Geocortex

 

                              

 

Web-based Mapping made better.

Why spend time redeveloping capabilities for ArcGIS Server?

Take advantage of a powerful set of off-the-shelf tools, processes, and core features which will give your organization a jumpstart. Geocortex Essentials helps fill the gaps with must have tools and features which accelerate your success.

With Geocortex Essentials, you can attain your GIS objectives faster and for significantly less cost and risk than going down a costly custom-development path.

Essentials overview

Geocortex Essentials provides flexible core elements as well as out-of-the-box tools, processes, and features that will give your organization a powerful jumpstart when building, maintaining and evolving web-based mapping and GIS applications.

Based on a geospatial framework, you can build upon and future-proof your investment in Esri technology.  

Off-the-shelf, pre-built GIS

With Geocortex Essentials, you gain a significant headstart by taking advantage of pre-built functionality that almost every organization can use. A paper napkin no longer needs to be the starting point to launch your next great GIS project.

Configurable

Don’t code, configure. We recognize every organisation is different. We provide the ability for GIS administrators to configure much of Geocortex to your specific needs without having to rely on precious program resources. Our visual administration tools provide flexibility through a wide array of options. 

              

Framework-based design

Software that is flexible enough to meet a variety of needs means that both GIS administrators and developers must have the inner workings of applications accessible to them. Geocortex Essentials elegantly accommodates this through an integrated framework of components.

A hodge-podge of tools and utilities that don’t cohesively work together is a step backwards.

Powerful SDK — If and when you need it

In some situations, there are specific aspects of your application that you may want to tailor that go beyond the scope of our configuration tools. You can extend Geocortex further by using our comprehensive client-side object model and development framework, command and event registration capabilities, and server-side REST API. Programmers are significantly more productive by taking advantage of the Geocortex SDK.

           

Core components

We provide the essentials ingredients to a great web-based mapping application. Printing, reporting, database-linking, enhanced security and search features can be easily incorporated into your applications.

Printing and Reporting

You can invoke normal or large format, high-resolution template-based printing and reporting. Template-based printing allows you to create printable maps using customised and out-of-the box layouts. Easily generate commonly used reports that have been pre-configured by the administrator.

Forms

Forms provide a simple way to create dialogs that prompt end-users for input through web or mobile applications. A form designer allows administrators to add input items such as text boxes, auto-complete entries, date pickers and drop-downs, then, associate validation rules and the control of forms layout.
 

          

Security

Configurable authentication providers give you access to Active Directory, LDAP, SQL Server or XML-based users and roles - you can choose the security that’s right for your organisation. 

Search

Customise your searches by creating your own search forms and query tasks. Search, display and report on data collected through the ArcGIS Server.
 

 

         

Logging

Built-in logging can be used to store application informational and error messages in a pre-determined folder in your server. Having this information on-hand will help you track errors and fix issues more efficiently.

Data Linking

You can link to external non-spatial databases, files, or web services and embed this data in reports, searches, and forms. Data-Linking also provides the ability to retrieve data from external data sources and link it to attributes of spatial data.

 

          

Viewers

Often, little or no programming is required. Use visual administration tools to configure a variety of elements within the viewer that include map services, security, non-spatial data sources, reporting, printing, layer list, workflows, tools, the look and feel of the application, and more.

The Geocortex Viewer for Silverlight and Sample Flex Viewer are fully integrated with other components of the Geocortex framework, including our GUI-based management tools to make configuration, customisation and upgrades easier. The out-of-the-box capabilities provided in these viewers routinely save organizations significant amounts of development.

Easily Configured

Often, little or no programming is required. Use visual administration tools to configure a variety of elements within the viewer that include map services, security, non-spatial data sources, reporting, printing, layer list, workflows, tools, the look and feel of the application, and more.

Built-in Tools

Geocortex essentials provides numerous must have features including various measurement tools, dynamic map tips, feature hyperlinks and more.
 

          

Reporting and Printing

Template-based printing allows you to run high-resolution, large format (plotter size) print jobs. Custom built templates created using our WYSIWYG report designer can include a main map, legend, overview map, north arrow, corporate logos or images, titles, copyright messages, mark-up and graphics, scale and projection information. You can run reports for single or multiple features and export the results to a PDF or CSV file.

