ArcGIS Server 9.2 offers a scalable line of editions that are built from a common set of technology components. ArcGIS Server is licensed by both user-driven functionality and server capacity. The functional editions of the product include
Basic—This edition provides users with a comprehensive GIS server for spatial data management. It focuses on organizing and managing geographic datasets.
Standard—This edition provides users with a comprehensive GIS server for spatial data management and visualization (mapping). This includes 2D mapping, 3D rendering (globe) services, and a suite of related features such as geocoding, gazetteer, routing, and so forth. (All aspects of the Basic edition are included in the Standard edition.)
Advanced—This edition provides users with a comprehensive GIS server for spatial data management, visualization (mapping), and spatial analysis including browser-based editing, geoprocessing, spatial analysis, and modeling. (All aspects of the Basic and Standard editions are included in the Advanced edition.)
Furthermore, for each functional edition there are also levels that define capacity. These levels are
Workgroup—This level is designed and limited to run on a single machine with a single socket (single or dual core) and with an included SQL Server Express database engine.
Enterprise—This level is designed to run and optionally deploy a GIS server on multiple machines, with scaling beyond two sockets per machine and on a user-defined database (SQL Server, DB2, Informix, or Oracle).
The focus of ArcGIS Server 9.1 was primarily for developers (i.e., ArcObjects for the server). For ArcGIS Server 9.2, the major emphasis is on making it easy to implement and administer; the product includes out-of-the-box applications for spatial data management, visualization (2D and 3D mapping), and spatial analysis.
Beyond Web-based GIS, ArcGIS Server is an enterprise system that is designed to plug into a service-oriented architecture for integration with other enterprise systems, providing cross-cutting geospatial services.
ArcGIS Explorer is a new, easy-to-use geobrowser client for mapping and 3D visualization. It provides a fast and simple way to access the rich functionality of ArcGIS Server. It is intuitive and free. This software is designed to work as a client to ArcGIS Server and can integrate other Web services including OGC WMS, ArcIMS, ArcWeb Services, and KML. ArcGIS Explorer also can read and display local data including shapefiles, file geodatabases, and a wide variety of image formats.
ArcGIS Explorer is not a stand-alone solution but rather an integrated part of the ArcGIS system and is part of the ArcGIS 9.2 release. We believe that ArcGIS Explorer will be very powerful for GIS organizations to make their GIS knowledge universally available.
ArcGIS Server 9.2 offers a mobile client called ArcGIS Mobile. At ArcGIS 9.2, this is available as a software development kit that can be used to create and deploy focused mobile applications that can operate in a connected or disconnected environment. The initial release is focused on providing developers with a rich opportunity to develop mobile applications that provide basic GIS functionality such as map display, query, pan and zoom, and network tracing. These applications support wireless synchronization, GIS data replication, and editing capabilities on devices running Microsoft Windows technology including smartphones, Pocket PCs, and Tablet PCs.
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