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An introduction to licensing apps through your portal

Apps can be purchased for your ArcGIS Enterprise organization as part of user types or separately as add-on apps. These apps will be included in your portal license file.

The following sections describe apps that can be used with your ArcGIS Enterprise portal, and how they are licensed.

ArcGIS AppStudio

ArcGIS AppStudio allows you to convert maps and GIS data into native apps that can be shared with others in your enterprise or to the public through popular app stores. The apps built with AppStudio are cross-platform—that is, they will run on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms. When AppStudio is included with a member's user type, it provides a low-code solution for creating apps. Members can build apps with configurable app templates, extend templates with custom code, or create apps from scratch. Administrators can also assign members an add-on license for ArcGIS AppStudio Developer Edition to access advanced app templates and other tools. With this add-on license, members can create a custom stand-alone build of their app suitable for a public app store (App Store or Google Play) or enterprise distribution.

ArcGIS AppStudio is included with the essential apps in the core Esri user types, such as GIS Professional, Creator, Editor, Field Worker, and Viewer.ArcGIS AppStudio Developer Edition is available as an add-on license. Members with included or add-on licenses can download the software from appstudio.arcgis.com.

Follow the instructions in Manage licenses to view license details and manage member licenses.

ArcGIS Business Analyst web app

ArcGIS Business Analyst web app allows commercial Realtors, retailers, economic development agencies, and others to evaluate markets for expansion, consolidation, or investment.

To use ArcGIS Business Analyst with ArcGIS Enterprise, see the installation overview for requirements and instructions. The ArcGIS Business Analyst web app requires an add-on license, and each portal member needs a license to use the web app. Follow the instructions in Manage licenses to view license details and manage member licenses.

ArcGIS Collector

ArcGIS Collector is a mobile data collection app that allows you to accurately capture new data and update existing features in the field, even disconnected, and integrate seamlessly into ArcGIS. Using Collector, you can collect and update data using the GPS or by tapping on the map, fill out map-driven forms, and optionally use professional-grade GPS receivers.

ArcGIS Collector is included with the field apps in some of the core Esri user types, such as GIS Professional, Creator, and Field Worker, or as an add-on license. See the ArcGIS Collector FAQ for details on how to get the mobile app.

ArcGIS Configurable Apps

ArcGIS Configurable Apps allow you to build web apps from your web maps, scenes, and groups without having to write code. ArcGIS Configurable Apps are included with the essential apps in the core Esri user types, such as GIS Professional, Creator, Editor, Field Worker, and Viewer. ArcGIS Configurable Apps are included in the portal and no additional installation is necessary.

ArcGIS Dashboards

ArcGIS Dashboards allows you to monitor people, services, assets, and events in real time. Using Dashboards, you can create and share dashboards with your ArcGIS Enterprise portal. Dashboards include charts, gauges, maps, and other visual elements representing the activities and key performance indicators that are most vital to meeting your objectives.

Dashboards is included with the essential apps in the core Esri user types, such as GIS Professional, Creator, Editor, Field Worker, and Viewer. The app is included in the portal and no additional installation is necessary.

ArcGIS Drone2Map

ArcGIS Drone2Map allows you to visualize and analyze geolocated images you collect with a drone to help you inspect areas from the air and monitor changes. 2D and 3D maps you create with Drone2Map can be shared to your ArcGIS Enterprise portal.

Drone2Map requires an add-on license and additional installation. Each portal member needs a license to run Drone2Map. See Configure ArcGIS Drone2Map licenses for instructions to set up licensing through the portal.

Note:

Starting at ArcGIS Enterprise 10.9.1, ArcGIS Drone2Map will have two license levels: Standard and Advanced. If you are upgrading from a previous version of ArcGIS Enterprise and using Drone2Map 2021.1, you must unassign the ArcGIS Drone2Map license and reassign your members either the ArcGIS Drone2Map Standard or ArcGIS Drone2Map Advanced license.

Once Drone2Map licensing is configured, follow the instructions in Manage licenses to view license details and manage member licenses.

