Esri Eastern Africa offers a range of implementation services, enabling its customers to attain rapid benefits from their GIS development efforts. Working alongside Esri EA staff builds capacity within the organisation also enhances sustained benefits and continued success.

Software Installation and Systems Configuration

Esri EA staff can assist in the installation and configuration of ArcGIS Desktop and its license manager, ArcIMS, and ArcGIS Server, ensuring that the software is up and running, accessible to all the intended users, integrates with the organisation’s DBMS, existing databases and other IT systems and applications and communicates with peripheral devices such as digitisers, plotters and scanners.

Data Collection, Migration and Automation

Data is arguably the most costly and valuable investment when you embark on the development of a GIS. Esri EA staff can guide you in the decision on what data to collect and how to collect it based on the required accuracies and technical specifications as defined by the information requirements of your organisation. Services include field data collection using mobile GIS & GPS, image processing and feature extraction, document digitisation, scanning and vectorisation, conversion & migration of data from CAD and other digital formats.

Programming and Customised Applications

Out-of-the-box functionality of Esri software often doesn’t meet the specific requirements of an organisation’s focused or light-weight GIS applications. Esri EA technical staff is able to tailor-make your applications through customisation of the user interface, programming ArcObjects, modelling using scripts and the modelbuilder and use of the various Application Development Frameworks.

Enterprise Systems Integration

Many GIS system implementations require integration of additional third party COTS solutions. Esri EA technical staff can assist in the integration of Esri GIS software with third party software and hardware into an overall geospatial solution for your organisation.

Performance and Scalability Testing

Enterprise GIS solutions include distributed processing environments where user
performance can be the product of contributions from several hardware platform environments. Esri EA technical staff’s understanding of distributed processing technology helps your organisation to scope and implement successful enterprise GIS environment based on your current and future load requirements.

Web-site and Portal Development

An increasing number of organisations are now serving maps and GIS data on the Web in order to share geo-information internally via an Intranet or with the world via the Internet. Esri EA has the specialised skills required to develop a web-site for the hosting of metadata, map, data and geo-processing services, and a geo-information portal for the discovery of the same.