The Enterprise GIS Initiative at the City of Calgary

Author: Bob Eason
Organization: City of Calgary

PO Box 2100, Station M
Calgary, T2P 2M5
Alberta, Canada

Phone: 403-268-4470
Fax: 403-268-8120
bob.eason@gov.calgary.ab.ca

The City of Calgary adopted an enterprise approach to implementing GIS in the early 1990s. These early corporate GIS initiatives lost momentum in the late 1990s. In 1998 a corporate information technology review recommended that the credibility of the GIS initiative be restored and that alternative GIS products be investigated in order to provide solutions to clients. In April 1999, the City of Calgary selected the Esri suite of software and tools to support the revitalized GIS initiative. This presentation will describe Calgary's approach to implementing Esri technology, including SDE, for our enterprise GIS.