ArcGIS Enterprise Sites

ArcGIS Enterprise Sites allows you to create a tailored web page experience for your users to help you share your portal's authoritative content to other departments. Instead of learning to navigate the portal, members can go directly to the custom web page you create to navigate the content relevant to them. Sites is included with the essential apps in the core Esri user types, such as GIS Professional, Creator, Editor, Field Worker, and Viewer. No additional installation is necessary.

ArcGIS Excalibur

ArcGIS Excalibur is a web app that modernizes and enhances image-based workflows through intuitive experiences. These experiences allow you to search, discover, and work with imagery in fully integrated workflows for image analytics and exploitation. ArcGIS Excalibur requires an add-on license and additional installation.

ArcGIS Experience Builder

ArcGIS Experience Builder allows you to create unique web experiences using flexible layouts, content, and widgets that interact with 2D and 3D data. Start with templates to create mobile-adaptive apps, modify template layouts for a custom design on different screen sizes, or build apps from scratch for more creative freedom.

ArcGIS Experience Builder is included with the essential apps in the core Esri user types, such as GIS Professional, Creator, Editor, Field Worker, and Viewer. The app is included in the portal and no additional installation is necessary.

ArcGIS Explorer

ArcGIS Explorer is a mobile app that allows everyone in your organization to access their maps everywhere they go, anytime they need them, even disconnected. You can visualize data, search for places and features in your maps, view information about your assets, mark up the maps to highlight important features, and get directed to hard-to-see assets with the compass.

ArcGIS Explorer is included in the core Esri user types, such as GIS Professional, Creator, Editor, Field Worker, and Viewer. See the ArcGIS Explorer FAQ for details on how to get the mobile app.

ArcGIS Field Maps

ArcGIS Field Maps is a new app that allows you to streamline field workflows and take maps anywhere. Mobile workers can use Field Maps to explore the maps you make in ArcGIS, collect and update data, and track their location from one app. Field Maps allows mobile workers to take their maps anywhere, including offline and indoors, and it allows you to deploy maps and content to a single location. For more information, find out what's new in ArcGIS Field Maps.

ArcGIS Field Maps is included with the field apps in some of the core Esri user types, such as GIS Professional, Creator, and Field Worker, or as an add-on license. See the ArcGIS Field Maps page for details.

ArcGIS for Office

ArcGIS for Office provides mapping capabilities in Microsoft Office through a Microsoft add-in. You can use this add-in with Microsoft Excel to create maps in your portal that show data from your spreadsheets. Additionally, an add-in for PowerPoint allows you to embed these maps into your presentations.

ArcGIS for Office is included with the office apps in some of the core Esri user types, such as GIS Professional, Creator, Editor, Field Worker, and Viewer, or as an add-on license. You can download ArcGIS for Office from the Esri website.

See ArcGIS for Office Supported environments for information on ArcGIS Enterprise versions.

ArcGIS for SharePoint

ArcGIS for SharePoint provides mapping capabilities in Microsoft SharePoint through a Map Web Part for SharePoint pages. You can use this to display content from your portal in your SharePoint pages. It also includes workflows that allow you to spatially enable and geo-enrich SharePoint lists or external data through Business Connectivity Services (BCS).

ArcGIS for SharePoint is included with office apps in some of the core Esri user types, such as GIS Professional, Creator, Editor, Field Worker, and Viewer, or as an add-on license. You can download ArcGIS for SharePoint from the Esri website.

See ArcGIS for SharePoint Supported environments for information on supported ArcGIS Enterprise versions.

Note:

ArcGIS for SharePoint 3.0 and 3.0.1 are not supported in a disconnected environment. If your organization does not have access to the internet, you can't use these app versions with ArcGIS Enterprise.

ArcGIS GeoPlanner

ArcGIS GeoPlanner allows you to collaborate with other members of your portal organization on land-based planning and designs.

