ArcGIS Enterprise provides the enterprise-level capabilities of ESRI's ArcGIS software suite. It enables central management of GIS assets, powers the enterprise GIS with web services, offers support for real-time GIS, easy sharing of imagery, provides access to spatial data in databases, extends the reach of GIS capabilities using client apps, and integrates GIS with existing IT infrastructure. The LSA Research Computing and Infrastructure ArcGIS Enterprise Service provides members of the LSA community with access to ArcGIS Enterprise capabilities, without having to acquire, operate, and maintain their own server infrastructure. Additionally, the LSA Research Computing and Infrastructure ArcGIS server is integrated with campus single-sign-on solutions.

Below are some examples of how ArcGIS Enterprise capabilities can be utilized. We also encourage you to contact us to discuss how you can best leverage ArcGIS Enterprise in your research and teaching by emailing LSATechnologyServices@umich.edu.

• Ensure everyone is working with the same data — Enterprise geodatabases allow you to manage the distribution, replication, versioning, and archiving of data. Your team will always be accessing the right data from their web, mobile, or desktop GIS environment. No more passing around and struggling to keep track of multiple copies of your data among collaborators.

• Work with larger data sets — Enterprise geodatabases enable you to move beyond the size and performance limitations of desktop-oriented GIS storage formats.

• Preserve a snapshots of your data — At milestones, like publication or the start of a field day, you can create an archived snapshot of your data, which will allow you to always have access to a copy of your data as it was at that point time.

• Tag and manage versions of your data — At any point in time you can tag and branch versions of your data, so that you can try something out without messing up your original data, or to provide field workers with the subset of data they need for their activities that day. Later, you can review and merge changes in those versions back to the original data set.

• Work with your data in the field — Native and web apps for smartphones and tablets, such as Collector for ArcGIS and Survey123 for ArcGIS, allow you to collect, view, and analyze data in the field. Many of these apps support off-line access, so that you can use their capabilities even when you don't have a connection to the Internet, and then latter sync any changes when you do.

• Publish data sets, maps, and geoprocessing tools as web services — You can share your data, maps, and tools via a variety of web services using ArcGIS Enterprise, such as WCS, WMS, WFS, KML, etc. This allows you and others to easily share and incorporate your work into other maps and applications, such as ArcGIS Online or Google Maps.

• Tackle complex, computationally-intensive geoprocessing tasks — Use server resources to preform advanced GIS analysis, which may take too long using your desktop resources.

• Geocoding​ — Utilize Esri's Business Analyst US and Canada geocode data to convert your addresses to locations, or create your own geocoder for other areas of the world.