Abstract

Coming Full Circle: A Retrospective of the NEORSD Enterprise GIS
Track: Implementing Enterprise GIS
Authors: Monica Day

'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it' - George Santayana. That is a common phrase that most of us hear in our life time. It is unfortunately true. The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District's GIS Department has learned this lesson more than once. Join us as we take a journey through the GIS life cycle as we discuss the lessons learned during the evolution of GIS at the District. We'll discuss our move from ArcIMS to ArcGIS Server 9.x ending with our current ArcGIS Server 10 configuration and the trials with each move. We will highlight what we missed about IMS and how we circled back to a more streamlined deployment. More importantly we will discuss what we have learned along away so others may not repeat our history.