This Week's Picks - ArcGIS Enterprise #9
It's time for This Week's Picks - ArcGIS Enterprise. As you may know, within ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Server can be licensed for a variety of different roles. There is of course ArcGIS GIS Server, necessary to deploy a hosting server in your base ArcGIS Enterprise deployment, but there's also:
- ArcGIS Image Server
- ArcGIS GeoEvent Server
- ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Server
- ArcGIS Notebook Server
- ArcGIS Business Analyst Server
Each role has its own unique capabilities. Instead of just describing the capabilities of each, we're going to take a look at specific examples of ArcGIS GeoEvent Server, ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Server, and ArcGIS Notebook Server. It doesn't matter if you've only ever used a base deployment of ArcGIS Enterprise or if you've only ever used ArcGIS Enterprise for analyzing your big datasets… After reading this edition of This Week's Picks, you'll be thinking, Wow, ArcGIS Enterprise can do that?
We’ll be covering:
1. Dynamic geofence synchronization in GeoEvent Server
2. Detecting Water Utility Leaks with GeoAnalytics Server
3. What is ArcGIS Notebook Server?
1. Dynamic geofence synchronization in GeoEvent Server
This blog explores the concept of geofences - a location-based concept that is set up so that when A occurs within a boundary, B is triggered. For example, when a moose wearing a GPS collar walks into a park boundary, the local wildlife department gets an email notification. These boundaries, such as a park's border, are typically static. “Typically” is the keyword there – sometimes the boundaries are dynamic. Think about boundaries that change; a meteorologist might need to track wind speeds within a moving hurricane. Never to fear, GeoEvent can accommodate both static and dynamic boundaries. This blog describes the workflow in order to do this, provides demo data, and a video to go through it step by step. Check it out for yourself here.
2. Detecting Water Utility Leaks with GeoAnalytics Server
This blog explores how a data analysis workflow for a water utility enables the organization to make better business decisions and improve operations. It starts with creating a space time cube in ArcGIS Pro, filtering the results, taking a look at trends through ArcGIS Pro's emerging hot spots tool, and then joining features. This concept is not just relevant to water utilities though; GeoAnalytics can help out any organization that needs to process, analyze, and understand their larger data sets faster. Read more for yourself in this blog here.
3. What is ArcGIS Notebook Server?
Released in ArcGIS Enterprise 10.7, ArcGIS Notebooks leverage ArcGIS Notebook Server by providing a Jupyter notebook environment in ArcGIS Enterprise. Once set up and licensed, ArcGIS Notebooks allows for you to run analysis and build models right within your GIS system of record. It's not just for data science - you can use ArcGIS Notebooks to clean up portal items or notify web map authors of broken links. The best thing is that you can share these notebooks with others; once you have your notebook configured, you can distribute them - allowing for not only transparency but also reproducibility. Take a look at this blog for more details.
Thanks for reading This Week's Picks! As always, please feel free to reach out in the comments below 
if there are any outstanding questions, comments, or suggestions for future topics. I'd love to hear from you! And be sure to check out This Week's Picks - ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro - and stay tuned for more This Week's Picks - ArcGIS Enterprise.