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Esri ArcGIS Overview

What is Esri ArcGIS?

ArcGIS is a comprehensive suite of mapping and location intelligence tools and capabilities. ArcGIS can be deployed on local machines (ArcGIS Pro), on your remote or on-premises servers (ArcGIS Enterprise), or as SaaS hosted by Esri (ArcGIS Online). ArcGIS includes focused apps to deliver complete solutions for your business or organization. Along with software, Esri provides a comprehensive collection of data and content to geo-enrich your own data. ArcGIS also provides rich software development tools for you to configure and create your own mapping and location intelligence products.

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Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified)
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Product Description

Esri ArcGIS connects maps, apps, data, and people so you can make smarter, faster decisions. It gives everyone in your organization the ability to discover, use, make, and share maps from any device, anywhere, anytime.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Esri offers the most powerful mapping and location intelligence capabilities in the world. Organizations of every size and industry use ArcGIS to make and share beautiful, data-rich maps to improve operational and business results. ArcGIS provides universal smart mapping capabilities that can be up and running quickly and when combined with location intelligence, helps organizations tell strategic stories and provide insights to improve their business performance. Esri offers services, training, and technical certifications to accelerate technology adoption, help organizations build a workforce skilled in applying best practices, and achieve the optimal return on their ArcGIS investment.


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Esri is the global market leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, location intelligence, and mapping. Since 1969, we have supported customers with geographic science and geospatial analytics, what we call The Science of Where. We take a geographic approach to problem-solving, brought to life by modern GIS technology.


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Recent Esri ArcGIS Reviews

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"Powerful and Flexible"
The graet deal of flexibilty to integrate data. Accessed multiple times during the work day, daily users love the maps as a basis to research data...
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5.0 out of 5
"Functionality and uses"
It's work with both mode online and offline and 3D visualization is good,best for network designing
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"The best GIS tool with powerful functionality"
Powerful functionality to do map layers and visualizations, gain insights from geospatial analysis
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Esri ArcGIS Demo - Find the best sites
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Esri ArcGIS Demo - Monitor your assets with ArcGIS
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Esri ArcGIS Demo - Design intelligent maps
Use ArcGIS Online's smart mapping tools to design interactive maps.
Esri ArcGIS Demo - Collect data in the field
Gather critical data in the field with ArcGIS Apps to map out your resources.
Esri ArcGIS Demo - Use ArcGIS across business groups
Create multiple user roles within ArcGIS Online.
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What do you like best about Esri ArcGIS?

-easy to use tool box

-Best tool for map plotting

-tool help options are available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Esri ArcGIS?

- high amount for subscription

- required high memory to process Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Esri ArcGIS solving and how is that benefiting you?

- delineation of watershed

- to create hydrological routing files Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Esri ArcGIS?

Making geospatial data available to others is quick and painless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Esri ArcGIS?

Desktop version (10.6.1 ArcMap) is a bit slow. Context menus cause the screens to blink intermitently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Esri ArcGIS:

Consider the type of tools you will use from ArcGIS desktop vs PRO. Pro will be the substitution for ArcGIS Desktop, and if you can start using it, migrating will be easier when Desktop is out. Not everything is available in PRO, but now is a good time to start thinking about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Esri ArcGIS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Address updates, zonification updates. Editing of complex layers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Esri ArcGIS?

ArcGIS is what is taught in most universities when people are learning how to use GIS. As such most people are familiar with the program. once you know what you are doing, presenting data because a breeze and it helps make whatever point you have even more impactful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Esri ArcGIS?

Not necessarily a dislike on ArcGIS but GIS as a whole. Unless you are actively using the service over a period of time, it becomes very easy to forget and lose all the training you've had. The program itself isn't very friendly to users who have used GIS and may have become rusty. Maybe if the program had more help options? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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It's probably your best bet considering most colleges teach this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Esri ArcGIS solving and how is that benefiting you?

