Reports of the death of ArcSDE are greatly exaggerated! ArcSDE is still very much part of the Esri platform What is ArcSDE? Initially a standalone database named Spatial DataBase Engine (SDBE), acquisition by Esri in 1996 saw it rebranded to Arc Spatial Database Engine (ArcSDE). ArcSDE acted as a form of middleware, an interface…
Read detailsExprodat, the oil and gas ArcGIS platform specialist, Esri Gold Partner and Getech group company, has always made it part of the company ethos to support their staff in pursuing extra-curricular activities and raising money for worthy causes. So once again, an intrepid team of four Exprodaters set out to raise money for the charity,…
Read detailsDuring the 2016 Esri Business Partner Conference in Palm Spring, California the E360 Video Team sat down with Exprodat’s Technical Director, Chris Jepps to find out more about the company’s award-winning Story Map. Earlier in the conference, it was announced that Exprodat had won the prize for ‘Best Use of Story Maps outside the Enterprise‘…
Read detailsThere’s one week to go before the 2016 Esri User Conference (UC) in San Diego, and Esri has released its annual UC Q&A, which sets the scene for the UC and provides answers to common questions about Esri’s products and services. This year the PDF download numbers 199 pages (up from 169 last year); so,…
Read detailsBy this stage you’re probably wanting to know who’s taken out the first prize in our inaugural story map competition. In my previous two blogs I went through our honourable mentions (including our third place winner) and our runner-up. If you haven’t already give these a look. So, without further ado: To the victor go…
Read detailsWelcome back to the second installation of our Story Map Competition blog. If you’ve missed them, have a look at my previous blog on the origins of the competition and a discussion of some of our notable entries. Our silver prize winner In 2nd place we have Significant UK Offshore Discoveries and Fields by Simon…
Read detailsLast year at Exprodat we decided to hold an internal competition that would couple the keen minds of our staff and our deeply ingrained love of (quality) maps. In days gone our map competitions elicited a few high quality entries, but due to the limitless possibilities of available data and the necessity of using ArcGIS…
Read detailsI came away from this year’s excellent Esri Business Partner Conference with one clear message: ArcGIS is a Web GIS system (or rather, ‘an integrated Web GIS Platform’ in Esri speak). Now Esri have talked about the importance of Web GIS for several years, but this year the message was unambiguous. If you want to…
Read detailsLook around, and you’ll find GIS everywhere – in obvious and less obvious ways. From Google Maps to air traffic control, from parcel tracking to land use analysis, geographical information systems have come to underpin every major aspect of our economy, including oil and gas. GIS is no longer a standalone concept or system, it’s…
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