Editing Esri (section)

=== 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}}