Getting Started with ArcGIS

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The ArcGIS System
How to leverage GIS to create and share ready-to-use geographic information across your organization and related communities.
What is ArcGIS?
A comprehensive system for working with maps and geographic information.
The new ArcGIS at 10.1
Your introduction to a compelling new vision for how the world works with GIS.
Using ArcGIS on the Web
The web is the next platform for GIS. The new capabilities this provides will change the way we think about GIS.
The ArcGIS System
ArcGIS for Desktop
How GIS professionals create, manage, and analyze maps and geographic information.
ArcGIS for Server
How to share your GIS by publishing your geographic information as open, scalable, and highly available web services.
ArcGIS for Online
Create maps on the web and extend the reach of your GIS so that everyone can access it.
ArcGIS for mobile devices
How to deploy your GIS to the field using smartphones, tablets, rugged and embedded devices.
The power of Maps
How maps are used to encapsulate and share rich geographic information with everyone.
About ArcGIS maps
Learn more about ArcMap documents (and their layers) and GIS web maps.
Types of ArcGIS maps
Learn about the different types of maps that you can create and put to work with ArcGIS.
ArcGIS for developers
APIs for ArcGIS to build custom web apps, smartphone apps, desktops and embedded devices.
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