The document provides a roadmap for the ArcGIS platform in 2014. It outlines Esri's commitment to continued development of the platform with regular updates. The roadmap details planned releases for apps like ArcGIS Pro, Collector, and ArcGIS Online. It discusses drivers like user needs, technology advances, and enterprise readiness. Long term themes are also outlined around 3D capabilities, usability improvements, performance, and offline functionality. The vision is to develop a comprehensive online and offline GIS platform to help businesses solve problems using geographic approaches.

2. Eamonn Doyle
ArcGIS Platform Roadmap 2014

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4. Overview
 The ArcGIS platform and commitment
 ArcGIS development drivers
 Approach to release schedules
 Scheduled releases
 Long term roadmap
 Vision

5. The ArcGIS Platform and Commitment
 The ArcGIS platform is a complete system for designing and managing
solutions using geographic knowledge. It allows you to perform deep
analysis, gain a greater understanding of your data, and make more
informed decisions.
 Esri are committed to the continued development of the ArcGIS platform.
We seek to advance GIS functionality and encourage individuals in many
fields to share, connect, and integrate efforts to manage our world.
 The ArcGIS platform aims to deliver updates three times a year. With every
ArcGIS update, we incorporate fixes but also enhancements and even new
features and concepts.
 A robust Product Life Cycle Support Policy is utilised to help communicate
to Esri users the technical support resources available during a product's
life span.
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6. The ArcGIS Platform
Applications
API SDKAPI’s and Device SDK’s
PORTAL AGOL
Application and
Content Management
GLOBAL LOCAL CLOUD PREMISE
Content Infrastructure

7. The ArcGIS Platform

8. Development drivers
1. End users
 Ideas.esri.com
 Existing user base
 User groups
2. GIS understanding
 Improve spatial science
 Proliferate spatial literacy
 Build GIS community
3. Technology advances
 Maximise improvements in
technology platforms
 Keep abreast with computing and
information management changes
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4. Enterprise readiness
 Cloud support
 Integration and interoperability
 Standards support
 Scalability and security
5. GIS ubiquity
 Open up GIS to everyone
 Develop GIS as a universal platform
 Make geographic information
pervasive
 Open standards
6. System unification
 Integrated, cohesive product set

9. Release schedules
 The ArcGIS Platform is updated on a regular basis, typically three
system releases per year
 Releases are staggered across products
 Current and planned up coming releases:
 Q1 2014 10.2.1
 Q1/Q2 2014 10.2.2
 Q3 2014 10.3
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10. Release schedules
 The ArcGIS Platform is updated on a regular basis, typically three
system releases per year
 Releases are staggered across products
 Current and planned up coming releases:
 Q1 2014 10.2.1
 Q1/Q2 2014 10.2.2
 Q3 2014 10.3
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11. Product Lifecycle
 The life cycle of Esri's software products, online services, and data
products has four phases:
 General Support
 Extended Support
 Mature Support
 Retired
 For further info see http://support.esri.com/en/content/productlifecycles
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12. Roadmap: Apps

