Overview

Geocortex Essentials is software that accelerates real-world success with ArcGIS Server with ESRI’s .NET Web ADF and/or Developer APIs (REST, JavaScript, Flex, and Silverlight). While the specific value proposition of Geocortex Essentials varies depending on who you are, but a common thread is that this off-the-shelf, yet highly customizable product will make you get your job done better and faster.

Organizations around the world are choosing Geocortex Essentials for a variety of reasons:

• End-users can do more with ArcGIS Server using our current assortment of tools and features (and a constant stream of new ones).
  
  
• Developers can leverage the ESRI-integrated configuration foundation, core elements, and developer tools to build and maintain great applications in less time.
  
  
• Managers look good by investing in off-the-shelf software that provides the most compelling, demonstrable return-on-investment available.
  
  
• Vendors that jumpstart customer projects using the world’s most advanced foundation for ArcGIS Server make their customers successful faster and with less risk—while benefiting from a business model that is sensible for the long-haul.

We believe that when re-usable technology is available, one-off custom applications are inferior for everyone except firms that seek to maximize their billable hours. With Geocortex Essentials, we do everything we can to eliminate needless programmer time when creating and managing web-based GIS applications—whether using a Web ADF or RESTful approach. Geocortex Essentials has been engineered from the ground-up around ESRI's next-generation ArcGIS Server platform to help you build and deploy complete ArcGIS Server applications, while ensuring future updates and other changes go as smoothly as possible.

Licensees benefit from the continuing enhancement of Geocortex Essentials. As part of software maintenance, new versions of Geocortex Essentials provide new features and continued compatibility with new releases of ArcGIS Server (and supporting technologies).

Customers don’t want tangential technology. Just as we've done with all our ArcIMS-oriented products, we are focused on building technology that is closely attuned to customers with leading-edge requirements, with suitable evolution and adaptation over time to ensure ongoing alignment with underlying technology development by ESRI.

Our unique Open Intellectual Property model (not to be confused with Open Source), means we are driven by constant innovation-and results in customers receiving exceptional value for their investment. And given the critical mass of licensees we’ve built since version 1.0 was released in 2007, our pace of new feature development is remarkable.

The Geocortex R&D team listens to customers and works on the frontiers of ESRI's web-GIS products to identify challenges likely to be encountered by developers and implementers in the real-world. We find and combine solutions to these challenges with in-demand tools and features to create off-the-shelf software products that pave the way for more rapid, trouble-free real-world ArcGIS Server development and deployment.

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