Installations and Environment—Enterprise GIS Capabilities
CAD/GIS Integration
Common Installation Picture, MacDill AFB
CAD applications and data play critical roles in base operations and construction. As you enter the maintenance phase, GIS and its ability to integrate with maintenance management packages provide you with the tools to efficiently plan and maintain facilities.
Work Order Tracking
The integration of CAD data into a GIS–based common installation picture is a key aspect of the GIS support for managing the installation. The ArcGIS platform supports CAD integration at several levels by giving you access to several CAD–specific geoprocessing tools. Native CAD files can be directly read into the ArcGIS environment and imported into the geodatabase, then distributed through a browser or a thick client.
Enterprise Technology Integration
Facilities and Utilities Management
The effective management of an installation involves the application of several
enterprise information systems such as CRM, ERP, WFM, and GIS. ArcGIS is an
enterprise platform that integrates with these other enterprise capabilities to
provide spatial context and geoprocessing capabilities to any application that may
require it. ArcGIS is fully integrated with DBMS technology that offers
A distributed, extensible DBMS to manage the organization’s spatial and other
data holdings
An open GIS gateway that works directly with data management solutions provided by different DBMS vendors
A standards-based approach for managing GIS data in a DBMS that is consistent
throughout the IT community
A way to effi ciently serve GIS datasets to a large number of distributed users on
the desktop, network, and Internet
GIS spatial infrastructure built on an existing DBMS, adding spatially enabled
storage, processing, and visualization
