Geared toward the same readership as that of Roger Tomlinson's classic "Thinking About GIS, Building a GIS" is the next in a growing series establishing the fundamentals of successful GIS planning. A book everyone on the team can easily follow (CEOs, IT professionals, and GIS specialists alike), Building a GIS describes a scientific approach to IT infrastructure design for a GIS.
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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 also developed the ESRI training class System Architecture Design Strategies.
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An excellent methodology for building a successful system for GIS,
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This review is from: Building a GIS: System Architecture Design Strategies for Managers (DVD-ROM)
Dave Peters' BUILDING A GIS an excellent methodology for building a successful system for GIS. ESRI customers and managers interested in system architecture design will find it a specific A-Z instructional for creating a GIS framework, reviewing technology and options alike.
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Great GIS infrastructure design book,
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This book provides information about how to start designing a GIS infrastructure. It explains an information technology infrastructure that includes web, application, and database servers, network protocols, history of GIS, and tools for planning a GIS. This is a great book if you already have an understanding of IT concepts and theories. It's still a good book for someone who wants to learn about GIS/IT infrastructure, but having an understanding before you read this book will help a lot.
By-the-way, ESRI provides a free technical article regarding GIS infrastructure design. However, this book provides excel sheet templates and examples on how to use the excel infrastructure planning tools. I would recommend this book to anyone! Tim Hennig Green Bay, WI
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This review is from: Building a GIS: System Architecture Design Strategies for Managers (DVD-ROM)
I've read a numerous computer/network related books. This book had by far the worst organization, and unnecessary complexity that i had ever seen. I haven't read other GIS-related books yet, so i cant compare it with other Geographic Information Sys books.
It "might" be good for people who have had a lot of network experience. But its not for those who are novice and less experienced.
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capacity planning tool, map server, planning dept, total workload, web app, system architecture design, display service times, user workflow requirements, optimum capacity requirements, system architecture design process, host container machines, software service times, network transport time, declaration layer, default lineage, map service time, workflow tab, central geodatabase, network bandwidth upgrades, workflow loads, geodatabase environments, workflow requirements analysis, peak user loads, geodatabase servers, server object manager Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Windows Terminal Server, Image Server, Workflow Performance Summary, City of Rome, Intel Xeon, Server Web, Platform Selection Module, Local Clients, Dell Inc, App Svr, Name Workflow, Internet Clients, Roger Tomlinson, Dynamic Server, Desktop Viewer, Total Required, Kbps Modem, Mbpd Client, Nodes Capacity Nodes, Server Express, Intel Penn, Microsoft Office Excel, Globe Server, Server Basic, Mbpd Data Total Browse Sample Pages:
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