Each product in Esri’s core product family, ArcGIS, leverages Microsoft’s technology platform. ArcGIS is a system for people who rely on accurate geographic information to make decisions. It facilitates collaboration and lets you easily author data, maps, globes, and models on the desktop and serve them out for use on a desktop, in a browser, or in the field, depending on the needs of your organization. ArcGIS software runs on the Microsoft Windows platform and works with:
Microsoft Windows Server
.NET Framework
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft Windows Azure
Microsoft Bing Maps
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
Microsoft Windows Mobile
Esri’s ArcGIS Online system utilizes the Microsoft
Windows Azure platform. ArcGIS Online consists of subscription-based services that run on the Azure cloud to provide public institutions, private businesses, governments and citizens with a central, secure location for accessing, designing, managing and sharing geographic information. ArcGIS Online can help you to advance the business insight conversation with customers because it fully complements the Microsoft business intelligence stack.
Easily create dynamic, interactive maps of your Excel information and start exploring your data in a whole new way. Esri Maps for Office enables you to drill into your Excel information on maps, to uncover patterns and trends not evident in tabular data and charts. This product is not yet released. For more information, please refer to:
www.esri.com/mapsforofficebeta
ArcGIS for Windows Mobile helps organizations deliver GIS capabilities and data from centralized servers to a range of mobile devices. You can use ArcGIS for Windows Mobile to deploy intuitive and productive mobile GIS applications to increase the accuracy and improve the currency of GIS data across your organization
ArcGIS for Windows Mobile includes a software development kit (SDK) that lets developers use simple tools to create lightweight GIS-focused applications customized to users' needs. Use the SDK to create and deploy focused mobile applications that can operate in a connected or disconnected environment; build geocentric applications that provide GIS functionality including map display and navigation, GPS support, and editing; and enhance line-of-business applications, such as customer relationship management and field service automation systems, with geospatial capabilities.
The ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Windows Phone enables you to build applications that utilize the powerful mapping, geocoding, geoprocessing, and custom capabilities provided by ArcGIS for Server. You also have the ability to embed ArcGIS maps and tasks into your line-of-business applications.
Extend your GIS from the office to your Windows Smartphone to find and share maps from ArcGIS Online, use tools to search, identify, measure, and query, plus collect and update GIS features and attributes. The ArcGIS Application for Windows Phone is available as a free
download from the Windows Marketplace.
ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight provides a smart, intuitive framework for looking at and interacting with maps. It is a configurable web application that allows you to easily build your own custom mapping application in just a few minutes, with no programming required. The Viewer is available as a
download on the Esri Resource Center.
Quickly and easily create, display and share your information on interactive maps in SharePoint. ArcGIS for SharePoint enables Microsoft SharePoint users to add maps and GIS analytic tools to their SharePoint content. ArcGIS for SharePoint works with SharePoint 2010 and allows administrators to quickly add rich, interactive mapping capabilities that can be used by SharePoint users to share maps and tools across an organization. Built on the ArcGIS API for Silverlight, extensions can be developed through an included flexible extensibility API. This allows developers to create Silverlight extensions to interact with the map, display other content inside the web part, and communicate with web services and other external components. ArcGIS for SharePoint is available as a download and is easy to deploy to your SharePoint installation.
ArcGIS API for SilverlightThe ArcGIS API for Silverlight enables you to create rich internet and desktop applications that utilize the powerful mapping, geocoding, and geoprocessing capabilities provided by ArcGIS Server and Bing™ services. The API is built on the Microsoft Silverlight platform which is integrated with Visual Studio 2010 and Expression Blend 4. The Microsoft Silverlight platform includes a lightweight version of the .NET Framework CLR (CoreCLR) and the Silverlight runtime - all hosted via a browser plug-in. To use the API, simply download and install the ArcGIS API for Silverlight and start creating your Silverlight applications using Visual Studio 2010 or Expression Blend 4.
As a quick deployment solution built upon Microsoft Fusion Framework, Microsoft and Esri have jointly developed Fusion Core Solution, an easy-to-use, quick-to-configure solution that combines the robust capabilities of the Esri ArcGIS ArcGIS Advanced Enterprise server and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. With Microsoft Fusion Framework and Fusion Core Solution, agencies can seamlessly move information from intake to analysis to dissemination in a multiple-agency, multilevel environment, while utilizing existing assets and integrating with domain-specific applications. This gives agencies the ability to take proactive action to prepare for and respond to crises and to counter potential threats and criminal activities.
Esri has partnered with Microsoft to offer online applications that query, map, and utilize geo-enabled data in the DataMarket, and a collection of premium demographic datasets. Esri data for 2010 Key US Demographics by ZIP Code, Place and County is available. Esri has a team of demographers, statisticians, and economists who use a wide variety of public and private data sources to develop a uniquely accurate and detailed picture of local population, economic, housing, and business characteristics. Using Geographic Information System tools and our strong demographic estimating experience, Esri captures the effects of significant events that occur between decennial Censuses. Esri provides a proven track record of accuracy and agility. Current year variables ensure that analysts and the public alike can conduct their research with the most accurate information available which is especially critical in fast changing areas.