ArcGIS Server Success Stories. Danny Krouk 2008 ESRI Regional User Group Sacramento, CA

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1 ArcGIS Server Success Stories Danny Krouk 2008 ESRI Regional User Group Sacramento, CA

2 Agenda ArcGIS Server State of California, Resources Agency Responding to the Southern California Fires Bond Accountability Program County of Santa Cruz Storm Drain run-off awareness City of Anaheim Public Access to Integrated Parcel Information Custom Desktop Application with No Deployment Headaches Disaster-Response: Supporting Building Inspection Final Thoughts 2

3 All the power of ArcGIS Map View or query a 2D map on the server Globe View or query a 3D globe on the server 123 Fake Street Geocode Perform address matching on the server Geodata Perform data replication, extraction, or query over the intranet or Internet Geoprocessing Run a tool or model on the server and get the results back 3

4 in Any Client You Want! Desktop ArcMap, ArcCatalog, ArcReader Custom applications ArcGIS Explorer Web Mapping Applications Web Application wizard out-of of-the-box Custom applications Mobile applications Using the Mobile ADF Smart phones, Pocket PC s,, other mobile devices 4

5 ArcGIS Server 9.2: Author, Serve, Use Use Serve Author ArcGIS Server 5

6 Architecture - Overview Clients Browsers Desktops Mobile Custom Web Tier Web Server Web ADF GIS Server SOM Server Object Manager SOC Server Object Container Data ArcSDE technology Web Tier GIS Server Clients Internet Web Server Web ADF SOM SOC Data DBMS 6

7 Agenda ArcGIS Server State of California, Resources Agency Responding to the Southern California Fires Bond Accountability Program County of Santa Cruz Storm Drain run-off awareness City of Anaheim Public Access to Integrated Parcel Information Custom Desktop Application with No Deployment Headaches Disaster-Response: Supporting Building Inspection Final Thoughts 7

8 Responding to the Fall 2007 SoCal Fires State of California Resources Agency Supporting governor s s Office of Emergency Services Eric Kauffman, GIS Analyst Application Objectives: Respond quickly Provide up-to to-date information about fire perimeters, evacuation areas, and shelters (support the governor s s Office of Emergency Services) Provide a lean, easy-to to-use interface Leverage existing resources Provide excellent performance 8

9 Responding Quickly 1 day from concept to first application in production! Re-used code from the main MyHazards site Used ArcGIS Online cached basemap Assembled perimeter, evacuation area, and shelter data from various sources dynamic service overlay There was no time to create a basemap in an emergency like this 9

10 The Application 10

11 Technology Architecture Browsers Resources Agency Web Server ArcGIS Server ArcSDE/ RDBMS ArcGIS Online 11

12 Technical Keys to Success Clear, Achievable Vision Leveraged existing code and application structure Data Compilation Geocoding shelters Assembling perimeters Technical Skills Already a.net programmer Combination of GIS know-how and web application programming knowledge Capacity Plan Awareness of network capacity issues Ability to add hardware as necessary, to meet demand 12

13 Lessons Learned Caching Requires Additional Resources Short update cycle (perimeter, evacuation, and shelter data) required different approach to caching Proposed Solution SOC farm Web Server Shared Network Storage 13

14 Lessons Learned Network bandwidth is important For a high capacity site, network bandwidth could be the constraining factor If your server cpu and disk are near capacity, you know you have sufficient bandwidth 150KB 250KB 150KB 150KB 250KB 250KB 150KB 250KB XX Mbps? 250KB 250KB 150KB 14

15 Agenda ArcGIS Server State of California, Resources Agency Responding to the Southern California Fires Bond Accountability Program County of Santa Cruz Storm Drain run-off awareness City of Anaheim Public Access to Integrated Parcel Information Custom Desktop Application with No Deployment Headaches Disaster-Response: Supporting Building Inspection Final Thoughts 15

16 The Bond Accountability Program State of California Resources Agency Supporting Governor s s Office Eric Kauffman, GIS Analyst Application Objectives: Enhance the transparency of government bond resource spending Integrate information from several departments involved in allocating bond funds Allow information to be maintained by separate departments Leverage existing resources 16

17 A Mash-up of Webservices Seamlessly integrating content from: Local SQLServer tabular data Webservice text content from Dept. of Parks & Recreation Basemap webservices from ArcGIS Online Dynamic webservices from Resources Agency ArcGIS Server Not a map-centric application; webservices-centric. centric. 17

