Enterprise Resource Centre Added To The ESRI Resource Centres

A big new addition to the ESRI Resource Centres is the Enterprise Resource Centre. Launched a few days ago, the Enterprise Resource Centre contains resources to help IT professionals implement a sustainable enterprise GIS. The Enterprise Resource Centre contains best practices, patterns and guidance in the areas of security, performance and scalability, application architecture and interoperability.

The Enterprise Resource Centre is broken into three categories for resources.

Application Architectures

The ArcGIS Platform provides a comprehensive suite of applications and services. The Application Architecture section of the Enterprise GIS Resource Center provides an introduction to the ArcGIS Platform, along with standardized representations for each of the core Application Architectures. For more information on the different application types (Rich Client, etc.), including pros, cons and other considerations, please visit Microsoft’s® open source Application Architecture Guide.

Within this, there are four key areas covered. These include Rich Client Applications, Web Applications, Services, Mobile.

Security

The Security Resource Center provides unified access to Security related information for enterprise solutions utilizing ESRI products. It is intended primarily to help IT Architects, Managers and Administrators understand ESRI’s approach to security, and how the ArcGIS Platform can be implemented securely.

Three key areas are covered here. Strategy, Mechanisms, Application Security

Performance And Scalability

Performance is a measure of the speed at which a computer system works. Scalability is the ability to grow in size or complexity without showing negative effects. Problems in either area may expose the enterprise to operating inefficiencies and potentially general failure of critical business components. Testing, monitoring, and tuning the environment will ensure optimal performance and user satisfaction.

Three key areas here as well. Application Performance Considerations, Infrastructure Performance Considerations, Capacity, Performance Benchmarks and Testing.

 

To add to these excellent resources is the community. The community includes a number of galleries. The implementation gallery contains a number of resources from benchmarks through to security guidance through to test reports, while the media gallery includes a number presentation slide decks from the ESRI Developer Summit 2009.

This is a now a one stop portal for finding resources on implementing an enterprise GIS. It is a very valuable resource and encourage users to make use of the important resources on this new Enterprise Resource Centre.

You can find the Enterprise Resource Centre here: http://resources.esri.com/enterprisegis/