ABSTRACT
A Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a powerful tool that supports the primary business mission. Enterprise GISs are primarily designed and implemented to provide GIS capabilities to departments and members of an organization. Enterprise architecture promotes a strategic plan for eliminating and preventing problems from occurring in an organization’s business systems. Enterprise architecture focuses on providing organization and managing risk and change within a complex system. An organization’s architecture only succeeds if it achieves the total support or buy-in from departments and members. The discipline of enterprise architecture can provide the organizational features that are missing from an enterprise GIS. GIS professionals can create information systems that are free of system errors, dependable, and filled with trusted information. There are numerous publications, articles, online sources, and books available about enterprise and GISs systems. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
