I wanted to give a shout out to the entire proposal team at my company, as we have finally signed the contract to build the Pennsylvania Enterprise Forest Managment system. I’m very excited about this award, as I was very involved in the technical aspects of the proposal, and led the technical presentation to the state (a rather harrowing experience). I’ll also be leading the system design and development from our Fort Collins office.
Since this is a 3 year contract, we’ll be building in .NET 2.0, using ArcGIS 9.2 and using a mix of Desktop/Engine (via Citrix) for complex geometry editing, and Server/IMS for most other functionality. We’ll see if we can sneak the Mobile ADF into the mix as well
Like the previous enterprise system’s we’ve built, we’ll be implementing this as set of tools/applications which work against a “secured” geodatabase. By secure, I mean a set of column level editing permissions, which matrix into a set of workflow permissions, using Active Directory to manage identity and access and implemented with Feature Class extensions. This allows us to implement complex, multi-stakeholder, multi-step business processes, while still enforcing all the required business logic – and we do it at the geodatabase level so it can not be circumvented. To make things more interesting, this time we’ll need to make this work in both a desktop and ArcGIS Server envionment.
Sound interesting? Send me your resume! – we’re looking for developers and a business analyst.
We’re just starting up the project, and will be doing some system level architecture up front, and then jumping into the functional modules. This will be my main focus for the next few years, so there will be plenty of postings on the technical aspects of how we are building this system.
