Portal for ArcGIS

Allen County’s Experience

Dave Estes - GIS CoordinatorAllen County

200 E Berry Street, Ste. 415Fort Wayne, IN 46802

260.449.3608dave.estes@allencounty.us

Portal for ArcGIS

What is Portal for ArcGIS? Why consider Portal for ArcGIS? How to implement Where we are… Where we want to go… Demonstration(s)

What is Portal for ArcGIS?

The ESRI Portal for ArcGIS software is the software that creates an ArcGIS Online functionality within the customer’s environment.

Why consider Portal for ArcGIS?

Share and Collaborate Web/Mobile Device Compatibililty Ease of use by “non-GIS” staff Part of Allen County’s ELA

How to Implement Portal for ArcGIS

Highly recommend Portal as part of an ELA

Virtualized Server Architecture ESRI did the actual installation* Train departments on how to use

Where we are…

We are at the beginning…

Where we are..

ELA began in January 2013 Server virtualization completed

February 2013 Portal for ArcGIS installed by ESRI

March 2013 GIS Visioning Workshop March 19th

& 20th – Stakeholder buy-in

Where we are…

Creating basemaps and learning how to create applications

Demonstrating workflows to incorporate Portal maps into presentations and web pages

Where we want to go…

High percentage of internal departments using Portal to share data and collaborate on projects

Non-GIS staff collecting data and creating maps as part of their workflow

Where we want to go…

Implement GIS functions on mobile devices Field Mapping Analytics Data collection

Create applications to serve the public

Demonstration

Questions?

Dave Estes - GIS CoordinatorAllen County200 E Berry Street, Ste. 415Fort Wayne, IN 46802260.449.3608dave.estes@allencounty.us

Thank You!