18 The Application SQL Server data SOAP Webservice from Parks & Recreaation 18

19 Technology Architecture Browsers Parks & Recreation Content Mgmt System Web Service Web Server Resources Agency ArcGIS Server ArcSDE/ RDBMS SQL Server ArcGIS Online 19

20 Technical Keys to Success Shared vision with Partners Partner organizations mutually supporting each other Technical Skills An accomplished.net programmer; familiarity with webservice development No ArcGIS Server training, but about 6 months hands-on to get familiar and productive with web ADF Performance Analysis The layers of application components create a more complex structure to analyze when understanding over-all performance 20

21 Lessons Learned Caching Saves Resources; Adds Performance ArcIMS Fewer load-balanced web servers Spatial Servers with lots of capacity ArcGIS Server 21

22 Agenda ArcGIS Server State of California, Resources Agency Responding to the Southern California Fires Bond Accountability Program County of Santa Cruz Storm Drain run-off awareness City of Anaheim Public Access to Integrated Parcel Information Custom Desktop Application with No Deployment Headaches Disaster-Response: Supporting Building Inspection Final Thoughts 22

23 Urban Run-off Public Awareness: Santa Cruz County of Santa Cruz Matt Price, GIS Manager Cooperating with City of Capitola Application Objectives: Further the goals of the Stormwater Management plan Public outreach, education, and involvement in prevention of polluted urban run-off Cooperation across jurisdictions 23

24 Public Outreach, Education, & Involvement Three applications in one. Storm Drain Inventory H2OFlow Water Quality We want people to connect what happens at their house to what is happening in the Bay and to be able to look and see what else is upstream. 24

25 The Application 25

26 The Process 6 months from hardware arrival to application Team Effort.Net (everyone) and ArcGIS Server training (2) Specialization and sharing knowledge Application Network analysis programming User Interface Querying database Crystal Reports Building the Network An Intern and an analyst Integrating data 26

27 Challenges 1. Meeting the deadline 2. User Interface design 3. Coordinating the team 4. Learning to use the callback architecture 5. Adapting the Web ADF template 27

28 Learning & Observations Caching is very powerful (Next step) Using ArcObjects on the web is amazing 28

29 Agenda ArcGIS Server State of California, Resources Agency Responding to the Southern California Fires Bond Accountability Program County of Santa Cruz Storm Drain run-off awareness City of Anaheim Public Access to Integrated Parcel Information Custom Desktop Application with No Deployment Headaches Disaster-Response: Supporting Building Inspection Final Thoughts 29

30 Public Access to Integrated Parcel Information City of Anaheim Reid Watkins, GIS Analyst Application Objectives: Integrate parcel-related related data from various systems Use a single system for data maintenance, query, and analysis Provide Universal Search Provide more timely information 30

31 Integrating Data All queries hit live databases Uses spatial SQL to reduce application code Integrates data from several depts; ; GIS and non-gis data Spatial queries on-the the-fly (not using a data warehouse) Provides clean, easy-to to-navigate user interface 31

32 The Application 32

33 Technology Architecture Intra ranet Browsers Inter ernet Browsers Web Server ArcGIS Server ArcSDE/ RDBMS Spatial SQL Reverse Proxy Server Other RDBMS Tidemark 33

34 Technical Keys to Success ESRI Spatial Type Fast Easy Excellent performance Simplified application Start from scratch Not using the ADF template allowed for a cleaner approach to UI design Technical Skills.Net programming knowledge has been essential 34

35 Learning and Observations ST_Geometry has allowed: Less code in the application Anticipated easier application maintenance The City still focuses on maintaining reliable performance and uptime One repository means a single point of failure for all applications The City continues to focus on how best to plan compresses, planned system downtime, and versioning performance 35

36 Agenda ArcGIS Server State of California, Resources Agency Responding to the Southern California Fires Bond Accountability Program County of Santa Cruz Storm Drain run-off awareness City of Anaheim Public Access to Integrated Parcel Information Custom Desktop Application with No Deployment Headaches Disaster-Response: Supporting Building Inspection Final Thoughts 36

37 Custom Desktop Application City of Anaheim Chris Carter, GIS Analyst Application Objectives: Provide essential planning information within the Department Maintain the familiar Arcview-based user interface Reduce application deployment hassles 37

38 Information for Planners Practically Zero Deployment Effort Desktop Application (.Net) Uses ArcGIS Server s s SOAP API Uses Microsoft s ClickOnce deployment 38

