An enterprise GIS provides broad access to geospatial data and applications throughout the organization. The advantages to deploying an enterprise GIS include
- Using a common infrastructure for building and deploying GIS solutions
- Extending geospatial capabilities to an enterprise community
- Improving capabilities of other enterprise systems by leveraging the value of geographic information
- Increasing overall operating efficiency using GIS across your organization
GIS experts maintain control of the information and applications, yet productivity skyrockets as more users have access to geospatial information. Geospatial information can also be integrated with other enterprise applications to geoenable executive analysis and decision-support systems. (www.esri.com)