ArcGIS Server

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

ArcGIS Server offers the following advantages:

Lower cost of ownership through centrally managed, focused GIS applications that can scale to support many users.
Browser-based access to GIS.
Integration with other enterprise systems such as customer relationship management (CRM) or enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems using industry-standard software. ArcGIS Server provides the foundation for geospatially enabling a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
Support for interoperability standards in both the GIS domain (Open Geospatial Consortium) as well as the broader information technology (IT) domain (W3C).
Ability to create custom applications using .NET or Java.

ArcGIS Server complements ArcGIS Desktop by allowing GIS analysts to cost-effectively author maps, globes, and geoprocessing tasks on their desktop and publish them to ArcGIS Server using integrated tools. GIS functions can then be delivered as services throughout the enterprise.

ArcGIS Server provides the foundation for a geospatial SOA. It allows common GIS functions to be delivered as services throughout the enterprise.

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With the release of ArcGIS 9.2, ArcGIS Server delivers a complete and integrated server-based GIS. It supports spatial data management, mapping, and spatial analysis across distributed systems. To achieve this, ESRI has integrated ArcSDE technology into ArcGIS Server to provide a single product encompassing Web GIS technology and comprehensive data management technology.

Editions and Levels
ArcGIS Server 9.2 offers a scalable line of server product editions built on a common set of technology components that are distinguished by both functionality and server capacity. To better assist the geographic data management needs and requirements of server users, ArcSDE technology is included with all three editions of ArcGIS Server.

Editions
ArcGIS Server Basic is designed for GIS users who want shared access to geographic data. It provides

Core geodatabase management tools
Technology for data storage, management (ArcSDE), and distribution (Web-based data replication).

ArcGIS Server Standard is designed for GIS users who want to visualize and publish geographic data as maps and globes. It includes all of the functionality of the Basic edition plus

A collection of 2D and 3D Web mapping/geopublishing tools, applications, and services.
Access to components (objects, Web controls, and services) for building solutions on both the Java and .NET frameworks.

ArcGIS Server Advanced is designed for GIS organizations that want to provide a central, server-based GIS for distributing GIS services across the organization or over the Internet. It includes all the capabilities of the Basic and Standard editions, plus a collection of advanced Web applications and services. These applications and services include

A browser-based editing application
Numerous geoprocessing services
The ability to supply custom tasks to ArcGIS Explorer clients
Multitiered components for building and deploying both J2EE and .NET 2.0 applications and services for traditional desktop, mobile, Smart Client, and enterprise deployments.

Levels
Each ArcGIS Server edition is offered at an Enterprise level and a Workgroup level. These levels define each edition's capacity.

Enterprise—The Enterprise level of ArcGIS Server supports an unlimited number of users via either direct connect or connection to an application server. It offers DBMS support for IBM DB2, IBM Informix, all editions of Microsoft SQL Server, and Oracle. It has no data or memory limits.

Workgroup—The Workgroup level of ArcGIS Server supports a maximum of 10 direct connect users. It includes an embedded DBMS (Microsoft SQL Server Express). It has a data limit of 4 GB and a memory limit of 1 GB.

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Other ArcGIS Server Enhancements

Numerous out-of-the-box end user applications and services (e.g., viewers and browser-based geodatabase editors) for mapping, analysis, collection, editing, distribution, and management of spatial information.
Dynamic and cached 2D maps and 3D globes
Greater synergy with ArcGIS Desktop by allowing GIS analysts to author maps, globes, and geoprocessing tasks on their desktop, then publish them to ArcGIS Server using integrated tools.
Browser-based Manager for publishing services, building applications, and administering GIS server
Support for numerous standards and industry specifications. Users can publish 2D maps adhering to Open Geospatial Consortium Web Map Service specifications, as well as 3D globes to the KML specification.

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