ArcGIS Enterprise is the foundational software system for building Web GIS systems, helping to strengthen and extend mapping and visualization, data analysis, and data management capabilities on the web. It is the backbone for running Esri’s ready-to-use applications as well as GIS applications that users develop themselves. ArcGIS Enterprise is tightly integrated with ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Pro and also connects seamlessly with ArcGIS Online to share GIS content between systems.
Collaboration and flexibility are at the heart of ArcGIS Enterprise, allowing users to organize and share their GIS data, information, and applications on any device, anywhere, anytime.
ArcGIS Enterprise gives administrators full control over deploying and operating a Web GIS system. It can run on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Kubernetes, and can be deployed on a single small server as well as in a large multi-server system, on:
- Public cloud infrastructure
- Private cloud infrastructure
- On-premises infrastructure using physical or virtualized hardware
This flexibility opens up advanced capabilities to support different needs, such as real-time data monitoring, big data analytics, raster imagery analysis, image hosting services, and data processing workflows. ArcGIS Enterprise can also be deployed in environments with or without an Internet connection and can be configured to prevent data loss and system downtime in the event of a disaster.
Components of ArcGIS Enterprise
Four components of ArcGIS Enterprise work together to provide comprehensive functionality for web mapping, exploiting remote sensing imagery, real-time data processing, large-volume batch analytics, and spatial analysis:
- ArcGIS Server supports mapping and analysis in GIS applications. ArcGIS Server consists of several server software products with specialized roles and functions, which can scale flexibly to support the system as traffic grows. These include: ArcGIS GIS Server, ArcGIS Image Server, ArcGIS GeoEvent Server, ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Server, ArcGIS Notebook Server, and ArcGIS Workflow Manager Server.
- ArcGIS Enterprise portal is a centralized GIS portal where users create, share, and manage maps, applications, and spatial data, and share that content with others.
- ArcGIS Data Store provides fast data storage for the hosting server used with your deployment.
- ArcGIS Web Adaptor integrates ArcGIS Server and the ArcGIS Enterprise portal with web servers and with an organization’s existing security infrastructure.
A base ArcGIS Enterprise deployment is a minimally configured system that combines all four ArcGIS Enterprise components above. Once such a base deployment is installed, ArcGIS Enterprise can be used as is or can be configured to enable additional capabilities.
ArcGIS Enterprise Licensing
ArcGIS Enterprise is licensed by number of users and by system capacity. Users are licensed based on user types, with secure access to information and the ability to create GIS content.
