The innovative Capacity Planning Tool included with Building a GIS increases the likelihood of successful GIS implementation by establishing a framework of setting performance targets and validating that targets are met throughout deployment. This book challenges the way in which IT operations are managed, and provides a better understanding of the performance scalability of software products. Building a GIS is an essential companion piece to Roger Tomlinson’s Thinking About GIS, Third Edition. Together, these books aim to help organizations implement, integrate, and scale up a GIS at a lesser cost.
The CD–ROM included with this book contains the Capacity Planning Tool and PDFs of book chapters 7 through 11, which describe how to use it. Microsoft Office Excel 2003 or higher is needed to use this design-analysis tool, and Adobe Reader is needed to view the PDFs. Updates to the Capacity Planning Tool are available through the On-line Resource Center on this Web page.

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. In addition, Peters authored the white paper System Design Strategies and developed the ESRI training class System Architecture Design Strategies.

ISBN: 9781589481596    2008   320 pages   $44.95

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