GIS Community

ESRI users are a community of GIS practitioners and business partners; they share data, technology standards, and often the knowledge of building a GIS. The key ingredients of a successful enterprise GIS include

• Strong GIS people
• A community of users who focus the system on real information
• Development of standard data sets and use of a common architecture
• Policies for data sharing

ESRI works closely with the GIS community to understand the data needs and functional requirements of a GIS. Some examples of this collaboration include

• GIS Standards and Interoperability
• ArcGIS Data Models

Every year more than 10,000 GIS practitioners participate in the ESRI International User Conference.