ESRI publishes the world's first GIS platform to support cloud architecture

The world's leading Geographic Information system (GIS) platform software and service provider ESRI Company has released a landmark new product--arcgis 10, the world's first truly supporting cloud architecture of the GIS platform products.

In the emphasis on service-centric cloud era, the release of this product provides the Platform foundation for Cloud GIS to provide spatial information management, geographic analysis method and flexible system architecture.

"ArcGIS 10 's release is of great significance for cloud-era IT applications, and in general, ArcGIS 10 has achieved five leaps, that is, in collaboration with GIS, three-dimensional GIS, cloud GIS, integrated GIS, GIS, space and time in five areas to achieve a substantial leap." "said Cai, vice president and chief consulting expert at ESRI.

What are the new features of this ArcGIS 10 product? ESRI gives an example of this:

One of the new features of the new product line is achieved through the company's web-based online Business Analytics (BAO) tool. When you open the new iphone app, it can accurately show the population, average age, and income levels of nearby neighbourhoods, and this application can also show the percentage of post-secondary education in these populations, the home ownership ratio, and even the amount of shopping spent in the region. The application now supports Windows Mobile and Apple's iOS system, including support for terminal devices such as Iphone,itouch and ipads. Soon, the app will also support Google's mobile terminal Android system, which is an important step in ESRI's broad support for GIS applications for all kinds of terminals, including mobile terminals.

By using this utility, Chris Cameron, a iphone user in the United States, looked at the population of more than 15000 people in his neighbourhood, with an average age of 35 years and an average income of more than 100,000 dollars, a figure that exceeded the American average. The data can also be compared with residential areas in other parts of the United States. The "Smart map" function of this application can be annotated and divided on the map according to different search conditions, such as: the income level of the population, age range and so on.

As the world's first truly cloud-enabled GIS platform, ArcGIS 10 can be deployed directly on cloud computing platforms to cloud the management, analysis, and processing of spatial data. Cai said that with the full popularity of the Internet and the general improvement of network performance, user demand for Web services is becoming more and more urgent, while increasingly rich Web services also spawned the cloud era of the demand for Yu Yun GIS, cloud computing environment in the GIS platform. Currently, the application of ArcGIS 10 has been successfully implemented on Amazon's cloud computing platform.