https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/create-an-arcgis-pro-saas-offering-on-azure/idi-p/1264526 <P>Our organization is starting a journey to migrate its current environment consisting of an on-prem managed Citrix cluster running ArcMap to a modern Azure hosted, ArcGIS Pro environment.</P><P>In order to simplify the technology stacks that our organization manages, we always look towards SaaS and PaaS offerings before we build infrastructure that we have to manage ourselves.&nbsp; So, when we were looking at solutions to host ArcMap in a virtual desktop environment, I was hoping to find a SaaS offering for ArcMap Pro.&nbsp;</P><P>The solution seems to be an Azure Virtual Desktop environment with ArcGIS Pro installed.&nbsp; This is a non-trivial service to configure and operate.&nbsp; By having a SaaS solution, I would hope to reduce my ongoing operational effort by having a SaaS Virtual Desktop environment with ArcGIS Pro as a offered service.</P><P>Ideally, the SaaS offering would allow me to:</P><UL><LI>Pay only for the licenses and compute/storage I consume.</LI><LI>Allow for Pro Addins to be developed and deployed to my ArcGIS Pro environment.</LI><LI>Allow for integration with an ArcGIS Enterprise environment(s) already existing within my organization (on Azure)</LI></UL><P>As an organization that is trying to focus its effort on building value for our customers, we would prefer to spend our resources on developing new products and not managing infrastructure.&nbsp; An ArcGIS Pro SaaS offering would help us with the goal.</P> Mon, 06 Mar 2023 15:47:08 GMT ScottTaylor8 2023-03-06T15:47:08Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/create-an-arcgis-pro-saas-offering-on-azure/idi-p/1264526 <P>Our organization is starting a journey to migrate its current environment consisting of an on-prem managed Citrix cluster running ArcMap to a modern Azure hosted, ArcGIS Pro environment.</P><P>In order to simplify the technology stacks that our organization manages, we always look towards SaaS and PaaS offerings before we build infrastructure that we have to manage ourselves.&nbsp; So, when we were looking at solutions to host ArcMap in a virtual desktop environment, I was hoping to find a SaaS offering for ArcMap Pro.&nbsp;</P><P>The solution seems to be an Azure Virtual Desktop environment with ArcGIS Pro installed.&nbsp; This is a non-trivial service to configure and operate.&nbsp; By having a SaaS solution, I would hope to reduce my ongoing operational effort by having a SaaS Virtual Desktop environment with ArcGIS Pro as a offered service.</P><P>Ideally, the SaaS offering would allow me to:</P><UL><LI>Pay only for the licenses and compute/storage I consume.</LI><LI>Allow for Pro Addins to be developed and deployed to my ArcGIS Pro environment.</LI><LI>Allow for integration with an ArcGIS Enterprise environment(s) already existing within my organization (on Azure)</LI></UL><P>As an organization that is trying to focus its effort on building value for our customers, we would prefer to spend our resources on developing new products and not managing infrastructure.&nbsp; An ArcGIS Pro SaaS offering would help us with the goal.</P> Mon, 06 Mar 2023 15:47:08 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/create-an-arcgis-pro-saas-offering-on-azure/idi-p/1264526 ScottTaylor8 2023-03-06T15:47:08Z