"The ArcGIS platform enables us to be more competitive in areas that would have been cost prohibitive such as server application development."

Jim Tochterman
Vice President of Research and Development
Bradshaw Consulting Services

The ArcGIS platform enables you to focus on solving business problems with APIs and tools designed to deliver GIS functionality to your applications. Software developers who use the ArcGIS platform can

• Work with a variety of programming languages, standards, and tools.
• Deploy GIS applications on a variety of platforms.
• Access GIS Web services using REST or SOAP.
• Take advantage of the resources that ESRI provides to help software developers design and build useful GIS applications.

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