Standards Compliance

Adherence to standards makes it possible for server GIS technology to integrate with other enterprise systems. It also supports a collaborative environment and allows for the geospatial enabling of an SOA. Open APIs allow organizations to build and deploy meaningful applications in a standards-based way or integrate GIS technology into existing applications.

ESRI technology delivers a standards-based platform that supports persistence of geographic information in a relational geodatabase governed by the following standards

• DBMS: RDBMS and SQL
• Web Services: J2EE, .NET, XML/SOAP, WSDL
• Computing Platforms: Windows, Unix
• Development Languages: C++, Java, .NET, etc.

• Web Service APIs
• Data and Metadata formats
• Industry, ISO, Global JXDM, Military, OGC (e.g. WMS, WFS, WCS, CS-W), FEA, KML/KMZ