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Geocortex Essentials 1.2 is shipping! We’ve been working on it since June, so we’re pretty pumped it is finally complete and out the door.

From Geocortex Essentials Manager (our GUI-based web app for building ArcGIS Server apps) to a bunch of new features and improvements, the whole company is pretty excited about this release. The Essentials team is keen to enjoy a weekend before the sales team inundates us on Monday with late-stage feature requests they want to see added to the 1.3 workplan “in the spirit of agile development”.

We’re releasing Geocortex Essentials 1.2 later today – I’ll blog about it when I’ve finished cutting it and getting it out the door.

In the meantime, I thought I’d provide some advance information to those who participated in the Geocortex Essentials 1.2 Beta Program.

We had nearly a dozen participants eager to use the early releases of the 1.2 product. Everybody was given a URL to a public Defect Tracker we set up in order to log defects and features. Thanks to everyone who participated. The feedback we received was invaluable, and has definitely made 1.2 a solid release.

During the Beta Program, we held a friendly competition; whoever provided the most valuable feedback would be awarded an 80GB iPod Classic. Yesterday, after careful deliberation, we selected a winner. Congratulations to Michael Goldberg at Edwards Aquifer Authority.

It was a tight race. In fact, it was so close, we felt ethically compelled to create a runner-up prize (another 80GB iPod Classic) because Colby Free at Bexar County, provided such great feedback as well. After all, it’s the holiday season.

Again, thanks to everyone who participated in the Geocortex Essentials 1.2 Beta Program. Your participation made a real difference. Stay tuned for the Geocortex Essentials 1.2 release blog post!

We’re releasing a GUI-based application construction/management app as part of Geocortex Essentials 1.2. Analogous in many respects to SiteManager for Geocortex IMF, we’d been planning to call it SiteManager for Geocortex Essentials. We recently decided the name wasn’t suitable because it goes way beyond managing just “sites”. We renamed it Geocortex Essentials Manager.

Everyone at Latitude is having a tough time getting used to calling Geocortex Essentials Manager by its new name (some more than others). To help reeducate people, the development team has instituted a policy whereby anyone who accidentally calls it SiteManager now has to drop to the ground and do five push-ups (which, for computer geeks, is like ten push-ups to an average adult). Yongzhi is doing more push-ups than everyone else at Latitude combined.

We’re wrapping up development on Geocortex Essentials 1.2. Beta 1 should be ready for distribution in a week or so.

Let me know if you want to participate in the Beta Program. Geocortex Essentials Manager is going to make life way easier for a lot of organizations trying to get ArcGIS Server online. Here’s a preview screenshot of the Layer List management component: