Latest Contributions by JohnMDye

I agree that a flat-cost model would be unsustainable for all the reasons that Cole Andrews‌ mentions and more. All I think anyone is asking for is to get rid of credits and just use straight up dollars and cents so that anyone can make sense of the cost of a particular transaction without having to do some (admittedly simple) math first. ... View more

I disagree. The best business choice is to give your customers what they want. If you do that, they won't leave your platform. Having a way to back it all up online doesn't solve anything. The point of being able to back it up is to get it outside of the ArcGIS Online ecosystem so that if you can control where your backups are hosted.  Now, if Esri wants to have their own proprietary backup file, that would be fine with me as long as I could use that backup file to do either of the below: Extract all of the backup contents into a directory on a system which gave me a bunch of File Geodatabases and Layer files which I could use to build local copies of the content I have an ArcGIS Online (apps excluded) Still an Esri proprietary format which would be a real pain to go through one-by-one and convert to an open standard, but doable with some scripting help. Allows me to recover a single content item easily and republish it. Would be super cool if I could republish a content item and all content items which have a dependency on that item Use that backup file to hydrate a new ArcGIS Enterprise instance. Eg. Maybe I want to go from AGOL to Portal. No problem, take a backup of AGOL and give it to Portal, Portal reads the backup and recreates all of the items, content, users, permissions, groups, etc. ... View more

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Thanks for the informative reply Sathya. A think a roadmap or list of planned features, capabilities or differentiators would be very helpful for those of us considering bringing the Companion app into our Enterprise. I'd much rather start early and get users accustomed to the general UX, but I'd need to know what's planned and on the roadmap in order to assess the value of bringing it on board. ... View more

Kelly Gerrow‌ - you were asking for org admin ideas, this be a good one ... View more

Idk about that. There's some real garbage in the Esri Marketplace. I think most of Esri's tools function fairly well but would agree that when it rains, it pours.  I've been thinking about this and you know, AGO Assistant is already supported by Esri via GitHub as Paul Hoeffler‌ mentioned. The last commit was on May 3 as of this writing. Given that, I'm not sure what we're asking for here. Do we want AGO Assistant turned into an official product? If so, be careful what you wish for because if they do that, who is to say it wouldn't be a 'premium app'? When I first encountered ArcGIS Monitor a few years ago when it was called 'Service Monitor' and only available through the EEAP or a Professional Service Engagement, I lobbied Esri to productize it and make it available to everyone. Lo and behold they took me up on that and its now an officially supported Esri product. Of course, it ain't free anymore either. Back in the day, it wasn't exactly free either. You had to use EEAP Credits or do a ProServices engagement to get 'Service Monitor' installed initially. One that was done though, you could either continue using EEAP Credits or ProServices engagements to have Esri update it for you, or you could download the code and update it yourself as new releases came out. Now that its an official product, you gotta pay for it. All I'm saying is, AGO Assistant is already supported through an official, open source channel that makes it free for everyone. If you want AGO Assistant to be 'officially supported' (whatever that means), just be prepared to go through an 'official procurement process' to obtain it. I am deleting my previous statement on this post and am down voting this idea now that I've given it more thought. ... View more

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I think this kind of capability is actually key when you've got a beefy workstation. When you've got an underpowered workstation, you're typically accustomed to running one thing at a time because well, your system probably struggles to run Chrome and Excel concurrently. However, when you've got a beefy desktop or mobile workstation with lots of resources, you used to being able to run resource hungry apps concurrently. Pro has no problem with consuming pretty much everything available, which is great until it's not. If you're running some data crunching scripts in the background, a SAS or SPSS model or even Tableau, Pro can start eating into resources and kind of starving those other apps of resources. An advanced setting to define an upper limit of how much RAM and possibly even cores Pro can use would be beneficial. ... View more

Nick pretty much nailed it. There needs to be a way to make content accessible by anyone without necessarily having to let everyone know its out there. ... View more

Nick pretty much nailed it. There needs to be a way to make content accessible by anyone without necessarily having to let everyone know its out there. ... View more