ArcGIS Server Road Ahead

Here are some of my notes from a Road Ahead session on ArcGIS Server today.

As for distributed Web GIS:

Consider it a “portal of portals”
Sharing GIS content across Portals. Think of it as many different departments in your organization that share Web GIS content between their own ArcGIS Portal installations. Shared through groups
Also share with other outside Portals, like with your neighboring cities and county/state governments

As for GeoAnalytics Server:

Both spatial and temporal analytics
A new way of processing spatiotemporal data
New processing tools
You will be able to interact with tools in Pro (from Portal) or in Portal itself

As for Raster Analytics at 10.5:

For processing pixels and image processing
New way to execute spatial analysis models which leverages distributed computing
Can optimize your data for distributed analytics
Designed to scale with your organization’s demands (1 server to multiple processing servers)
Run models against data that is too big for a single desktop
Can use Pro, Portal UX, or developers using REST
End result is a new GIS layer, which means it is automatically published for you

As for ArcGIS Python API:

New API for your Web GIS, online or on-premises
Interactive browser based Python console for scripting online
You create a GIS object in Python, gis = GIS()
You then can access: gis.content, gis.datastore, gis.groups, gis.maps, gis.tools, gis.properties, gis.users, etc. (all the things you would normally do in the online or Portal interface)
Right now in beta: https://developers.arcgis.com/python/
You place the API package on your system

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