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Ready to Go: Making the Most of Recent Geocortex Product Development

December 13th, 2012 by Peter Rowand

Webinar

Think of this free 45-minute webinar as a highlight reel of the most noteworthy Geocortex product development that occurred in 2012, with emphasis on technology that is available right now for you to implement at your organization in the coming year.

When: Wednesday, January 9th 2013 @ 10 AM Pacific Time
Presenters: Drew Millen (Geocortex Product Manager) and Steven Myhill-Jones (Latitude Geographics President and CEO)

Please register now for this webinar; registration will close on January 7th.

Posted in ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Server 10.1, Cloud, Design, ESRI, Geocortex, Geocortex Essentials, Geocortex Viewer for HTML5, Geocortex Viewer for Silverlight, HTML5, Ideas | 2 Comments »

REST-based Security is now available in Geocortex Essentials 3.1

October 28th, 2010 by Drew Millen

Today we released Geocortex Essentials 3.1!  This is a major new release of Geocortex Essentials for ArcGIS Server 10 and 9.3/9.3.1.

Of particular interest we have introduced an architecture which allows you to secure your REST-based applications.  So if you are working with the Flex or Silverlight APIs, or a viewer based on these APIs you can secure your application.

REST_Security_1 REST_Security_2

(above, screenshots of REST Manager Security administration)

Security leverages the .NET Membership & Role Providers, so your users and roles can be stored in Active Directory, SQL Server, or in a simple XML file which is shipped with Geocortex Essentials.  You can also use Windows authentication which has the added benefit of allowing single-sign-on when using Silverlight.

If you are working with ArcGIS Server Web APIs and you require the ability to secure one or more applications you will be delivering to your users, Geocortex Essentials 3.1 may be your answer.

In this release we have also put a lot of effort in to the architecture to enable organizations to deploy multiple instances Geocortex Essentials REST Elements on different servers to support scalability, or elasticity in a cloud-based deployment.

Visit the Geocortex Support Center’s downloads section to grab the installer and read the documentation related to this release.  Be sure to consult the release notes for full details of everything that has changed.

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Geocortex Essentials in the Cloud

May 3rd, 2010 by David Stevenson

I don’t need to give a preamble on the interest around cloud computing — it’s here now and organizations are using it in many different ways. ESRI is working with Amazon and offering ArcGIS Server solutions in the cloud. More specifically, there will be Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) with ArcGIS Server pre-installed and configured and ready to run. Details around licensing and support are coming at the 2010 ESRI International User Conference.

What about Geocortex Essentials in the cloud? Essentials REST Elements requires no special software other than a supported operating system. This is a recipe for success for pairing Essentials REST Elements with one of the many Amazon EC2 Windows offerings. To prove this, I fired up a basic Windows EC2 instance running IIS, made sure that port 80 was open, downloaded and installed Essentials REST Elements with all default settings, and everything was up and running as expected. I realize that EC2 is giving me basically a regular instance of Windows and so this isn’t totally surprising — but I found it pretty cool nonetheless given that it took me about 15 minutes.

So, bottom line is that Essentials REST Elements is more than happy to run on Amazon’s EC2 cloud offering. Keep in mind that this is a preliminary result, and is not saying we official support Amazon EC2. At least not just yet — we’ll keep this testing going and give an official green light soon.

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