Enterprise GIS for Local Government Date: September 2007 Subject: This white paper introduces a set of best practices to help governments move away from isolated or, at best, loosely related departmental GIS to an integrated GIS that serves the entire organization as an enterprise. [PDF]
ESRI Cartography: Capabilities and Trends Date: June 2004 Subject: This document gives an overview of the cartographic production capabilities of ESRI ArcGIS software and highlights how the products are being enhanced to provide the world's leading solution for database-driven map publishing. [PDF]
ESRI Geospatial Portal Technology Date: June 2007 Subject: This white paper introduces ESRI's approach to the discovery and exchange of geospatial information on the Web and outlines portal technology ESRI has developed in that context. [PDF]
Interoperability in Enterprise GIS Date: April 2005 Subject: This white paper summarizes ESRI's strategy for supporting an interoperable enterprise GIS suitable for large mapping organizations, given current technology, practices, and trends in the software industry. [PDF]
System Design Strategies Date: July 2007 Subject: This technical reference document shares a system design strategy that promotes successful selection of GIS enterprise architecture (updated twice a year). [PDF]
Technical Briefs
Enterprise Storage Options—Explores the differences among storage solutions: direct attached storage (DAS), storage area network (SAN), and network area storage (NAS) [PDF]
ArcSDE Tiered Hardware Configurations—Describes how ArcSDE is part of a flexible GIS data management architecture and can be set up in a two- or three-tiered hardware set up with multiple GIS client connection options [PDF]
Test reports document testing and evaluation of ESRI software in different environments with special focus on system design, functionality, and performance. They evaluate third-party software and hardware products and how they integrate with ESRI software. These reports are good references to use during the planning and implementation phases of a GIS.
Dual Core ArcIMS Capacity and Scalability Testing—Evaluates the performance and capacity of an ArcIMS server based on dual core Intel CPUs relative to a single core Intel CPU and also includes hyperthreading scalability testing [PDF]
HP AMD Server Performance Validation Testing—Demonstrates the predictability of performance and scalability of HP AMD servers relative to an established baseline and using Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) benchmarks [PDF]
ArcGIS 9.x MXD Layers Scalability Testing—Examines how performance and scalability are affected by increasing the number of layers in an ArcMap document (MXD) [PDF]
ArcGIS Desktop Client Memory Testing—Tests the impact of client memory on map display response time when accessing data on a file server and through an ArcSDE application server connection [PDF]
ArcSDE 9.1 SP1 and SQL Server 2005 MSCS Active/Passive Cluster Configuration—Documents a working configuration of ArcSDE 9.1 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Microsoft’s SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition in an active/passive Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) configuration for the purpose of creating a high-availability ArcSDE data server [PDF]
