The Presentation Given By Marius Burger of Esri South Africa at the recent GISSA Ukubuzana Conference Speaking on the topic of GIS in the cloud

1. Conference and exhibition of geo-informatics, ICT, surveying, remote sensing and location-based business
2-4 October 2012
Emperors Palace, Jones Road, Kempton Park
GIS in the Cloud
Marius Burger
Esri South Africa

2. Presentation Outline
• What is Cloud Computing?
• Cloud Computing Models
• Benefits
• Risks
• GIS in the Cloud – ArcGIS Online

3. What is Cloud Computing?
• Computing capabilities maintained off premise
• Pay per use
• Scalable and elastic
• Virtualisation

4. Cloud Computing Models
Software as a Service (SaaS)
• End user application delivered as a service
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
• Middleware or application platform
• Developer API’s & Tools
• Database and Business Processes
• Build & Run applications on cloud vendors infrastructure
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
• Computing power
• Storage
• Operating Systems
• On Demand services

5. Benefits
Pay per use Reduce risk of paying for unused resources
Improved time to market Competitive advantage
Increased prototyping Faster output of Proof of concepts
“Elastic” Provisioning Meet unpredictable or erratic demand
Renting assets only when needed Shift from CAPEX to OPEX

6. Risks
Security & Privacy
• Data Storage & Transfer
• Data Privacy
• Application Security
Legal
Availability

7. Presentation Outline
• What is Cloud Computing?
• Cloud Computing Models
• Benefits
• Risks
• GIS in the Cloud – ArcGIS Online

8. ArcGIS Online
• Software as a Service
• Ready to use
Ready to use Content

9. ArcGIS Online
Security and Data ownership
• Personal or Organisations
• Public or Private Portal

10. Benefits
Content • Create and share maps and data
• Access through web browser, mobile
Management devices or applications
• Easy creation & publication of web maps
Content • Web Service mash ups
Publishing • Create web maps without programming
• Free mobile applications
Work • Find maps & applications
Anywhere • Identify, Query, search, collect, edit and
update attributes

11. Benefits
Executive • Data driven dashboards, e.g. Microsoft
Share Point
Access • Reports with maps, charts and graphs
Public Access • Publish private and Public web maps
Catalog & • Securely register and share online content
and web services
Data discovery • Share content with specific groups

12. Benefits
Hosted web • Library of hosted content
• Upload your own spatial data and create
services web services
User generated • Online templates
web • Develop customised applications with
ArcGIS API’s
applications
Online Services • Basemaps

13. ArcGIS Online
ArcGIS Online expands the reach of Geographic
Information

14. Conference and exhibition of geo-informatics, ICT, surveying, remote sensing and location-based business
2-4 October 2012
Emperors Palace, Jones Road, Kempton Park
Thank you!