System Architecture Design Strategies

Note: Only a few places remain on this training course

Overview (3 day course)
This course provides an overview of GIS infrastructure architecture alternatives and system architecture design strategies required to support successful enterprise operations. You will learn comprehensive guidelines for planning and selecting the right system architecture to support your deployment needs. This course also covers unique performance validation and system capacity planning techniques used to support productive operations.  Registration for this course can be arranged via the OZRI / APUC 2010 online registration form.

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Who should attend?
This course is designed for senior architecture consultants and software technical architects who will benefit from the GIS design methodology presented. GIS managers and programmers who need to understand system architecture and hardware capacity planning criteria, and system administrators who need to understand and identify performance problems with existing GIS environments will also benefit.

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Goals
After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Understand the system architecture design planning process
• Describe architecture alternatives for deploying enterprise GIS operations
• Develop a target enterprise hardware design to support capacity planning needs

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Topics Covered

• System design strategies
• GIS software solutions
• Network communications
• GIS product architecture
• GIS user needs

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Prerequisites
Review the ESRI technical reference document titled "System Design Strategies".
Please note, this is a large file and may take some time to download.

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Course Instructor
Dave Peters joined ESRI as manager of the systems integration department, responsible for turnkey system deployments. For more than 20 years, he has worked at ESRI, helping customers, colleagues, and test teams develop a hardware/software selection and implementation model that works for even the largest enterprise GIS deployments.  Listen to the podcast below where Dave discusses his book Building a GIS, and the methodology behind building an infrastructure to successfully support a GIS.

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Terms & Conditions
Registration for this 3 day training course is limited, with only a few places remaining.  The training course is being held within walking distance of the conference venue.  Minimum numbers are required for this course to run, so do not book your travel or accommodation until you have received confirmation that the course will be run.  Payment for the training course will not be taken until the course has been confirmed.  Registration for this course can be arranged via the OZRI / APUC 2010 online registration form.

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