Abstract

Saudi Aramco Corporate GIS Application Portal Implementation
Track: Implementing Enterprise GIS
Authors: Adel Marghalani, Faisal Alhammad, Lafi Alharbi, Fawaz Patta

In line with Saudi Aramco corporate objective to maximize the profitability by optimizing applications and infrastructure portfolio, IT/eMap has decided to develop a GIS Application Portal that will encapsulate and disseminate GIS functions such as spatial analysis, map visualization and geospatial capabilities to end users. This will replace the existing scattered 12 applications 'viewers' into a single portal using "widgets on top of ESRI ArcGIS 10.

The concept is to create custom Flex Viewer application that doesn't require redeploying whenever a widget is added/modified/removed. The design principle was based on MVCS model which was extended using Spring framework, REST and RemoteObject. This will bring a paradigm shift to the developers where they code & deploy custom functionalities instead of developing full-fledged application.

By continuing using a component based model "widgets, resulting in more adaptable, flexible and open IT architecture for developing services-based, enterprise scale business solutions.