GIS System Architecture Design

Anyone who spends a bit of time in the GIS industry will find the importance having a solid system foundation.  If you or your company is new to GIS, then it would be wise to adequately plan the system infrastructure before investing in a system.  But how do you know what to plan for?    It can easily be overwhelming and costly if not well educated in this topic.

For help with this topic, Dave Peters with ESRI has put out a new book called Building a GIS: System Architecture Design Strategies for Managers.  This book has laid the following areas to help present the facts before any decision is made.
 

Part I: Understanding the technology

Chapter 1 System design process

Chapter 2 Software technology

Chapter 3 Network communications

Chapter 4 GIS product architecture

Chapter 5 Enterprise security

Chapter 6 GIS data administration

Part II: Understanding the fundamentals

Chapter 7 Performance fundamentals

Chapter 8 Software performance

Chapter 9 Platform performance

Part III: Putting it all together

Chapter 10 Capacity planning

Chapter 11 Completing the system design

Chapter 12 System implementation

 

Related Information:

Podcast with Dave Peters

Press Release: Directions Media

System Architecture & Design Zen…

http://gisdk.blogspot.com/2008/07/building-gis.html

http://www10.giscafe.com/nbc/articles/view_article.php?articleid=562364

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