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What actions are you taking as a result of what you heard at the conference? How will what you heard at the conference affect your operations? Are there things that you heard that you would like to see AIMS take the lead on? What is the biggest deterrent to keeping your GIS operations successful? 2007 ESRI User Conference

What do you think the big conference topics were

Data Does the data you’re collecting build on the framework of GIS information Are you collaborating on the development of your data Access to data – Must be easy and affordable to be consumable

Need more emphasis here

Use Author Serve This is your return on investment From the AIMS Strategic Plan in 2000

Plenary Session GIS is being embedded in to an endless number of processes We need to push our services to solve problems, create efficiences, make better decisions, etc… Place less concern on the technical details and more on the use of data

ArcGIS Explorer ArcWeb Services and ArcOnline Services being integrated with ArcExplorer Likely underutilized in Johnson County –Opportunities to be used as a lightweight data viewer that offers a GUI similar to Google Earth, etc –Has capabilities for geoprocessing tasks, portal development, performance measurements, etc. –Allows you to build your own customized Google Earth with the data you administer and custom tools

Other Map Platforms Google, Virtual Earth, Yahoo… –These are good platforms for displaying and accessing data –They have become the industry standards for usability –ESRI supporting through ArcGIS Server OGC standards (e.g. WMS) and REST API offerings –They lack the processing tools to do analysis

What’s the role Skill Level Client Internet Desktop Web – can click a few buttons Desktop – editing, analysis, full-featured tools Opportunities here for ArcGIS Explorer, Google, Virtual Earth Light editing, geoprocessing, reporting, analysis tools

ArcGIS Future Release More functionality enhancements in service packs 9.3 will be a performance release –EDN will get 9.3 preview Support service being enhanced –Online bug/incident access

ArcGIS Release Cycle Sp 2Sp 3 Sp Q2Q3Q4 Sp ? Q2

Enterprise GIS ArcGIS Server getting huge interest but in ESRI’s opinion, it’s not being extensively implemented Why not? Kind of like data, it needs to be east to use and affordable Govs early adopters of GIS because don’t typically have to justify ROI of excessive spending

Key IT Themes Priorities are the same in 2007 as they were 10 years ago –security, eGov, data sharing, streamlining, collaboration

Key GIS Themes in Gov Collaboration Consolidation Service Oriented Architecture Business Continuity Portals Performance Measurements

Hot Gov Topics What’s In –GIS in Public Works –ArcGIS Server in Transportation –Greening –Executive Dashboard –Routing

What’s the take away Issues aren’t rapidly changing Technology is rapidly changing Technology is simply a delivery mechanism, not a solution Users don’t want to be GIS analysts Users want the tools to make decisions

Big Buzzwords SOA – Service Oriented Architecture –Delivery of services via the web by some standard –e.g. address web service, user authentication system REST – Respresentational State Transfer Mashups API/ADF OGC – Open GIS Consortium Web Services Data Fusion Centers

9.2 Conversion Expressed our disappointment in the communication of 9.2 release changes Expressed our need for a stable, continuous GIS platform