Systems

Explore best practices for managing geospatial data and technology, and deploying GIS architecture

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Architecting an enterprise GIS system

Designing, building, and maintaining a modern enterprise GIS can be challenging in today's fast-moving IT world. It is critical to ensure that your location enterprise solution is built upon a sound and reliable foundation. Taking a system of systems approach that creates a strong geospatial capability for your organization can be accomplished through important foundational elements that consider building upon a well architected framework.

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Key considerations

  • Data, information, and product management

    A system of record is more than a place to store your data, information, and transactions. It is also an enterprise solution to how you share, provide access to, control, and make discoverable your organization's authoritative location data.  

  • Access and sharing

    A system of engagement promotes interaction between your business and GIS through maps, apps, and data. A system of engagement also increases communication, collaboration, and enables access to content internally and externally with partners and the public. 

  • Reporting and analytics

    A system of insight is used to explore relationships and understand data within an enterprise solution. It provides the means to conduct deep analytics to uncover trends and patterns, enabling creative and robust innovation with cutting-edge solutions.

  • Automation and integration

    Automation increasingly drives efficiency in modern systems by allowing organizations to spend more time on building new features, capabilities, and experiences, rather than on manual processes. Enterprise integration connects enterprise systems to amplify organizational productivity.

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Deploy ArcGIS on a solid foundation

Working in today’s IT landscape requires context, expertise, and collaboration. It also involves many organization and system-specific decisions and processes. With this in mind, Esri provides the ArcGIS Well-Architected Framework to support your organization in making informed decisions when implementing systems with ArcGIS. To learn more about ArcGIS technology, common system patterns, and architecture practices, go to the ArcGIS Architecture Center

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