The cartographic tools in ArcView 8.1 have improved significantly. The number of options is mind-boggling. The rich functionality of ArcGIS is easily usable out of the box. The ArcGIS Desktop has an intuitive user interface that makes GIS accessible to all. The software is logically structured into separate applications for mapping, data management, and geoprocessing.
Impressive results are possible with minimal effort.
The extensive printed documentation supplies overall concepts, operating guides, and tutorials. In addition, all the ArcGIS software includes one year of technical support. ESRI has initiated a series of programs to facilitate creating these data models in close collaboration with our user groups for each industry. These efforts allow GIS users to spend less time designing and developing data models. ESRI s goal is to make these data model extensions open and widely available.