Forestry Commission - ArcGIS as a Platform Part 1
At Esri UK Annual Conference 2014 Moving 1000+ ArcGIS for Desktop Editor users to the web The Forestry Commission have a duty of care for over 700,000 hectares of woodlands in England and Scotland with a market value in excess of £3 billion. Forester Desktop is the Commission’s principal corporate asset management system that underpins all the key business processes and activities taking place on the Forestry Commission estate - from conservation and recreation to land ownership, civil engineering and forest management. The Forester Desktop application enables 1000+ front line staff do their jobs, helping to ensure legal and policy compliance, reducing and mitigating risks and acting as a corporate memory and knowledge base. However, in 2012 a number of challenges were identified by the business, namely the need for greater data transparency and collaboration; increase the user base; reduce complexity for users; meet the needs of a distributed and mobile workforce; to enable country divergence; not to be constrained by infrastructure. Coupled with advances in technology and increased bandwidth to rural areas, the Forestry Commission have met this challenge by delivering a centralised web editing solution.
Forestry Commission - ArcGIS as a Platform Part 1
- 1. Moving 1000+ ArcGIS for Desktop Editor users to the Web Morag Hawkins Forester Programme Manager Tony Farndon Technical Development Manager
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- 7. IFOS Forester Desktop Forester Desktop is a bespoke GIS software application • Over 1200 desktop users • Distributed architecture located in 16 Forest District offices across England and Scotland and 4 offices in Natural Resources Wales (NRW) • Users edit and manage their own data using Forester • Embeds business rules to ensure standard, consistent, accurate and timely data is collected and recorded
- 8. IFOS Forester Desktop Key Points • Forester encompasses all of the FC business • An intuitive solution allowing non-GI users to use GI • 60%+ of all FC staff use this solution • 85% of users see it as a critically important to their job • We have delivered a truly enterprise GI system for the whole organisation
- 9. IFOS Why move 1200 users to the web? Business drivers for change • We want a wider user base • Our workforce is a mobile workforce • We want a consistent view of GB data to the make best decision for the future of FC • Future proof Infrastructure
- 10. IFOS Key Principles In developing a web editing application it was of paramount that the key principles of desktop editing were adhered to: • Embedding rules to ensure standard, consistent, accurate data is collected and recorded across countries. • Intuitive easy to use UI thereby enabling business users who own the data to manage the data.
- 12. IFOS Efficiencies • A truly flexible web application that is configurable by the FC without software development, thereby reducing future development costs. • Available to all staff on the FC network with no requirement for specialist GIS desktop software, only a web browser, thereby significantly reducing support and infrastructure costs • This enables staff to work at any location across the FC, thereby reducing travelling costs. • Intuitive and easy to use, achieved by reducing complexity. No requirement for training. • Potentially release cycles can be more frequent and deployed instantaneously across the FC. Change can be implemented at pace. • Ultimately reduce hardware, software, support and maintenance. Benefits
- 13. IFOS Resilience • Robust technology platform that will serve the FC well for the long term future business needs. • Forester Web accommodates organisational change and through the provision of an application that can be easily configured, ported hosted, or provided as a service Benefits
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