Planning for Building a GIS 39th Edition

Fall 2016 Planning for Building a GIS 39th Edition

Planning for Building a GIS includes four videos that share a methodology for completing your business requirements in preparation for an effective System Architecture Design. 

GIS Planning (Business discovery process)

 * GIS Planning (Business discovery process) VIDEO



GIS Planning session introduces the parts of a GIS, identifies where to begin the planning process, and shares best practices in preparing for your GIS user requirements study.


 * Parts of a GIS
 * Know what you want to get out of it
 * Where to begin
 * Consider the strategic purpose
 * Build the foundation (executive sponsorship)
 * Requirements study preparation
 * Identify in-house project team
 * Initial visits - department briefings
 * Technology seminar
 * ArcGIS deployment patterns
 * System of record
 * System of engagement
 * User requirements analysis
 * Information product description
 * Data requirements
 * Application deployment patterns
 * User needs requirements summary
 * System architecture design

ArcGIS technology is advancing making it easier than ever before to leverage available data resources to optimize your business return on investment. A pattern is emerging where organizations can rapidly deploy location based system of engagement capabilities, with minimum risk and cost, that can optimize return on investment from existing business information resources. 

Brian Cross, Director of Professional Services at Esri, shares a YouTube video on 5 Steps to Launch your Web GIS, a process for leveraging Web GIS technology to rapidly expand return on investment from your existing system of record resources and shared Online Web services. The first three steps of this process delivers a Web GIS initial operating capability that leverages existing IT resources. Steps 4 and 5 provides a methodology for incrementally expanding your business operations to achieve optimum benefits from evolving ArcGIS technology. The methodology shared in the Planning for Building a GIS videos and the associated System Architecture Design Strategies documentation can significantly reduce risk and improve success of operational changes and larger system deployments. 

Information product description

 * Information product description VIDEO



GIS information products are the foundation for GIS planning. This session provides best practices for identifying appropriate GIS information products and preparing the source documentation for completing your GIS user requirements analysis.


 * Examine your business processes
 * Information product description
 * IPD specifications
 * Describe the information product
 * - Output
 * - Product steps
 * - Timing
 * - Design issues
 * - Cost Benefit
 * Tracking the IPD (case study)



Use case profile (project workflow patterns)

 * Use case profile (project workflow patterns) VIDEO



The information product description, supporting data needs, and business use case profiles can be used to identify appropriate software deployment patterns. This session will share the available ArcGIS software deployment patterns available to support your business needs, and share an example analysis for completing your user needs requirements summary.


 * User requirements analysis
 * Information product description
 * Data requirements
 * Use case profile (application needs)
 * Software technology patterns
 * ArcGIS for Desktop
 * ArcGIS for Server
 * User location and connectivity
 * Technical architecture
 * Project workflow patterns
 * User requirements summary
 * ArcGIS Platform
 * Desktop operations
 * Web operations
 * Mobile operations
 * Web GIS (ArcGIS Online and Portal for ArcGIS)
 * Electric Solutions Business Case
 * Software deployment patterns
 * User needs requirements summary



Display performance (Workflow performance targets)

 * Display performance (Workflow performance targets)



Workflow deployment profiles and associated display complexity provide a foundation for your System Architecture Design. This session will review workflow performance terminology and share a methodology for establishing appropriate performance budgets for your identified business workflows.


 * User workflow loads analysis
 * Performance terminology
 * User workflow (productivity, display complexity)
 * Display performance terminology (response time, queue time)
 * Workflow productivity (cycle time, think time)
 * System performance (Transaction, Throughput, Capacity, Utilization)
 * Types of workflows (mapping services, batch processes)
 * Electric Solutions Business Case
 * Solutions summary
 * User workflow loads analysis
 * Display/workflow complexity assessment
 * User needs requirements summary (with complexity and productivity)



Capacity Planning Tool (CPT) instructional videos

 * Capacity Planning Tool (CPT) instructional videos

The City of Rome Capacity Planning Tool demos share how the user needs requirements summary, developed in the Planning for Building a GIS videos above, can be used as an input to complete your System Architecture Design.

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