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Geocortex Essentials Betas available

July 11th, 2008 by Drew Millen

Well, I’m happy to blog that two weeks after the release of ArcGIS Server 9.3, we’re offering full Geocortex Essentials compatibility. I must concede that this work didn’t take two weeks; it took a couple months (we were very busy during the Beta program during which we made some educated guesses that proved correct).

We’re actually releasing two new versions of Geocortex Essentials: Geocortex Essentials 1.3.1 Beta, and Geocortex Essentials 1.4 Beta. 1.3.1 is a maintenance release in the ArcGIS Server 9.2 edition of Geocortex Essentials. It contains updated language resources and bug fixes for customers who’ve built apps on 9.2. 1.4 is the big release that supports ArcGIS Server 9.3.

It has been a pleasure to start using the new features in Web ADF 9.3. Most notably (for developers):

  • The new Web ADF JavaScript object model (not to be confused with the JavaScript API released in tandem with ArcGIS Server 9.3, which is also cool and we’re doing lots of work with)
  • Support for MS AJAX partial postbacks which will streamline future development (thankfully, adding full support for partial postbacks wasn’t as arduous as we thought it might be)

Maybe we’ve been staring at it too long, but it appears the long-awaited 9.3 performance improvements are quite noticeable (we’ll be able to quantify these improvements once we start playing with the Geocortex Optimizer Alpha in a couple weeks). Cool.

Next, maximizing the performance of Essentials (which has never received that much attention because we didn’t really worry that much about our stuff being a bottleneck with 9.2) will be a core focus during the next couple 3-week iterations.

But first, I think the team is going to enjoy Latitude’s annual “4th of July” picnic this afternoon/evening up at Shawnigan Lake.

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9.3 is shipping

June 25th, 2008 by Drew Millen

We just got word that 9.3 is now shipping. We should have a 9.3 compliant release of Geocortex Essentials for ArcGIS Server out the door shortly after we receive 9.3 and are able to address any major changes made between the release candidate and the final release.

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Geocortex Optimizer for ArcGIS Server

May 27th, 2008 by David Stevenson

optimizerThough we announced it last month at our user conference, I want to post briefly about Geocortex Optimizer, our new product for ArcGIS Server we’re timing for release around the ESRI International User Conference in San Diego this year.

Geocortex Optimizer is comprised of four distinct modules (think our ArcIMS-generation Geocortex Statistics and Geocortex Uptime products rolled into one, plus more) that will maximize the value and effectiveness of an investment in ESRI’s next-generation web-based GIS foundation. Initial versions will focus on maximizing ArcGIS Server performance and distributed system performance monitoring, with emphasis shifting to ease-of-management and the ROI calculation side of things.

This has been a challenging and exciting project that is really taking shape and that I think is going to appeal to single server organizations, large enterprises, and everyone in between. Now that the original design is coming to life and the team has some great momentum, we’re getting really excited about this product.

Notwithstanding any unforeseen technical hurdles in the next couple iterations, we should be announcing a Beta program fairly soon. Let us know if you’re interested in participating.

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