services to the public and private sectors and has developed a program—SuccessGIS—for the successful implementation of GIS at all levels. More information is available at www.successgis.com. As an advocate of the education component of the program, R.A. Smith is an ESRI-authorized consultant and reseller of GIS software as well as demographic data available through ESRI. R.A. Smith was named Business Partner of the Year in the Minneapolis region for 2004 by ESRI, the world's leading GIS software provider.

R.A. Smith was ranked no. 10 among medium-sized civil engineering firms (101 to 499 employees) nationwide in CE News' Best Civil Engineering Firms to Work For 2006 and was the only Wisconsin firm on the list. R.A. Smith was also recognized in fall 2001, 2003, and 2005 as one of the best employers to work for in southeastern Wisconsin by Milwaukee Magazine.

R.A. Smith's mission is to design with vision, deliver excellence, and provide the most responsive service to clients. The company is driven by core values that include accountability, client satisfaction, innovation, positive work environment, ethics and integrity, and community and professional involvement.

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