Increased Productivity
- Search by keywords or data types to find data, symbols and tools quickly
- Browse and add data directly from a new Catalogue window in ArcMap
- Simplify map creation and production with streamlined Desktop (2D/3D) and Web editing
- Automate your workflow with enhanced Python scripting engine
- Save time through faster display, enhanced user interface and the ability to run geo-processing in the background
Powerful Spatial Analysis
- Combine ArcGIS with other scientific programming to reveal powerful answers in your data
- Take advantage of new analysis tools such as fuzzy overlay and location/allocation
- Create, manage and visualise time-aware data for more in-depth analysis
- Enhanced 3D environment: for modelling, editing, visualisation and analysis
- Automate common tasks and analyses with Python scripting
Improved Imagery Access
- Use and manage imagery more efficiently on the desktop and on the server
- Experience faster performance with accelerated image display
- Save time by using the new Image Analysis window for image interpretation and processing
- Easily manage massive image collections with dynamic mosaicking and on-the-fly processing
- Efficiently serve dynamic image mosaics to many applications
New Ways to Share
- Increase collaboration via tight integration with ArcGIS.com search and share capabilities
- Easily create and distribute projects that may include data, layers, maps, tools, scenes, globes, charts and add-ins
- Discover and organise geographic data throughout the enterprise via the new search service in ArcGIS Server
- Enable feature-level editing via web applications
Expanded GIS in the Field
- Extend mobile projects to tablet-based PCs using the ArcGIS Mobile customisable, ready to deploy application
- Simplify ArcGIS Mobile deployments using the new Mobile Project Centre
- Leverage streaming GPS, photo attachments and location tracking
- Access a new iPhone mapping application directly from the Apple iTunes App Store
- Build your own iPhone applications using the ArcGIS API for iPhone
More Flexible Deployment
- Easily install and manage ArcGIS Desktop licenses
- Borrow ArcGIS 10 Desktop licenses for temporary use away from the office (e.g. field units, work from home, business travel)
- Leverage GIS everywhere: via Web-extended desktops, web hosted applications and Cloud GIS
- Extend ArcGIS to the cloud through flexible Amazon Machine Image (AMI) hosting capabilities
Better for Developers
- New add-on framework provides a simplified way to share and deploy desktop extensions
- Enhanced web API's provide new opportunities for web developers
- Automate the desktop using the Python scripting environment
- Unified experience across mobile, web and desktop for both .NET