Building a GIS: System Architecture Design Strategies for Managers

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Planning ahead before investing in geographic information system (GIS) software and hardware saves money and reduces risk. Testing virtual system configurations and using the performance models provided in Building a GIS: System Architecture Design Strategies for Managers will increase the likelihood that the GIS implementation will be a success for the organization.

Geared toward the same readership as that of Roger Tomlinson’s classic, Thinking About GIS: Geographic Information System Planning for Managers, Peters’ Building a GIS is the next in a growing series of books from ESRI Press to stress the fundamentals of successful GIS planning. A book everyone on the team (CEOs, information technology [IT] professionals, and GIS specialists alike) can easily follow, this book describes a scientific approach to IT infrastructure design for a GIS. Building a GIS details the basics to help planners take advantage of the latest technology through improved Web mapping services software, dual-core socket server performance and scalability, and search engine architecture improvements.

A pilot-turned-physicist and now systems consultant, Dave Peters joined ESRI as manager of the Systems Integration Department responsible for turnkey system deployments. For more than 20 years, he has worked at ESRI, helping customers, colleagues, and test teams develop a hardware/software selection and implementation model that works for even the largest enterprise GIS deployments. He established ESRI System Design Consulting Services in 1992 and authored the white paper “System Design Strategies.” In addition, he developed the ESRI training class System Architecture Design Strategies.