GIS in the Cloud

Marius Burger Esri South Africa

Conference and exhibition of geo-informatics, ICT, surveying, remote sensing and location-based business

2-4 October 2012 Emperors Palace, Jones Road, Kempton Park

Presentation Outline

• What is Cloud Computing?

• Cloud Computing Models

• Benefits

• Risks

• GIS in the Cloud – ArcGIS Online

What is Cloud Computing?

• Computing capabilities maintained off premise

• Pay per use

• Scalable and elastic

• Virtualisation

Cloud Computing Models

• End user application delivered as a service

Software as a Service (SaaS)

• Middleware or application platform

• Developer API’s & Tools

• Database and Business Processes

• Build & Run applications on cloud vendors infrastructure

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

• Computing power

• Storage

• Operating Systems

• On Demand services

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Benefits

Pay per use Reduce risk of paying for unused resources

Improved time to market Competitive advantage

Increased prototyping Faster output of Proof of concepts

“Elastic” Provisioning Meet unpredictable or erratic demand

Renting assets only when needed Shift from CAPEX to OPEX

Risks

Security & Privacy

• Data Storage & Transfer

• Data Privacy

• Application Security

Legal

Availability

Presentation Outline

• What is Cloud Computing?

• Cloud Computing Models

• Benefits

• Risks

• GIS in the Cloud – ArcGIS Online

ArcGIS Online

• Software as a Service

• Ready to use

Ready to use Content

ArcGIS Online

Security and Data ownership

• Personal or Organisations

• Public or Private Portal

Benefits

• Create and share maps and data

• Access through web browser, mobile devices or applications

Content Management

• Easy creation & publication of web maps

• Web Service mash ups

• Create web maps without programming

Content Publishing

• Free mobile applications

• Find maps & applications

• Identify, Query, search, collect, edit and update attributes

Work Anywhere

Benefits

• Data driven dashboards, e.g. Microsoft Share Point

• Reports with maps, charts and graphs

Executive Access

• Publish private and Public web maps Public Access

• Securely register and share online content and web services

• Share content with specific groups

Catalog & Data discovery

Benefits

• Library of hosted content

• Upload your own spatial data and create web services

Hosted web services

• Online templates

• Develop customised applications with ArcGIS API’s

User generated web

applications

• Basemaps Online Services

ArcGIS Online

ArcGIS Online expands the reach of Geographic Information

Thank you!

Conference and exhibition of geo-informatics, ICT, surveying, remote sensing and location-based business

2-4 October 2012 Emperors Palace, Jones Road, Kempton Park