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ESRI ArcGIS vs ESRI ArcGIS for Desktop comparison

 

Categories and Ranking

ESRI ArcGIS
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Geographic Information Systems (1st)
ESRI ArcGIS for Desktop
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
0
Ranking in other categories
Spatial Information Management Software (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

ESRI ArcGIS and ESRI ArcGIS for Desktop aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. ESRI ArcGIS is designed for Geographic Information Systems and holds a mindshare of 43.7%, up 38.6% compared to last year.
ESRI ArcGIS for Desktop, on the other hand, focuses on Spatial Information Management Software, holds 49.1% mindshare, down 49.7% since last year.
Geographic Information Systems
Spatial Information Management Software
 

Featured Reviews

Alan Bloor - PeerSpot reviewer
Highly reliable and adaptable, and their support is brilliant
On the whole, the solution is stable. I rate ESRI ArcGIS' stability a seven out of ten. I rate it a seven because they've moved to cloud-based technology, and if we've got a slow network, ArcPro could take forever to load up. That is a real pain. I had a meeting this morning, and we waited half an hour for ArcPro to open. But ArcMap, in the old days, would open in about five seconds. The solution is stable, but it can be really slow. If you do some extreme analysis, I'm working on between 30 million and 1.7 billion rows of data for the whole UK, and ArcGIS doesn't like it very much. I'm using an alternative because ArcPro would take hours and hours to do it.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Real Estate/Law Firm
14%
Government
14%
Construction Company
12%
Energy/Utilities Company
7%
Energy/Utilities Company
18%
Government
18%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ESRI ArcGIS?
Their pricing model is not complex. I have a personal account, which costs me £110 a year for a personal, no-commercial-use account, which is fantastic because it opens it up to anybody who wants t...
What needs improvement with ESRI ArcGIS?
The technical help documentation could be improved. One of the biggest complaints within the GIS community is that, while they do have lots of documentation, it's a bit rubbish. Sometimes, we want ...
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Also Known As

ArcGIS
ArcInfo
 

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Sample Customers

Port of Rotterdam
Port of Rotterdam