A few questions about AGO usage

[RyanCoodey]

Since ArcGIS Online (AGO) is the new buzz, it definitely strikes some interest for us but I have a few questions if I may:

1) If we have our own in-house custom applications (using JavaScript, Silverlight, WPF, etc. API) can they consume services from our AGO subscription?
     a.  If so, how do they authenticate?

2)  Can a service pushed to AGO ???reference??? its data source (like AGS can)?  For example if we have data in SQL Azure, can a service point to that instead of having to make a static copy?

3)  I see subscriptions are based off users and it appears these are not concurrent, is that correct?
     a. Any future plans to somehow support concurrent use without making a service public?  We ideally don???t really want to manage yet another set of users.

Thanks a lot for any info!

[MikeMinami]

1. Yes, you can use services in AGO in your own applications. Users who access the applications would authenticate using their username and password.




3. I'm not sure I understand this question. Are you saying you have data in your own SQL Azure database? If so, no, we don't reference it. The data needs to reside in our cloud.




5. Again, I'm not sure I understand the question. The user count is effectively concurrent users. All of these users can be using the system at the same time. Moving forward, we do want to support other identity management systems in addition to the built in one.

Thanks,

Mike

[RyanCoodey]

Hey Mike, thanks a lot for the information.

2) That answers my question... I was thinking along the lines of ArcGIS Server in which you can register a data store and then the data did not have to be stored/hosted on the ArcGIS server.  So sounds like this is a no.

3) So If we subscribe with a 5 user subscription, can only 5 people register (be invited) to our organizations account?  If a 6th person were to try would they get denied?  Or can say 10 people register, but only 5 can actually access it at the same time?

Thanks again for all the help!

[MikeMinami · Accepted solution]

3. The administrator of a subscription can invite users via their email address into the organization. They will only be able to invite the number of users the subscription has, no more. Users who are members if the organizational subscription can view content shared within the organization. However, if an organization chooses to share items publicly, then anyone can view them.

Thanks,

Mike

[RyanCoodey]

Ok, that clears it up for me... Thanks a lot Mike!