Whether you’re managing on-premise or cloud deployments, this session covers everything from diagnosing slow map services to architectural recommendations, data maintenance, and effective governance. Watch the recording to gain actionable insights and elevate your organization’s GIS performance to the next level.
Make sure to check out the live demos and shared best practices from the webinar that are essential for optimizing your organization’s ArcGIS Enterprise. Key highlights include:
Diagnosing and Speeding Up Slow Map Services:
Live demo on identifying performance bottlenecks in map services using ArcGIS Pro.
Techniques like simplifying complex layers, using vector tiles for faster rendering, setting scale dependencies, and avoiding on-the-fly data reprojection.
Data Maintenance and Optimization:
Best practices for regularly compressing enterprise geodatabases.
Ensuring spatial and attribute indexes are created and maintained.
Cleaning up unused or deprecated hosted feature services and repairing geometry issues.
Query Optimization:
Demo showing how reducing the number of fields and geometry returned in queries can dramatically improve response times and reduce server load.
ArcGIS Server Configuration:
Visual walkthrough of configuring arcSOC instances (dedicated vs. shared), understanding their impact on performance, and monitoring with Task Manager.
Tips for balancing resources and avoiding server crashes due to RAM overuse.
Architecture and Workload Separation:
Recommendations for multi-machine site architecture versus all-in-one deployments. – The importance of separating hosting servers from other ArcGIS Server roles for scalability and easier troubleshooting.
Leveraging New Features:
Enabling HTTP response caching for hosted feature layers to improve query performance.
Creating and updating spatial and attribute indexes directly on hosted features in newer ArcGIS Enterprise versions.
Data Governance and Content Management:
Strategies for regular cleanup of hosted content, establishing standard operating procedures, and using portal tools for tagging and organizing authoritative data.
These demos and best practices provide actionable steps and real-world examples to help you maximize the performance, reliability, and manageability of your ArcGIS Enterprise deployment.
About the speakers
Jason Harris, Chief Technology Officer
Jason Harris has over two decades of leadership experience in cloud-based GIS infrastructure and enterprise solutions. He is the architect behind ROK’s ArcGIS Server hosting environment and numerous enterprise implementations; he also has established a scalable, high-performance platform for Managed Cloud Services. Jason specializes in system design, implementation, and optimization across a range of technologies, including ArcGIS Server, SQL Server, and multiple scripting languages.
His technical expertise covers advanced areas such as performance tuning, server administration, virtualization, and cloud transformations with ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Portal. Prior to ROK, he led the GIS system implementation for Berkeley County Water and Sanitation Authority, pioneering data management and facilities mapping solutions.
Miles Harris, ArcGIS Enterprise Cloud Engineer
Mile Harris is a GIS Cloud engineering professional with almost 10 years of hands-on experience delivering technical solutions and optimizing GIS systems. As Enterprise Cloud Engineer, he excels in architecting cloud-based GIS enterprise solutions with AWS and Azure, implementing automation with infrastructure-as-code (IAC), and streamlining complex workflows to enhance performance and scalability. With deep expertise in ArcGIS Enterprise, Python scripting, Linux, and SQL, Miles is dedicated to solving challenges and building high-quality, reliable systems.
