Interoperability & Standards
ESRI, along with strategic business partners, is committed to building interoperable and open commercial off-the-shelf software products. Open access to geographic data and software functionality using widely adopted, practical standards is our primary focus.
ESRI's ArcGIS Products:
- Support all relevant GIS and IT standards
- Provide open application programming interfaces
- Comply with Web services standards
- Support key data interchange formats
Open Platform and Technology Support
The ArcGIS platform conforms to open standards and enterprise IT frameworks that allow organizations to incorporate GIS into any application on a variety of computing and mobile devices. Read more about how ArcGIS supports multiple approaches to standards and interoperability.
Data Interoperability
Integrating multiple data sources is often crucial to building a system or completing a model. Find out how ArcGIS supports this need for interoperability with extensibility products, metadata capabilities, database models and open data formats.
Current and Ongoing Projects
ESRI software solutions are used in several worldwide projects ranging from standardizing on a portal for European users to assisting the military with troop movements and large hydrogeology projects.
SDI News
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Find out more about Standards and Interoperability
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Resources
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> Find out what’s new for standards and interoperability.
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> Read customer success stories.
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> Read ESRI Canada’s whitepaper on GIS Standards and Interoperability. |