13. Roadmap: ArcGIS Pro
 New “professional desktop”
App
 64 bit, multi-threaded high
performance design
 Integrated 2D/3D
 Web Services architecture
 Virtualisation Ready
 3D Editing
 CityEngine Integration
 New graphics pipeline (Direct X,
Open GL4.4)
 New “Ribbon Interface”
 Python 3 included
 .NET SDK
 Licenced with ArcGIS for Desktop
 Named User Model
 Public Beta Q2
 Q3/4 Release
 Future
 Facilities Network
 Topologies
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14. Roadmap: WebApp Builder
 New JS based Builder & Viewer Templates
 March/April Public Beta
 Mid-summer Release
 Future
 Q3 3D Support
 Additional Widgets
 Additional Themes
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15. Current: Collector 10.2.2
 Android and iOS (Phone & Tablet)
 Offline field data collection
 View and edit data
 Operational layers (Hosted and on-premises)
 Basemaps (Esri and customer)
 Measure distances and areas
 View popups and media
 Collect and update features
 Synchronize changes between field and office
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16. Roadmap: Collector
 Sometimes connected to support continued map use regardless of
connectivity
 More tools for planning offline field operations
 Pre-planned workflows
 Smarter data collection forms, related tables
 Ability to search data, pre-defined queries
 Data collection with offsets
 Ad-hoc collection support
 Integration of peripherals (laser range finders, barcode scanners,
etc.)
 Offline routing and geocoding
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17. Current: Operations Dashboard 10.2.2
 HTML5 Viewer
 Author in Desktop View in Browser
 Support for Dynamic Map Services
 Additional Selection Methods
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18. Roadmap: Operations Dashboard
 New, unified extensibility framework for developers, partners
 Standalone and Related Tables to power widgets
 Spatial filtering of operation view (extent, map selection)
 Spatial Selection tools (Buffer, Drive Time)
 Sketching and Sharing the map
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19. Roadmap: Explorer for ArcGIS
 New App - Tablet Target
 Discover, search, explore and use data
 Share and collaborate
 Brief stakeholders
 Intuitive user experience
 No GIS experience required
 Future
 Android, Mac, Windows
 Web Map editing/creation
 Time Awareness
 Offline Support
 3D, Directions, Analysis
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20. Roadmap: Esri Maps for x
Esri Maps for SharePoint
December 2, 3013: Esri Maps for SharePoint
4.0 Beta-1.
March 2014: 4.0 Beta-2 planned.
Q3 2014: Esri Maps for
SharePoint 4.0 expected.
Esri Maps for Office
Early March 2014: Esri Maps for Office 2.1.3
release planned.
Q1 2014: 3.0 Beta planned.
Q3 2014: 3.0 Beta planned.
Esri Maps for IBM Cognos
July 2014: Esri Maps for
IBM Cognos (Next)
expected.
Esri Maps for MicroStrategy
January 28, 2014: Esri Maps for
MicroStrategy 1.1 Web & Mobile
released.
July 2014: Esri Maps for
MicroStrategy (Next)
expected.
Esri Maps for SAP
BusinessObjects
January 30, 2014: Esri Maps for SAP
BusinessObjects 1.0 released.
July 2014: Esri Maps for
SAP BusinessObjects (Next)
expected.
Esri Maps for Dynamics CRM
February 2014: Esri Maps for Dynamics CRM
1.0.1 release planned.
Esri Maps for Salesforce
December 2013: Esri Maps for
Salesforce 1.0 (private) Beta-1
released.
Q2 2014: Esri Maps for Salesforce 1.0
release planned.
July 2014: Esri Maps for
Salesforce 1.0 release planned

21. Roadmap: ArcGIS for Open Data
 New “open data” App
 Hosted
 Custom Branding
 Search and Discovery
 Data exploration and filterin
 Common format data
download
 Subscribe to Search
 Individual Feature Pages
 Web 2.0 Style
 Sustainable workflows and
maintenance
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 April Public Beta
 Q3 Release
 Included with ArcGIS Online
Subscription

22. Roadmap: ArcGIS for Open Data
 Futures (Q2/3)
 ImageServices, Tabular Data,
Content
 Improved Metadata
 Feedback Annotations
 OGC WFS/WMS
 Usage analytics
 Map Styling
 Charts
 Simple Analysis Capabilities
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23. Roadmap: API’s

24. Roadmap: WebAPI’s
ArcGIS Web APIs
ArcGIS API for
JavaScript
Version 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8
Download 4/08/2013 5/30/2013 08/06/2013 09/27/2013 01/02/2014
ArcGIS API for
Flex
Version 3.4 3.5 3.6
Download 7/03/2013 9/27/2013 12/17/2013
ArcGIS Viewer
for Flex
Version 3.4 3.5 3.6
Download 7/03/2013 9/27/2013 12/17/2013
ArcGIS API for
Silverlight
Version 3.2
Download 12/06/2013
ArcGIS Viewer
for Silverlight
Version 3.2 3.3
Download 12/09/2013 TBD
Note:
Development effort will focus on JavaScript/HTML5 (WebApp Builder)
Flex and Silverlight API’s and Viewer will go into maintenance mode.
Flex API will join Flex Viewer in Open Source (Apache II Licence)

25. Roadmap: RunTime SDK’s
ArcGIS Runtime SDKs
10.1.1 10.2 10.2.2
ArcGIS Runtime SDK for iOS 01/08/2013
10/29/2013
10.2 Update 1 –
January 2014
Q1 2014
ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Android 01/16/2013 10/29/2013 Q1 2014
ArcGIS Runtime SDK for WPF 01/17/2013 11/04/2013 Q1 2014
ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Java
(Windows and Linux)
01/17/2013 11/05/2013 Q1 2014
ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Qt n/a 11/05/2013 Q1 2014
ArcGIS Runtime SDK for OS X n/a 10/29/2013 Q1 2014
10.2.1 private
Beta/ Public Beta
10.3
ArcGIS Runtime SDK for .NET
 Windows Phone
 Windows Store
 Windows Desktop
Q3 2013/Q1 2014 Q3 2014

