Abstract

Leveraging ArcGIS Server Technology - A Local Government Enterprise Approach
Track: State and Local Government
Authors: Virginia Johnston, Susan O'Neill

New Web technology can be challenging to implement, especially for local governments. With numerous Departments dependant on Web services for daily business workflows and diverse applications that need to be integrated with the enterprise GIS, change does not come easy. Virginia Beach has leveraged ArcGIS Server to deliver citizen services as well as serve the needs of customers within the organization. In addition to the technical hurdles such as API choices, caching challenges, and database development, delivering the best strategic value requires balancing the sometimes competing needs of data maintenance and web publishing, data security and web accessibility, manageability and scalability, all within the current local government environment of limited resources. ArcGIS web technology provides the City of Virginia Beach with the tools to juggle these demands.