Table of Contents

List of figures Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Part I: Understanding the GIS software technology Chapter 1: System design process Chapter 2: GIS software technology Chapter 3: Software performance Chapter 4: GIS data administration Part II: Understanding the IT infrastructure Chapter 5: Network communications Chapter 6: GIS product architecture Chapter 7: Platform performance Chapter 8: Information security Part III: Putting it all together Chapter 9: Performance fundamentals Chapter 10: Capacity Planning Tool Chapter 11: City of Rome case study Chapter 12: System implementation Appendix A: Organizational GIS evolution Appendix B: ArcSDE geodatabase performance Appendix C: GIS file data source performance characteristics Appendix D: Building high-performance web applications Appendix E: Software performance history Appendix F: Definitions of security terms Acronyms and glossary Index About the DVD

About the Author

Dave Peters is manager of Esri's Systems Integration and has been with the company for many years. He travels the world teaching system architecture design to a variety of GIS audiences.