

The various products had branched out into multiple source trees and did not integrate well with one another. Other Esri products included MapObjects, a programming library for developers, and ArcSDE as a Relational database management system. Prior to the ArcGIS suite, Esri had focused its software development on the command line Arc/INFO Workstation program and several Graphical User Interface-based products such as the ArcView GIS 3.x desktop program. ArcGIS is scalable and can be integrated with other enterprise systems such as work order management, business intelligence, and executive dashboards. These technologies integrate together allowing someone using the software to create data, perform advanced geospatial analysis, and publish it out as a service so that it can be consumed in web applications, mobile devices, or other desktop software.ĪrcGIS can be considered an integrated collection of GIS software products that provides a standards-based platform for spatial analysis, data management, and mapping. 34☃′25.35″N 117☁1′44.44″W / 34.0570417°N 117.1956778°W / 34.0570417 -117.1956778ĪrcGIS, ArcView, ArcEditor, ArcInfo, ArcGIS Server, ArcIMS, ArcSDE,ĪrcGIS is a product suite developed by Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri), that is comprised of several technologies ranging from the desktop and server, to the hand held device or open source client.