39 The Application 39

40 The Deployment Challenge and Solution To Deploy the Existing ArcView-based app Initially: Install ArcView 9.x Install custom VB6 application Infrequent Recurring Apply ArcView service packs Frequent Recurring Apply custom VB6 upgrades or uninstall/reinstalls The New design (using ClickOnce ) Make sure.net is on the machine Go to URL to initially install application 40

41 Technology Architecture Nothing but.net! ClickOnce Check for update Auto-apply update Web Server ArcGIS Server ArcSDE/ RDBMS SOAP API? Re-source 41

42 Technical Keys to Success Time & Vision A significant development effort A clear understanding of the potentials and limits of several technologies capabilities Programming Expertise.Net programming skills Knowledge of latest.net capabilities Comfort with high-levels of abstraction in design The thinnest thick application you can imagine 42

43 Learning and Observations The SOAP API is pretty easy to use This application was a lot of work 43

44 Agenda ArcGIS Server State of California, Resources Agency Responding to the Southern California Fires Bond Accountability Program County of Santa Cruz Storm Drain run-off awareness City of Anaheim Public Access to Integrated Parcel Information Custom Desktop Application with No Deployment Headaches Disaster-Response: Supporting Building Inspection Final Thoughts 44

45 Anaheim Safety Assurance Program (ASAP) City of Anaheim Chris Carter, GIS Analyst Application Objectives: Speed post-event building inspection process Improve inspection request process Speed inspection aggregation and reporting Access FEMA (and other) funds more quickly 45

46 Red- Yellow- Green- Tag Mobile Application Handles intermittent connectivity Handles long periods of no connectivity Provides city-wide functionality Web interface in EOC automatically reports live results EOC can send inspection requests to field units 46

47 The Application 47

48 Technology Architecture EOC Web Server ArcGIS Server Workgroup SDE City Hall ArcSDE/ RDBMS 48

49 Technical Keys to Success Time & Vision & Budget A major investment in disaster preparedness planning for IT and business processes A significant development effort Programming Expertise If you really know.net, the Mobile ADF all comes together easily Built while the Mobile SDK was in beta 49

50 Observations & Future Directions Cache the City at Install Enables city-wide queries to execute when disconnected Improves performance in field The Hardest Part Developing an application while the technology is in Beta Building Fail-Over Capability ArcGIS Server Tier (EOC) ArcSDE Tier (City Hall) Showing it to the inspectors and seeing the looks on their faces was great. They were blown away by it. That s good to see from non-technical users. 50

51 Agenda ArcGIS Server State of California, Resources Agency Responding to the Southern California Fires Bond Accountability Program County of Santa Cruz Storm Drain run-off awareness City of Anaheim Public Access to Integrated Parcel Information Custom Desktop Application with No Deployment Headaches Disaster-Response: Supporting Building Inspection Final Thoughts 51

52 Solving Business Needs Responding to emergencies Integrating information Providing public access Analyzing spatial relationships Enabling mobile workforces 52

53 Using Unparalleled Capabilities Rapid-application application development Leveraging 3 rd party and partner content Webservice Mash-ups Different API s s for different purposes (Web ADF, SOAP, SQL, etc.) Automatic Deployment (browser apps, ClickOnce,, etc.) Web Server ArcGIS Server ArcSDE/ RDBMS Spatial SQL ArcGIS Online 53

54 for Powerful Results! High performance applications High-end GIS functionality Clean, high-function user-interface designs Browser, mobile, and desktop applications 54

55 Resources Instructor Led Courses: Introduction to ArcGIS Server Developing Applications with ArcGIS Server (.Net / Java) Configuration and Tuning (RDBMS) At 9.3: ArcGIS Server Web Administration (.Net / Java) ArcGIS Enterprise Systems: Performance and Scalability System Architecture Design Strategies campus.esri.com/ 55

56 Resources Virtual Campus Courses: What s s New in ArcGIS Server 9.2 Authoring and Publishing Geoprocessing Services Authoring and Publishing Optimized Map Services Building Applications with ArcGIS Server (.Net / Java) Introduction to the ArcGIS Mobile SDK 56

57 Resources Professional Services: Implementation Services Rent-a-tech tech ESRI Enterprise Advantage Program Technical Support: Support Incidents Knowledge Base & Forums Project Center Web Help Blogs (Server and Mobile) ESRI Developer Network (EDN) support.esri.com/ 57

58 Thank You Danny Krouk ESRI 380 New York Street Redlands, California USA Phone: Fax: