Editing Esri (section)

== Products ==
{{Main|ArcGIS}}
Esri uses the name [[ArcGIS]] to refer to its suite of GIS software products, which operate on desktop, server, and mobile platforms. ArcGIS also includes developer products and web services. In a general sense, the term GIS describes any [[Information systems|information system]] that integrates, stores, edits, analyzes, shares and displays [[georeference|geographic]] information for informing [[decision making]]. The term GIS-Centric, however, has been specifically defined as the use of the Esri ArcGIS geodatabase as the asset and feature data repository central to [[computerized maintenance management system]]s (CMMS) as a part of [[enterprise asset management]] and analytical software systems. GIS-centric certification criteria have been specifically defined by NAGCS, the National Association of GIS-Centric Solutions.{{Citation needed|date=April 2024}}

=== Desktop GIS ===
As of October 2024, the company's desktop GIS suite is ArcGIS Pro 3.3.2, with the older [[ArcGIS]] Desktop (or ArcMap) version 10.8.2 in [https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-desktop/announcements/arcmap-enters-mature-support-in-march-2024/ mature support] (to be fully retired in March of 2026). The older ArcGIS Desktop consisted of several integrated applications, including [[ArcMap]], [[ArcCatalog]], ArcToolbox, ArcScene, and ArcGlobe. Esri's main desktop, or thick client, application is ArcGIS Pro which is slowly replacing the former main components of ArcGIS Desktop: [[ArcMap]], [[ArcCatalog]] and ArcToolbox. Esri's desktop products allow users to author, analyze, map, manage, share, and publish geographic information.

[[ArcGIS Pro]] was introduced in early 2015 as a modern and fully 64-bit application with integrated 2D and 3D functionality.<ref>{{cite web |title=ArcGIS Pro – Reinventing Desktop GIS |date=27 January 2015 |url=https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/3d-gis/3d-gis/arcgis-pro-reinventing-desktop-gis/ |access-date=22 April 2019}}</ref> The product suite is available in three levels of licensing:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgis-for-desktop/pricing |title=Buy ArcGIS for Desktop |website=Esri.com |access-date=2016-07-25}}</ref> Basic (formerly called [[ArcView]]), Standard (formerly called [[ArcEditor]]) and Advanced (formerly called [[ArcInfo]]). Basic provides a basic set of GIS capabilities suitable for many GIS applications. Standard, at added cost, allows more extensive data editing and manipulation, including server [[geodatabase]] editing.  Advanced, at the high end, provides full, advanced analysis and data management capabilities, including [[geostatistics|geostatistical]] and [[Geospatial topology|topological]] analysis tools. Additionally, ArcGIS is compatible with following [[Open_Geospatial_Consortium#Standards|OGC standards]]: WFS, WCS, GFS and various others.{{Citation needed|date=April 2024}}

[[ArcGIS Explorer]], ArcReader, and [[ArcExplorer]] are basic [[freeware]] applications for viewing GIS data.{{Citation needed|date=April 2024}}

ArcGIS Desktop extensions are available, including Spatial Analyst for raster analysis, and 3D Analyst for terrain mapping and analysis.  Other more specialized extensions are available from Esri and third parties.{{Citation needed|date=April 2024}}

Esri's original product, [[ArcInfo|ARC/INFO]], was a command line GIS product available initially on minicomputers, then on UNIX workstations. In 1992, a GUI GIS, [[ArcView 3.x|ArcView GIS]], was introduced. Over time, both products were offered in Windows versions, and ArcView also as a [[Apple Macintosh|Macintosh]] product. The names ArcView and ArcInfo were used for a while to name different levels of licensing in ArcGIS Desktop, and less often refer to these original software products. The Windows version of ArcGIS is now the only ArcGIS Desktop platform that is undergoing new development for future product releases.{{Citation needed|date=April 2024}}

=== Server GIS ===
Server GIS products provide GIS functionality and data deployed from a central environment. [[ArcGIS Server]] is an Internet application service, used to extend the functionality of ArcGIS Desktop software to a browser based environment. It is available on Solaris and Linux as well as Windows. [[ArcSDE]] (Spatial Database Engine) is used as a [[Relational database management system|relational database]] connector for other Esri software to store and retrieve GIS data within a commercially available database: currently, it can be used with Oracle, [[PostgreSQL]], DB2, Informix and Microsoft SQL Server databases. It supports its native SDE binary data format, [[Oracle Spatial]], and ST_geometry.
[[ArcIMS]] (Internet Mapping Server) provides browser-based access to GIS. As of ArcGIS 10.1, ArcIMS has been deprecated in favor of ArcGIS Server, but there are still many instances of ArcIMS (10.0 and older) in production environments.
Other server-based products include Geoportal Server, ArcGIS Image Server and Tracking Server as well as several others.{{Citation needed|date=April 2024}}

=== Mobile GIS ===
Mobile GIS conflates GIS, GPS, [[location-based service]]s, hand-held computing, and the growing availability of geographic data. ArcGIS technology can be deployed on a range of mobile systems from lightweight devices to PDAs, laptops, and Tablet PCs. The firm's products for this use include Collector for ArcGIS, Survey123 for ArcGIS, ArcGIS QuickCapture and more. Former products and applications in this category included [[ArcPad]] and ArcGIS for Mobile.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.webmapsolutions.com|title=Mobile GIS App Development|publisher=WebMapSolutions|url-status=dead|access-date=29 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120424191248/http://www.webmapsolutions.com/|archive-date=24 April 2012}}</ref>

===Online GIS (ArcGIS Online)===
ArcGIS includes Internet capabilities in all Esri software products. The services, provided through ArcGIS Online at www.arcgis.com, include web APIs, hosted map and [[Geographic information system|geoprocessing]] services, and a user sharing program. A variety of basemaps is a signature feature of ArcGIS Online. The Esri Community Maps program compiles detailed user basemap information into a common [[Cartography|cartographic]] format called Topographic Basemap.<ref>{{cite web|title=Free Mobile app for ArcGIS Online|url=http://www.webmapsolutions.com/arcgisonline|publisher=WebMapSolutions|access-date=16 July 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130209095417/http://www.webmapsolutions.com/arcgisonline|archive-date=9 February 2013}}</ref>