As stated in my "likes" section, GIS is an amazing tool to emphasize map-based data. Something like a heat map and really sink home what you are trying to say. Charts and graphs quite don't have the oomph. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Esri ArcGIS?

ArcGIS is so useful for all elements of spatial analysis and spatial data visualisation, enabling the production of professional-quality map outputs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Esri ArcGIS?

There are some quirks in the software code which can cause problems with the user, such as limiting length of file names in certail toolboxes, problems with filepath names etc. Software is also expensive and there are cheaper alternatives which do a similar job as effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Esri ArcGIS:

Make sure to also consider cheaper or free alternatives to ArcGIS such as QGIS; this has many of the same features and more, and also allows for use of bespoke plugins created by third parties Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Esri ArcGIS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Enables rapid analysis of spatial variations in land cover via raster calculation image differencing and mapping of ecosystem services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Esri ArcGIS?

The natural power of spatially relating meaningful data really can't be understated. This is something that I believe all GIS professionals understand and love. In practice, location based data is on its own informative and provides relational possibilities, context and insight to data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Esri ArcGIS?

I would love to add more data / have greater context. Perhaps in the future there will be high definition base maps or data authorities that will manage / model to a level of detail that is consistent with reality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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ArcMap and Pro needs improvements to graphical and ease of drawing features. Yes, they are data tools - however much of the discussion of CAD vs ArcMap in the past defaults to CAD for design. The middle ground approach of accessibility and user success is good, however technical drawing tools could be better streamlined / available. For example, bearing calculations and offsets are do-able via COGO toolbar, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Esri ArcGIS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Wet utilities - currently water and wastewater networking.

Knowledge of asset positioning and relation to other improvement features is critical in terms of time savings and meta information review. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Esri ArcGIS?

The Esri SOlutions environment provides the tools required to create holistic solutions from data collection in the field to managing the data in the background, to displaying and reporting infomration and metrics to consumers everything I need to develop and deploy powerful busness applications exists within the Esri Solutions Suite and it is instantly geo-encoded for spatial and temporal purposes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Esri ArcGIS?

Whats not to like about a hetergeous environment for building critical applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Esri ArcGIS solving and how is that benefiting you?

With the Esri Solutions I am able to create holistic applications for data management, awareness, and strategic and tatical decision making purposes whether for {ublic Safety, Commercial Business, or Defense purposes these solutions coupled with real-time data provides endless possibilites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Esri ArcGIS?

The user interface is very good. The tools available can suffice most is the users' needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Esri ArcGIS?

There are a few minor bugs here and there, for such the software crashes sometimes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Esri ArcGIS:

It would be totally worth the price. Three overall experience is very good, and ESRI makes sure this software meets your user needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Esri ArcGIS solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm working on flash flood modelling, and i use Arcgis for most of the presimulation tasks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Esri ArcGIS?

I like the customizability of the software with the use of Python and R that allows for the building of niche geoprocessing and data management tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Esri ArcGIS?

I dislike the fact that certain data types like very large raster data sets significantly slow down ArcGIS programs and cause them to crash on occasion. I do wish that there was an automatic save function that would save every change made every 30 seconds or so. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Esri ArcGIS solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am currently locating active and inactive pipeline point data and finding those that need to be reviewed in order to only load point data that is both active and accurate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Esri ArcGIS?

As far as GIS software goes, nothing is more user friendly than products in the ArcGIS suite (pro, map, ect.). Also there are o many extensions that allow for more versatility in my work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Esri ArcGIS?

The main problem I have is the price, it's easy for large crporations to afford enterprise licenses or individual licenses, but when some friend of mine are looking at getting it for projects like Civil Air Patrol, it is way to expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Esri ArcGIS solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use ArcGIS to curate my data for another program called Signature Analyst which analyzes the spatial signature of geospatial item. No other software has the power to process my data that quickly and is able to keep the same level of consitancy. Also it is very easy to train new people on how to use ArcGIS for data prep. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.