Collectively these applications allow users to author, analyze, map, manage, share, and publish geographic information.

The suite's main application today is ArcGIS Pro which is slowly replacing the former main components, ArcMap, ArcCatalog and ArcToolbox. ArcGIS Desktop consists of several integrated applications, including ArcMap, ArcCatalog, ArcToolbox, ArcScene, ArcGlobe, and ArcGIS Pro. GIS-centric certification criteria have been specifically defined by NAGCS, the National Association of GIS-Centric Solutions.Īs of January 2021, the company's desktop GIS suite is ArcGIS Desktop version 10.8.1 and ArcGIS Pro 2.7. The term GIS-Centric, however, has been specifically defined as the use of the Esri ArcGIS geodatabase as the asset and feature data repository central to computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) as a part of enterprise asset management and analytical software systems. In a general sense, the term GIS describes any information system that integrates, stores, edits, analyzes, shares and displays geographic information for informing decision making. ArcGIS also includes developer products and web services. Įsri uses the name ArcGIS to refer to its suite of GIS software products, which operate on desktop, server, and mobile platforms. An estimated 18,000 users from 136 countries attended in 2017. The User's Conference has been held in San Diego at the San Diego Convention Center since 1997. The company hosts an annual International User's Conference, which was first held on the Redlands campus in 1981 with 16 attendees. In a 2016 Investor's Business Daily article, Esri's annual revenues were indicated to be $1.1 Billion, from 300,000 customers ($4,000/customer/year). In 2006, revenues were about $660 million. The firm has 3,800 employees globally, and is privately held by its founders. and over 80 distributors international, with about a million users in 200 countries. The company has 10 regional offices in the U.S. Esri is best known for its ArcGIS products, and the enterprise has a 40.7% share of the global market in geographic information systems, as of 2013. The company was founded as the Environmental Systems Research Institute in 1969 as a land-use consulting firm. The company is headquartered in Redlands, California. Esri ( / ˈ ɛ z r iː/ Environmental Systems Research Institute) is an international supplier of geographic information system (GIS) software, web GIS and geodatabase management applications.

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