An enterprise GIS provides broad access to geospatial data and applications throughout an organisation. The advantages to deploying an enterprise GIS include:

• Having a common infrastructure on which to build and deploy GIS solutions
• Extending geospatial capabilities to nontraditional users of GIS
• Improving capabilities of other enterprise systems by leveraging the value of location-based information
• Increasing overall operating efficiency through the more effective and consistent use of GIS across an organisation

With an enterprise GIS, your GIS experts maintain control of the information and applications, yet productivity skyrockets as more users have access to location intelligence. Geospatial information can also be integrated with other enterprise applications to enable executive analysis and decision-support systems.

Enterprise GIS Framework
An enterprise GIS is the framework for improved business workflows by applying location intelligence to relate legacy and new information for better decision making, delivering greater efficiency with money, time, and resources, and more effective communication.

• Scalable, extensible, reliable, and secure
• Open, interoperable, and standards based
• Capable of being effectively integrated within the enterprise
• May be complex to implement - Requires significant planning and support
• Delivers a high return on investment

An enterprise GIS enables organisations to share maps and data among users and across departments, from a single user to thousands of users, while conforming to existing systems and environments.

Achieve Your Business Objectives
Organisations worldwide are using location intelligence to manage mission-critical operations and maximise return on investment (ROI) for new and legacy systems.  An enterprise GIS solution provides:

• Robust, integrated GIS applications that meet mission-critical needs
• Significant increases in productivity and overall effectiveness
• More timely access to better information
• Reduced data redundancy with higher levels of integrity and accuracy
• More effective use of departmental GIS skills and resources

Getting Started with Enterprise GIS
The key to maximising the benefits from a Geographic Information Sytem is to deploy it enterprise-wide. Some good questions to start with are the following:

• Are a solid business plan and associated strategies well defined and understood?
• Is there a clear understanding of the broad user objectives driving the project?
• Are the workflow and related business processes effective and well designed?
• Are the business stakeholders engaged and supportive?

Proper planning enables success with a faster return on your investment while meeting the original business objectives and needs of your stakeholders, customers, employees, and community.

Contact ESRI Australia today to find out how you too can benefit from enterprise GIS.

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