ArcGIS GeoPlanner requires an add-on license, and each portal member needs a license to use the app. GeoPlanner is included in the portal and no additional installation is required. Follow the instructions in Manage licenses to view license details and manage member licenses.

ArcGIS Instant Apps

ArcGIS Instant Apps is the next generation of Configurable Apps, providing a streamlined experience to share your maps using modernized no-code app templates that are compatible with the latest features of Map Viewer. Publish instantly with app defaults, modify essential settings in express setup mode, or use the full setup to search and configure all the available tools and settings to customize your app. In the gallery, you can search app capabilities to choose the right template and manage the apps you've created with Instant Apps.

This app is included with the essential apps in the core Esri user types, such as GIS Professional, Creator, Editor, Field Worker, and Viewer. ArcGIS Instant Apps is included in the portal and no additional installation is necessary.

ArcGIS Insights

ArcGIS Insights is an app you access through your portal that allows you to perform iterative and exploratory data analysis on ArcGIS web services, Excel spreadsheets, and data stored in databases.

ArcGIS Insights in ArcGIS Enterprise requires an add-on license or the Insights Analyst user type, and requires an additional installation. Each portal member needs a license to use Insights. When a member is licensed to use Insights, they will have access to both the Insights web application and ArcGIS Insights desktop. Follow the instructions in Manage licenses to view license details and manage member licenses.

ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud

ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud is an extension for Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop that allows cartographers and graphic designers to design compelling visuals using data-driven maps and layers from ArcGIS. You can find, import, and create geographic content to add to your artwork as editable vector layers and high resolution images.

The extension is included in the GIS Professional, Creator, Editor, and Viewer user types, and is downloaded and installed separately. See the ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud help for details.

ArcGIS Mission Manager

ArcGIS Mission Manager is the web app that allows users to create and interact with missions using ArcGIS Mission, a geospatial communications and situational awareness tool.

ArcGIS Mission Manager requires an add-on license and is installed separately as part of ArcGIS Mission.

ArcGIS Navigator

ArcGIS Navigator is a professional mobile navigation app that uses GIS software to route your field workforce. It comes with hundreds of global maps, or add your own custom map. Define travel modes, route on your own roads, and search your assets. Work online or offline, on Android or iOS, and with other ArcGIS field apps. See the ArcGIS Navigator FAQ for details on how to get the mobile app.

ArcGIS Navigator requires an add-on license, and each portal member needs a license to use the app. Navigator is included in the portal and no additional installation is required. Follow the instructions in Manage licenses to view license details and manage member licenses.

ArcGIS Pro

The ArcGIS Pro application is part of ArcGIS Desktop, which has three levels—Desktop Basic, Desktop Standard, and Desktop Advanced—with each level providing additional functionality. Only ArcGIS Pro uses licensing through the organization. Other ArcGIS Desktop applications—ArcMap, ArcCatalog, ArcGlobe, and ArcScene—use the local ArcGIS Administrator application to set levels and extensions.

ArcGIS Pro is included in the GIS Professional user types, or as an add-on license. You can assign a member a license level and enable access to optional extensions that provide specialized tools as well. For a member to use an extension, the member needs both a level and a license for the specific extension product.

When the member to whom you have assigned a license starts ArcGIS Pro and signs in, the application runs with the level and any extensions you specified. However, if you have not specified licensing for a particular member, ArcGIS Pro will not run when that member attempts to sign in. You can reassign licenses as often as necessary, and the resulting changes take effect promptly in ArcGIS Pro. If you completely revoke the license while the member is working in ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Pro displays notifications that the software is not authorized and starts the process of closing automatically. After a grace period ends, the member is prompted to save any work and is no longer able to use ArcGIS Pro.

In ArcGIS Pro, a member can check out a license to authorize ArcGIS Pro for use in a disconnected environment. A red box displays next to the member's name when the license is checked out. When a license is checked out, you cannot make any changes or revoke the license. If you select multiple members and at least one member is running ArcGIS Pro in disconnected mode, you cannot configure licenses for any of the selected members.

