• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7T7beACtQs

• What actions are you taking as a result of what you heard at the conference?

• How will what you heard at the conference affect your operations?

• Are there things that you heard that you would like to see AIMS take the lead on?

• What is the biggest deterrent to keeping your GIS operations successful?

2007 ESRI User Conference

2007 ESRI User Conference

• What do you think the big conference topics were

Data

• Does the data you’re collecting build on the framework of GIS information

• Are you collaborating on the development of your data

• Access to data – Must be easy and affordable to be consumable

Need more

emphasis

here

Use

Author

Serve

This is

your return

on investment

From the AIMS Strategic Plan in 2000

Plenary Session

• GIS is being embedded in to an endless number of processes

• We need to push our services to solve problems, create efficiences, make better decisions, etc…

• Place less concern on the technical details and more on the use of data

ArcGIS Explorer

• ArcWeb Services and ArcOnline Services being integrated with ArcExplorer

• Likely underutilized in Johnson County– Opportunities to be used as a lightweight data viewer

that offers a GUI similar to Google Earth, etc

– Has capabilities for geoprocessing tasks, portal development, performance measurements, etc.

– Allows you to build your own customized Google Earth with the data you administer and custom tools

Other Map Platforms

• Google, Virtual Earth, Yahoo…– These are good platforms for displaying and

accessing data

– They have become the industry standards for usability

– ESRI supporting through ArcGIS Server OGC standards (e.g. WMS) and REST API offerings

– They lack the processing tools to do analysis

What’s the role

Skill Level

Clie

nt

Internet Desktop

Web – can click a few buttons

Desktop – editing, analysis, full-featured tools

Opportunities here for ArcGIS Explorer, Google, Virtual Earth

Light editing, geoprocessing, reporting, analysis tools

ArcGIS Future Release

• More functionality enhancements in service packs

• 9.3 will be a performance release– EDN will get 9.3 preview

• Support service being enhanced– Online bug/incident access

ArcGIS Release Cycle

9.2 9.3Sp 2 Sp 3 Sp 4

20082007 Q2 Q3 Q4

Sp 1

10.0?

Q2

Enterprise GIS

• ArcGIS Server getting huge interest but in ESRI’s opinion, it’s not being extensively implemented

• Why not? Kind of like data, it needs to be east to use and affordable

• Govs early adopters of GIS because don’t typically have to justify ROI of excessive spending

Key IT Themes

• Priorities are the same in 2007 as they were 10 years ago– security, eGov, data sharing,

streamlining, collaboration

Key GIS Themes in Gov

• Collaboration• Consolidation• Service Oriented Architecture• Business Continuity• Portals• Performance Measurements

Hot Gov Topics

• What’s In– GIS in Public Works– ArcGIS Server in Transportation– Greening – Executive Dashboard– Routing

What’s the take away

• Issues aren’t rapidly changing• Technology is rapidly changing• Technology is simply a delivery

mechanism, not a solution• Users don’t want to be GIS analysts• Users want the tools to make

decisions

Big Buzzwords

• SOA – Service Oriented Architecture– Delivery of services via the web by some standard– e.g. address web service, user authentication system

• REST – Respresentational State Transfer• Mashups• API/ADF• OGC – Open GIS Consortium• Web Services• Data Fusion Centers

9.2 Conversion

• Expressed our disappointment in the communication of 9.2 release changes

• Expressed our need for a stable, continuous GIS platform