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ArcGIS Server

Complete and Integrated Server-Based GIS

Overview

ArcGIS Server makes it easy for organizations to share mapping services and applications across the Web.

With ArcGIS Server, you can

  • Connect more people with the information they need to make better decisions.
  • Publish fast, intuitive Web mapping applications and services tailored to your audience.
  • Simplify access to your services, data, and imagery.

ArcGIS Server supports desktop, Web-based, and mobile workflows. It helps you protect and manage your mapping information, and it provides a scalable platform that satisfies everything from the simplest to the most complex Web mapping requirements.

Key Features

Depending on what features you need, you can choose from among three editions of ArcGIS Server (Advanced, Standard, and Basic).

Advanced

Standard

Basic

Data Management
Provides geodata services for data extraction, replication, and synchronization, as well as a framework and tools for managing large spatial datasets in an RDBMS such as IBM DB2, IBM Informix, Oracle, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL. 

Y

Y

Y

GIS Web Services
Supports Web services including map, image, globe, locator, geoprocessing, KML, WMS, WCS, WFS, and WFS-T (REST and SOAP access are included with all editions.)

Y

Y

Mapping
Includes tools for creating rich browser-based Web mapping applications

Y

Y

Spatial Analysis
Supports server-based analysis and geoprocessing, including vector, raster, 3D, and network analytics as well as models, scripts, and tools

Y

Y

Publishing to Clients
Supports a broad range of clients including ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Explorer, ArcGIS for AutoCAD, and browser-based applications

Y

Y

Image Management
Supports a complete image management system for delivering large quantities of imagery that can be consumed in desktop, mobile, Web, and imagery clients

Y

Y

Web Mapping Application
Provides an out-of-the-box, configurable mapping application with tools for map navigation, identifying features, measuring distances, finding addresses, and querying and searching attributes

Y

Y

Application Developer Tools
Includes Application Development Frameworks (ADFs) for .NET and Javaand Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for JavaScript, Flex, andMicrosoft Silverlight/WPF

Y

Y

Spatial Web Editing
Supports spatial editing tasks for applications, such as adding, modifying and deleting map features like points, lines, and polygons

Y

Y

Advanced Spatial Analysis
3D Analyst, Geostatistical Analyst, Network Analyst, and Spatial Analyst extensions included at no extra cost

Y

Mobile GIS Application
Provides an out-of-the-box, configurable mobile application that allows mobile workforces to dynamically query and update server data remotely—is administered from ArcGIS Server, is integrated with GPS, and fits seamlessly into the enterprise IT environment

Y

Mobile Application Developer Tools
Provides tools to manage and deploy custom applications for use on mobile devices including a software developer kit (SDK) (Mobile applications can be deployed on Windows CE or Windows Mobile devices with the .NET Compact Framework and Windows XP or Vista PCs with .NET Framework.)

Y