The software is ready to use with nothing to install or setup. It's software delivered as a service, giving you and your team intuitive tools to create and publish maps and apps on demand. You stay in control of your data, and empower everyone with easy-to-use maps on the web.
Effortlessly share your maps on blogs, web pages, and web applications, or to Facebook and Twitter.
With the free downloadable ArcGIS app for smartphones and tablets you and your organization can access your maps wherever you are, at any time. Or simply use the browser on your mobile device to discover content, collect and report data, and perform GIS analysis. All with no additional work.
Access a rich collection of basemaps, demographic maps, image services, and data. These maps are a great foundation for your work and are created only from the authoritative content from commercial data providers and the GIS user communities around the world.
ArcGIS Online gives you an easy-to-use and intuitive workspace for collaborating with others in your organization. Users can create groups and invite others to work together on projects of common interest. Groups can be either private or public, and group members can share maps, data, and other content with each other efficiently and quickly.
Turn your data into useful information by creating content-rich intelligent maps that tell your story. Add your data, create mashups with maps and data shared by other users. Add pop-ups to your map to highlight information including, photos or links to web pages.
Create interactive maps of your data directly inside Excel with the Esri Maps for Office add-in. Quickly map addresses or locations and other geographic data such as sales by territory. Add the map you created in Excel as a slide to your PowerPoint presentation. Or publish and share your map in ArcGIS Online for others to use. Esri Maps for Office supports 10 languages. Download Esri Maps for Office in the language of your choice.
Turn your data into web-enabled services your whole organization can use. Publish your data as feature or tiled map services in the secure Esri cloud while maintaining all ownership and rights. You can keep your data private within your organization or share it publically for others to use.
You control who can access your data and maps. Multiple layers of security protect your information from unauthorized access. We constantly monitor and improve our application, systems, and processes to meet the dynamic challenges of security. Learn more [PDF].
Developers can build custom applications using ArcGIS APIs and SDKs to create web and mobile applications that include the sharing and collaboration tools.