GIS Application and Development An Enterprise GIS Approach

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GIS Application and DevelopmentAn Enterprise GIS
Approach

• ByAhmad Aswadi Yusof
• Technical Manager
• Email aswadi_at_espatial.com.my

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How is GIS used?

• Economic development
• Elections
• Environmental management
• Health and human services
• Homeland security
• Land records and cadastral solutions
• Law enforcement

• Public safety
• Natural resources
• Telecommunications
• Transportation
• Utilities maintenance
• Water resources
• Agriculture
• Defense
• Local government

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GIS Integrates Workflows
Planning
Management
Science
Operations
Engineering
. . . Supporting Collaboration
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The Evolving GIS Landscape
Social Factors
Roads/Infrastructure
Hydrology
Key Concepts
Land Use/Land Cover

• Georeferencing
• Digital Processing
• Map Overlay
• Spatial Analysis
• Visualization
• Map Production

Imagery
Environment
Topography
. . . Integrating Disciplines, Organizations
and Activities
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GIS is Evolving to a Web Services Environment
From Project and Workgroup to Enterprise
Information System
GIS is Evolving to a Web Services Environment . .
. Becoming More Distributed
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GIS Workspaces
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Emerging GIS Deployments
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Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Provides a Framework for Integrating GIS and
Enterprise Systems
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Enterprise Structural components

• Business
• Strategy maps, goals, corporate policies,
  Operating Model
• Functional decompositions, capabilities and
  organizational models
• Business processes
• Organization cycles, periods and timing
• Suppliers of hardware, software, and services
• Applications
• Application software inventories and diagrams
• Interfaces between applications - that is
  events, messages and data flows
• Intranet, Extranet, Internet, eCommerce, EDI
  links with parties within and outside of the
  organization

• Information
• Metadata
• Data models conceptual, logical, and physical
• Technology
• Hardware, platforms, and hosting servers, and
  where they are kept
• Local and wide area networks, Internet
  connectivity diagrams
• Operating System
• Infrastructure software Application servers,
  DBMS
• Programming Languages, etc..

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Enterprise GIS

• A geographic information system that is
  integrated through an entire organization so that
  a large number of users can manage, share, and
  use spatial data and related information to
  address a variety of needs, including data
  creation, modification, visualization, analysis,
  and dissemination.

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Enterprise GIS

• Enterprise GIS is an organizationwide approach to
  GIS implementation, operation, and management.
• It integrates spatial data and technology across
  the organization, coupling centralized management
  with decentralized use

• Enterprise GIS involves an integrated database
  and system architecture that provides users with
  different types and levels of access and
  functionality tailored to support their work
  processes, locations, and devices.
• Its design also integrates with other data and
  systems within an organization. Although it is
  enabled by technology tools, enterprise GIS is a
  management approach.

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Enterprise GIS Characteristics

• Central IT Based Server Environments
• Business Logic / Data Management / Security /
  Standardizations
• Ability to Share Resources, Functionality Data
• Client Access Main or Regional Offices, Home or
  in the Field
• Thick or Thin, Mobile or Stationary Clients
• Support Multiple Users
• Built on Industry Standards
• Examples .NET, Java, XML/SOAP Protocols, HTTP
• Service Oriented Approaches (Web Services)

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Benefits of the Enterprise GIS

• Communications
• open lines of information exchange between
  departments, functions and individuals speed
  workflow and reduce errors and inefficiencies.
• Services
• faster flow of information and access to data
  about surrounding resources can enable office
  staff and field crews to solve problems faster
  and respond to customers easier and more
  accurately.
• Accountability
• access to up-to-the minute information and the
  ability to generate timely, relevant and
  customized reports enables decision-makers of all
  levels to perform more effectively and more
  transparently.
• Response
• GIS integration can dramatically reduce the time
  needed to react to hourly, daily or monthly
  functions, and provide an opportunity to be
  proactive instead of simply reactive.

