Abstract

Expanding the Enterprise GIS for Greater User Community Functionality
Track: Mining and Geosciences
Authors: Chris Franks

Freeport has extensive property interests, both active and inactive on multiple continents across the globe. In 2010, Freeport launched an Enterprise web based GIS platform to its user community. In response to a number of internal requests, Freeport's Corporate GIS team and consultant GeoEngineers worked to plan, develop and implement into the platform a number of tools to better expand the functionality of the site to a broader group of internal stakeholders. An enterprise GIS database and technology framework utilizing Esri's ArcGIS Server were enhanced along with the development of new tools specifically designed to integrate into existing data repositories and warehouses to minimize disruption to existing business processes and maximize the graphical display of what was previously non centralized information.