ArcGIS Mapping for SharePoint

ArcGIS Mapping for SharePoint 2.0

The boxed solution is intended for information display on cards and uses of the GIS functions in Microsoft SharePoint – standard office environment of file sharing and the Web publication.

The open expanded platform for embedding of the GIS functions in corporate Web applications. It considerably increases possibilities of standard office Microsoft SharePoint platform on work with the space data which are stored on the internal and public ArcGIS servers and geoinformation resources. So, users directly in the SharePoint system can easily create and visually display interactive maps and also share them in business processes of the enterprise. Besides, software of ArcGIS Mapping for SharePoint 2.0 allows to carry out the profound analysis of space data with the help of the services of geoprocessing provided by the ArcGIS servers and web services. And expanded functions of geocoding accelerate business interaction (workflow) due to automation of such typical transactions as, for example, search of an object (the enterprises, the locality, etc.) or updating of the card during creation or change of the relevant information in a corporate DB. At the same time the solution of these tasks does not require programming.

An opportunity to quickly plot diverse data, to look at corporate information from the uniform point of view, to select an optimal variant of visualization, quicker and to better reveal and realize patterns – all this opens exclusive opportunities and for improvement of information support of decision making, and for increase in productivity of separate transactions and the enterprise in general. By estimates of specialists, not less than 80% of the data used in modern business have a space binding. For this reason serious advantages of integration of the GIS functions on office Wednesday are got not only by professional analysts, but also management of the enterprise and also most of specialists: staff of sales departments, marketing specialist, logistics; production divisions, customer services, etc.

The basis of the solution ArcGIS Mapping for SharePoint 2.0 is formed by three key elements widgets (Web parts). The widget of ArcGIS Map Part is responsible for display on interactive maps of tabular data of SharePoint and also space data, a cartographic substrate, space - and the aerial photographs received from the ArcGIS servers and Internet services (in particular, ArcGIS Online and Bing Maps).

The second element – ArcGIS Location Map Field – allows to add to tables of SharePoint of a column where the location of objects on the card is displayed. At last, ArcGIS Geocoding Workflow provides space processing of the addresses which are contained in data of SharePoint. Let's note openness of the solution ArcGIS Mapping for SharePoint 2.0. Using ArcGIS API application programming interface for the Silverlight platform, developers can create own widgets which are responsible for geoinformation calculations, data analysis, information display and user interaction.