Abstract

Employing an Application Framework Approach for EGIS Success
Track: Application Development
Authors: Jeff Siegel, Michael Benedict, Sara Hackbarth

In an effort to improve organizational efficiency and bring added value to the way Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) conducts business, the MMSD has taken on a significant enterprise GIS implementation.
In order to emphasize the true enterprise nature of the vision, the MMSD took a three-phased approach in its implementation. In Phase I, the survey and analysis implementation phase, specific methods were used to identify application requirement/ design issues in context to maximizing return-on-investment. The result was defining common sets of requirements among planned business applications that became the "application framework".
This approach, as followed through in the subsequent implementation phase, has produced a modular and efficient design of a suite of ArcGIS Server-based business applications. This approach has produced programmatic benefits at all levels - administration, user and system. This session will highlight the overall approach and results to provide help in thinking through enterprise application design methods.