1. Allen County’s Experience
Portal for ArcGIS
Allen County’s Experience
Dave Estes - GIS Coordinator
Allen County
200 E Berry Street, Ste. 415
Fort Wayne, IN 46802

2. Portal for ArcGIS What is Portal for ArcGIS?
Why consider Portal for ArcGIS?
How to implement
Where we are…
Where we want to go…
Demonstration(s)

3. What is Portal for ArcGIS?
The ESRI Portal for ArcGIS software is the software that creates an ArcGIS Online functionality within the customer’s environment.

4. Why consider Portal for ArcGIS?
Share and Collaborate
Web/Mobile Device Compatibililty
Ease of use by “non-GIS” staff
Part of Allen County’s ELA

5. How to Implement Portal for ArcGIS
Highly recommend Portal as part of an ELA
Virtualized Server Architecture
ESRI did the actual installation*
Train departments on how to use

6. We are at the beginning…
Where we are…
We are at the beginning…

7. Where we are.. ELA began in January 2013
Server virtualization completed February 2013
Portal for ArcGIS installed by ESRI March 2013
GIS Visioning Workshop March 19th & 20th – Stakeholder buy-in

8. Where we are…
Creating basemaps and learning how to create applications
Demonstrating workflows to incorporate Portal maps into presentations and web pages

9. Where we want to go…
High percentage of internal departments using Portal to share data and collaborate on projects
Non-GIS staff collecting data and creating maps as part of their workflow

10. Where we want to go… Implement GIS functions on mobile devices
Field Mapping
Analytics
Data collection
Create applications to serve the public

11. Demonstration

12. Questions? Thank You! Dave Estes - GIS Coordinator Allen County
200 E Berry Street, Ste. 415
Fort Wayne, IN 46802
Thank You!