Latest Contributions by UlfBecker

I struggle with the same issue.   ... View more

Fundamentally speaking, it is easy for an individual to manage a consumption based licensing model.  I can easily manage costs if I, as an individual, want to pay Microsoft or Intuit for access to online applications.  That becomes more difficult when you expand that to include a family.  Ever try to manage cell usage for a teenager without an unlimited data plan??? So when it comes to Esri, we first pay for access to an ArcGIS Online subscription.  Then we pay for account licenses…without a robust, transparent, integrated Account Management tool.  Then we pay for credits.  Now imagine managing that for 100 to 1000s of users/customers! So, time for the Esri version of an unlimited data that we can afford.  That means no credits…or unlimited so that they effectively become irrelevant. There, now I feel better. ... View more

I work for a large multi-national company.  Our servers use a non-descript naming convention that makes perfect sense to server support staff, but these mean very little to end-users that might one day be wanting to share local and regional content. ... View more

Scott, thanks for the reply. It is very hard for me to describe the exact nature of the data that staff would like to be able to view in an lightweight client GIS.  We have hundreds of different data sets managed by our business clients (I work in IT) that range from sub-regional data that could consist of point, lines and polys in file geodatabases that are "scattered" across our LAN.  We also have more well managed data in IT-managed or business-managed SDEs.  IT managed SDEs typically host continental to global scale data licensed from vendors while business-managed SDE hosts regional business opportunity information which is in a few examples rolled up into global scale data sets. We have over 900 unique users of ArcGIS Desktop and over 6000 IDs that have accessed maps in Portal, so the user community is large and to characterize all their data would be an impossible task.  This is my way of apologizing for not really answering your question. With respect to your comment about the second part...I'd day that there really isn't a second part.  It was just an editorial comment meant to impress the fact that Portal-based web maps in their native state are not a viable alternative.  One variable that I did not mention is that the vast majority of our data will likely never be published as web services to a lightweight tool like ArcGIS Earth would come in very handy for none-Desktop experts. Hope this helps ... View more

This has been an issue in my org ever since we started using Maps for Office.  It seems to be independent of OS (Win7, 8 & 10).  One observation we have made it that is seems more unstable when we save Excel files to SharePoint and more stable if we save files to our LAN.  We reported the issue several years ago but never seemed to drive it to any solution.  Has anyone else reported this as a bug? ... View more

To be fair, Esri staff may have only added this to the product plan recently.  I noticed that the is a "last Modified" data that shows April 11,  2017.  Curious if that is when this feature was added tot he product plan. #needesrireply ... View more

I see you beat me to the question I had...guess no one has gotten around to answering the question in the last few months despite your follow up post. ... View more

I agree completely.  My frustration with Google Earth is that is was an easy platform that would suck in staff that really could have been benefiting from the vast contact available in other formats.  Support for CAD data plus Esri's native formats (FGDB & Enterprise GDB) would dramatically increase the value and uptake of ArcGIS Earth. ... View more

Scott - in the short term we will likely manage ID on behalf of 3rd party staff and see how it goes. ... View more

Scott - in the short term we will likely manage ID on behalf of 3rd party staff and see how it goes. ... View more