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As you may have heard, due to the continuously evolving circumstances around COVID-19, last week’s Esri Developer Summit plenary was held in front of an empty audience.  If you missed the Livestream of the plenary, do not worry - it can all be found here.  And, better yet, the focus of This Week's Picks - ArcGIS Enterprise is the Dev Summit Plenary Highlights.  The highlights included: 1. Big data analysis using GeoAnalytics Tools 2. Use raster analytics and the ArcGIS API for Python to monitor coral bleaching 3. Automation comes to ArcGIS Notebooks    1. Big data analysis using GeoAnalytics Tools Sarah's demo at the plenary covered how, using Apache Spark, GeoAnalytics performs parallel analysis to analyze vector and tabular datasets in both ArcGIS Enterprise and ArcGIS Pro.  Without Spark, each tool has to be executed separately; with Spark, a function can be written to chain multiple tools together.   With the run_python_script tool, Sarah’s workflows can be streamed across ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Server.  Read more for yourself here.  As a bonus, check out the related video here. 2. Use raster analytics and the ArcGIS API for Python to monitor coral bleaching Vinay’s ArcGIS Image Server plenary demo covered how analysis tools in raster analytics can process multidimensional data.  Utilizing both Notebooks and the ArcGIS API for Python, he created a model that helped illustrate and comprehend the impact of sea surface temperature on coral bleaching.  These tools empower users to build custom applications and automate their raster workflows.  Check it out for yourself in this blog and this video.  3. Automation comes to ArcGIS Notebooks Automating tasks can make life easier for ArcGIS Enterprise administrators.  At the Dev Summit plenary, Jay spoke of three types of automation: simple, advanced, and intelligent.  As this blog mentions, it is important for organizations to understand and consider these types of automation so that they can make the best decisions for their organizations.  Starting with ArcGIS Enterprise 10.8, ArcGIS Notebooks have an "Execute Notebook" option.  This option allows administrators to automate notebook execution – to run an existing notebook without manually accessing the notebook.  Read more about this for yourself here.  To see the demo for yourself, watch the video here.  Thanks for keeping an eye out for This Week's Picks!  And, as always, thank you for reading and please feel free to reach out in the comments below   if there are any outstanding questions, comments, or suggestions for future topics.  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. ... View more

Get excited, the focus of This Week's Picks - ArcGIS Enterprise is all things 10.8!  For those who missed it, ArcGIS Enterprise 10.8 released last month on February 20th.  And while we can't cover everything in the 10.8 release in this edition of This Week's Picks, what we'll be doing an overview of the new functionality. 1. Overview of What's New in 10.8 2. What's New in 10.8 Portal Administration 3. What's New in 10.8 Data and Publishing     1. Overview of What's New in 10.8 Want an overview of the 10.8 highlights? Check out this video put out by me and my fellow Product Advocacy Lead, Peter. I'll be the first to admit, we had a blast making it, but we also made a point to cover what we consider to be the top new features and functionality in this release: user type extensions, data store items, new group settings, read-only mode for the ArcGIS Enterprise portal, an information banner, hosted map image layers, and vector tile enhancements.  Watch it for yourself here.   And, as an added bonus (or if watching videos just isn't your favorite thing to do), take a moment to check out this blog that also covers what's new in 10.8.   2. What's New in 10.8 Portal Administration With an overview of what's new covered, we can shift our focus to new functionality in specific aspects of ArcGIS Enterprise…  We'll be starting with ArcGIS Enterprise portal administrators.  They tend to have a lot of responsibility, comprised of tasks both big and small.  With each release, the product introduces new functionality to make these tasks simpler.  New features in 10.8 that do just this include the access notice, information banner, and new group capabilities. Jeffrey and Marley's blog does a deep dive on these new features, including what they are and how to configure them within your own Enterprise portal.  Take a look for yourself here. 3. What's New in 10.8 Data and Publishing 10.8 has brought a lot of new functionality to data and publishing. This blog goes into the top five new data and publishing related features, including creating data store items, using field descriptions and field value types to provide context about your data, working with auto-calculate length and area values, and publishing hosted map image layers, and other enhancements.  Hilary's blog goes into not only what the functionality is but also when it could be useful for you to implement.  Read more for yourself here. Hope you're all as excited about 10.8 as I am!  As always, thanks for keeping an eye out for This Week's Picks.  Please feel free to reach out in the comments below   if there are any outstanding questions, comments, or suggestions for future topics.  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. ... View more

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. ... View more