Customisable

If you are a programmer, you can go beyond basic configuration and get under the hood to provide extensive custom modifications. Enhance the viewers by adding your own tools to the toolbar, and create new widgets or add third-party widgets. Leveraging the developer SDKs of each viewer enables you to extend or change the out-of-the-box viewers in virtually any way or integrate with third-party systems.

         

Layer List

The Layer List provides layer organization and collapsible categorization. You can also control map service transparency, layer visibility control, view a dynamic legend (reflects currently visible layers), and filter/find layers with text input. Having such a wide range of controls will enable you to have greater control over your layers, and in turn, over what data that is accessible to you.

Integration

Bi-directional integration allows you to launch from other applications or have other applications launch a viewer. The URL Integration feature supports a variety of options, such as; zoom to a specific extent, or zooms to and highlight a particular feature. Common types of applications which are integrated include document management, permitting, assessment, and other non-spatial business applications.

         

Online Help and Tutorials

Online-help and tutorials for Geocortex Essentials developers, administrators, and users is provided through a Resource Center, as well as a Discussion Forum where you can post questions and suggestions.
 

Management

Whether you are delivering a simple public application, multiple purpose-specific intranet applications, or feature-rich web-GIS, Manager gives administrators and developers the tools needed to make sites that are the right fit for your organization. Everything that can be configured in Geocortex Essentials (notwithstanding custom developer extensions) can be done through the Manager browser-based interface.

XML-based Configuration

Define application settings outside of the source code. Since configuration is stored in XML files, they can be shared between installations and easily migrated between development, test, and production environments. The XML configuration is technology agnostic and it is exposed through REST-based web services to serve both web-based and mobile clients.

Viewer Template Engine (VTE)

VTE introduces a way of managing viewers and specifically the functional capabilities outside of the viewer itself. You can build viewers as reusable templates that plug into the VTE, giving you the flexibility of building and maintaining the functionality of viewers without being impacted by the inner-workings of the viewer (which change over time). This allows you to future-proof your investment in viewer capabilities that you have worked hard to develop.

Manager

Manager brings all of the management aspects of creating applications to one-central location. Use it to create websites that are based on our XML configuration model and leverage the Viewer Template Engine from an easy to use, wizard style application. Rather than start from scratch, the Web Manager makes it easier to create custom web sites. Manager also provides the capability to manage multiple sites, whereby you can create, edit and delete sites through one central point.

Workflow

The workflow-centric design of Geocortex Essentials allows administrators to model and automate everyday GIS-related business processes that end-users can follow by doing simple, step-by-step interactions.

Streamline and Automate GIS Processes

Workflow provides an approach to model business processes to improve efficiency and ease of use. You can standardize and easily redesign steps in GIS-related processes to your specific needs. Design and deliver reusable, cross-system workflows that combine spatial and non-spatial processing.

Workflow Designer

Designer allows you to create a visual representation of your workflow. You can sequence a series of activities that represent the business process. A powerful visual simulator allows you to simulate your workflow as you’re designing it, providing inputs and inspecting outputs.
 

         

          
Activity Library

Create custom activities as well as extend pre-built workflows for most common tasks. The Activity Library contains processes like email, printing, buffering, geocoding and interactive map functions.

Workflow Controller

Controller manages the client, server and the human interactions in Workflow. It can be exposed through the REST API as part of the framework.

         

Integration IPI's 

GIS and web-based mapping applications are seldom entirely self-contained. Rather, they must communicate with other software components within and outside your organization. Our framework enables you to integrated applications seamlessly and efficiently.

SOA Architecture

Essentials is based on service-oriented architecture design principles, thus contains resources, operations and server-side components that enable customisation and extension of applications by developers. Through standardized, accessible APIs for REST, Silverlight, Flex, Javascript and .NET, there is a wide scope of flexibility to address a wide variety of needs.

REST Web Services

REST APIs leverage the framework architecture and provide access to the Core Components. APIs allow you to consume and connect to a wide variety of services. You can use our APIs as standalone components to bring into custom applications you are building, or you can leverage our APIs within our out-of-the-box Viewer applications.

         

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