With most data, applications, and processes increasingly hosted and accessed through cloud platforms, cloud-based GIS is rapidly becoming the status quo. GIS Managers are now being asked to balance modernization efforts along with their daily workloads - effectively pushing innovation and growth to the sidelines. To balance competing priorities, GIS and IT departments must collaborate more closely than ever, and the complexity of managing GIS systems and ensuring they are always up-to-date, secure, and scalable can be a challenge.

Since geospatial data can be stored, processed, and analyzed more easily with cloud computing, it’s no surprise that almost 70% of organizations have at least one application in the cloud. As the demand for cloud solutions increases, GIS professionals are seeking a way to fully modernize, while simultaneously lightening their administrative workload. GIS Managed Cloud Services offers a way for GIS professionals to take the day-to-day GIS administration burden off their plate, while still fully benefiting from cloud-powered ArcGIS Enterprise.

Why GIS in the Cloud?

The number one reason to move from on-premise to the cloud is simple - without the constraints of on-premise systems, management, and infrastructure - your organization is free to build an ArcGIS Enterprise environment that works not only for your current reality, but supports where you are headed.

Other benefits of the cloud include:

●   Scalability - quickly responding to peak demands and lower capacity when necessary

●   Modernization - ensuring your GIS is ready for the future and any software release

●   Better Collaboration - team accessibility from anywhere in the world at any time;

●   Enhanced Reliability - reducing downtimes and lowering data loss risk

●   Resource optimization - reducing your costs and freeing up staff to focus on other important tasks

What does GIS in the Cloud Look Like?

The GIS that you work with everyday - your servers, your content, your applications, your users - it looks & functions much the same as it does if it were on-premise.  They can be Base deployments, like we see here, or they can be much larger, complex systems

Like this one.  This is obviously a much larger system, including a Dev, Stage, and Prod environment, with a Direct Connect back to the on-prem system.  But, the point being, these are still servers, with ArcGIS Enterprise and all the other applications and integrations that you may have now.  Again, these systems look very much the same as they would on premise.

Why GIS Managed Cloud Services?

Benefits of ROK’s GIS Managed Cloud Services

●   We architect, deploy, and manage your ArcGIS in the Cloud - so you don’t have to! We empower your organization to grow, thrive, and innovate.

●   24/7 US Based Customer Support - You’re supported 100% of the time. A ROK Technologies employee is always there to help.

●   Quick & Easy Cloud Migration - You can get started ASAP.

●   Custom Architecture - We custom build a GIS environment that works for you, setting you up for continued growth and future success.

●   Transparency - You have full access to your environment and data. You’ll know exactly how your system is performing at any given time.

●   We have deep expertise in Cloud, GIS, and IT and are continually honing our skillset with up-to-date knowledge.. We guarantee efficient and expedient problem solving.

GIS in the Cloud: Skies the Limit

GIS organizations of all sizes are moving to the cloud for its scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness, making it the preferred option for managing data and applications. We’ve helped hundreds of clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies to small municipalities across all Esri verticals such as AEC, Commercial, Utilities, Telecom, State and Local Government, Oil and Gas, Public Safety, and Transportation take their GIS to the next level. From scalability to reliability, the benefits of the cloud are initiating innovation and growth throughout the geospatial industry.

Learn more about how our GIS Managed Cloud Services can support your journey to the cloud by visiting ROK Technologies.

Contributed by WAGISA Sponsor ROK Technologies' Kate Billings.