26. Current: RunTime 10.2.2
 Work offline with data
 Offline basemaps (Esri, Customer)
 Operational layers
 Edit, sync
 Related tables
 Places and Directions (Customer)
 Better resources and licensing
 Easier to get started
 Common licensing and deployment
 Organizational account unlocks standard
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27. Roadmap: RunTime
 More offline
 Versioned data
 Take maps offline
 Direct read of raster and vector data
 3D
 Modular deployments
 New platforms and SDKs
 Qt cross platform SDK
 Extensible data formats
 Vector basemaps
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28. Roadmap: Content

29. Content
ArcGIS
FLOODS
HOUSING PROPERTY
WEATHER
PYLONS
PLANNING
POPULATION
WATER
POLLUTION
HERITAGE
LANDSCAPE
AGRICULTURE
TOURISM
SCHOOLS
TRANSPORT
FORESTRY MAPPING
IMAGERY
HEALTH
FISHERIES
GEOLOGY
SOILS
TRAFFIC
AIR QUALITY
PURCHASING POWER
DEPRIVATION

30. Current: Digital Globe

31. Current: Digital Globe

32. Roadmap: Digital Globe

33. Roadmap: Infrastructure

34. Roadmap: ArcGIS for Server
 Current Release (10.2.2)
 April Release
 Maintenance Release only
 Substantial performance
improvements to Web
Adaptor & Catalog
 Minor Security protocol
changes
 Next Release (10.3)
 Q3 2014
 New Service Types
 3D Service
 Vector Tiles
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35. Current release
ArcGIS Online (Dec Release)
 Custom locators from ArcGIS Server
 Support for point rotation, normalization and point over polygon and line
size
 Configure default map units for scalebar, measure, directions and analysis
 Collector (10.2)
 Capture lines and polygons
 Dedicated tablet experience
 Capture live stream of data
 Operations Dashboard (10.2)
 Widget enhancements
 Portal for ArcGIS integration
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36. Current: ArcGIS Online
 ArcGIS Online March Release (March 2014)
 Additional Analysis Functions
 Derive New Locations
 Find Similar
 Plan Routes
 Connect Origins To Destinations
 Ablity to use KML as input
 Custom roles for ArcGIS Online to manage specific functions for
different users
 Additional web app templates (Finder, Filter, Summarise)
 Support for interactive geocode rematching
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37. Roadmap: ArcGIS Online
Enterprise Cloud
 Backup and restore for ArcGIS Online
 Choose to backup config only or include data
 Allows roll back in the event of problem
 Formal metadata
 Building geoprocessing model online
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38. Longer term themes

39. Longer term themes
3D
 Support for 3D viewing on mobile devices
 ArcGIS Runtime SDKs
 Explorer for ArcGIS
 ArcGIS Online Web Scene – a web map but with 3D
 Improved desktop 3D capabilities through ArcGIS Professional
 New 3D/2D graphics engine
 Integrated 3D/2D experience
 3D Representations based on procedural technology
 Create and Publish 3D web scenes
 Global 3D basemap
 Scene services which support publishing of spatially indexed, 3D-
enabled data
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40. Longer term themes
Usability
 JavaScript Web App Builder
 Build JavaScript web applications through simple wizard driven
interface
 Non-developer target audience
 Run locally or publish as AGOL template
 ArcGIS Online
 Organisational tags
 Define organisation wide tags to improve searching
 Combining locators for custom search
 Enhanced usage tracking for apps and by user
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41. Longer term themes
Performance
 Modular deployment - deploy only elements of API required
 ArcGIS Runtime SDKs
 JS API Web Optimizer for the JavaScript API
 Vector basemap support
 Stream services
 No need for persistent data store
 Stream data to client to handle
 High capacity with high availability and cluster processing
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42. Longer term themes
Offline
 Collector
 Disconnected routing and addressing
 Additional work-flows:
 Pre-planned to allow administrators to define offline work areas
 Sometimes connected to support continued map use regardless of connectivity
Enterprise Cloud
 Backup and restore for ArcGIS Online
 Choose to backup config only or include data
 Allows roll back in the event of problem
 Formal metadata
 Building geoprocessing model online
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43. Vision

44. Research and Development
 Esri generally allocates 20% of it annual revenues to R&D, this supports an
on-going development program with the following broad aims:
 Developing a comprehensive online and offline GIS platform that supports
business in solving their problems using the geographic approach
 Expanding ready to use content and services
 Improved integration and development tools
 Delivery of GIS capability directly into business applications
 Improving ease of use
 Improved performance and scalability
 Security integration and ongoing
 Delivering high-end GIS to the web
 Appliance of GIS science to business problems
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