• Protection
• optimized allocation of personnel and resources
  can give your community greater security at all
  levels and enable you to plan more effectively
  for future contingencies.
• Efficiency
• limited resources stretch farther through more
  valid and meaningful planning, budgeting and
  spending. Savings can be achieved in a variety of
  areas ranging from parts planning to personnel
  allocation
• Compliance
• maximized information access can keep governments
  up-to-the-minute on environmental, legal and
  financial regulations timely reporting and
  planning gives managers greater decision-making
  confidence.
• Access
• instead of valuable information being isolated in
  the memories of individual workers, it can be
  shared, updated and utilized by everyone who
  needs it.

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Benefits of the Enterprise GIS

• Why Use an Application Server Instead of a Thick
  Client?
• Reduce update and administration
• Lower client hardware costs
• Reduce network traffic
• Manage all technology in machine room
• What are the returns on investment today?
• Cost savings associated with new hardware
  Implementation
• Simplification of Processes
• Risk Reduction
• Integration of disparate technologies /
  applications

• Allow you to Reduce
• Licensing of Software
• Installation of Applications
• Redundancy of Data
• Duplication of Resources
• Implement Corporate or Agency Standards

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Purposes of Enterprise GIS

• Broad access to geographic data and processing
• Common infrastructure to build and deploy GIS
• Gain Economies of Scale through organizationwide
  GIS use

• Address business needs collectively instead of
  individually!

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Enterprise GIS

• Just like other Enterprise IT Systems
• Architecture
• Interfaces
• Development tools
• Deployment strategies
• Standards

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Return of Investment

• Reduced staff time per project
• Elimination of errors caused by maintaining
  duplicate systems
• Greater community support
• Elimination of costly outsourcing of mapping
  functions
• Ability to boost revenues through more efficient
  tax and fee collection

• Optimized ability to support grant and other
  funding applications
• Improved decision making
• Better accountability
• Leveraged value of existing technology tools
• Valuable tool for future growth planning
• Better utilization of limited resources
• Overall cost savings

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Enterprise GIS Challenges

• Underestimating the task
• Insufficient resource
• Generalized implementation plan
• Coordination difficulties
• Lack of commitment

• Shareholder reluctance to cede power
• Loss of momentum
• Difficulties justifying the project
• Limiting development to incremental improvements

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Getting Started
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Firewall
GIS Server
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Spatial Visualisation System
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Spatial Visualization System

• Visualize
• Analyze
• Collaborate
• Decide

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Spatial Visualization System

• Technical Specification

• Benefits

• 39 x 22 (45 diagonal)
• 1920 x 1080 pixel native resolution
• High brightness (450 nits)
• High contrast (8001)
• 170 x 170 viewing angle
• Low-reflection screen
• Mobile convertible stand (draft, table and
  presentation modes)
• Electric lift mechanism
• Sturdy, industrial-strength frame, base and
  connections

• Improves decision making by facilitating
  discussion and debate.
• Geographically separated teams can visualize and
  share ideas in real-time.
• Tilt and height adjustments coupled with system
  mobility allow the TT45 to be moved and
  configured as needed.

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Enterprise GIS Technology
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About ArcGIS

• ArcGIS is a complete system for
• authoring, serving, and using geographic
  information.
• It is an integrated collection of GIS software
  products for building and deploying a complete
  GIS wherever it is neededon desktops, servers,
  or custom applications over the Web or in the
  field.

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ESRI ArcGIS Server

• Applications that are distributed using ArcGIS
  Server can be accessed via the Web, desktop
  applications, or on mobile devices.

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ArcGIS Server

• ArcGIS Server is ESRI's primary server GIS
  product.
• It is a complete and integrated server-based GIS
  that comes with out-of-the-box, end user
  applications and services for spatial data
  management, visualization, and spatial analysis.

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ArcGIS Image Server

• ArcGIS Image Server is a management, processing,
  and distribution platform for geospatial imagery
  that integrates with ArcGIS Server. It provides
  fast and open access to geospatial imagery,
  allowing organizations to leverage their
  investments in raster data.

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Question and Answer
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