For organizations requiring more control over offline usage of ArcGIS Pro, an administrator or a member with licensing privileges can prevent all ArcGIS Pro licenses in the organization from being taken offline.

If the device using the checked out license is lost or destroyed, the member will be unable to check out a new license or use ArcGIS Pro in a connected environment. In this case, you'll need to release the checked out license using the ArcGIS Portal Directory. This frees the outstanding license and allows the member to check out a new license or use ArcGIS Pro in a connected environment.

In a connected environment, you can remotely terminate an ArcGIS Pro session. For example, a member is signed in and has ArcGIS Pro actively running on three machines simultaneously (the maximum allowed) but has left the office and now needs to use ArcGIS Pro in the field. Terminating a session allows the member to sign in and start ArcGIS Pro. In addition, if ArcGIS Pro closed in an unexpected manner, you can terminate the session to quickly free the license.

See Configure ArcGIS Pro licenses for instructions to set up licensing through Portal for ArcGIS.

Once ArcGIS Pro licensing is configured, follow the instructions in Manage licenses to view license details and manage member licenses.

ArcGIS QuickCapture

ArcGIS QuickCapture is a field data capture app that allows you to capture data fast. You can capture both the location and attributes of assets or incidents as you travel. A project author determines the arrangement of buttons, how they appear, and the information they collect. The app allows you to capture both photos and sensor information from the device.

ArcGIS QuickCapture is included with the field apps in some of the core Esri user types, such as GIS Professional, Creator, and Field Worker, or as an add-on license. The QuickCapture designer is included in the portal. See the ArcGIS QuickCapture page for details on how to install the mobile app.

ArcGIS Solutions

ArcGIS Solutions is a collection of focused maps and apps that help address challenges in your organization. They leverage your authoritative data and are designed to improve operations, gain new insight, and enhance services in government, utility, defense, public safety, and commercial business.

ArcGIS Solutions is included with the GIS Professional and Creator user types and requires an additional installation.

ArcGIS StoryMaps

ArcGIS StoryMaps is a story authoring web-based application that allows you to share your maps in the context of narrative text and other multimedia content. You can use StoryMaps to author stories with the story builder, and publish, share, and manage your stories.

ArcGIS StoryMaps is included with the essential apps in the core Esri user types, such as GIS Professional, Creator, Editor, Field Worker, and Viewer. It is also included with the Storyteller user type for organization members who only need access to the StoryMaps app to create and edit stories. The app is included in the portal and no additional installation is necessary.

ArcGIS Survey123

ArcGIS Survey123 facilitates form-centric data collection workflows in ArcGIS. For a good portion of data collection efforts, geography is critical but not central to the workflow. ArcGIS Survey123 recognizes this fact and brings the sophistication of forms expected in the industry into ArcGIS.

ArcGIS Survey123 is included with the field apps in some of the core Esri user types, such as GIS Professional, Creator, and Field Worker, or as an add-on license. Go to https://survey123.esri.com/ to create forms and publish to ArcGIS Enterprise. See the ArcGIS Survey123 page for details on how to install the mobile and web apps.

ArcGIS Tracker

ArcGIS Tracker allows organizations to capture the tracks of field staff, monitor where they are, and analyze where they have been. Track patterns give decision-makers real-time information to support critical field activities and perform analysis in ArcGIS. It is a mobile solution composed of two apps: the ArcGIS Tracker mobile app and the Track Viewer web app.

The Track Viewer web app is included in the portal and available to administrators and portal members with the view location tracks privilege. The web app doesn't require the ArcGIS Tracker add-on license.

Each portal member needs a license to use the Tracker mobile app. The license is available as an add-on license for the core Esri user types, such as GIS Professional, Creator, Editor, Field Worker, and Viewer. See the ArcGIS Tracker page for details on how to install the mobile app. Follow the instructions in Manage licenses to view license details and manage member licenses in the portal.

ArcGIS Web AppBuilder

Web AppBuilder is an intuitive what-you-see-is-what-you-get app that allows you to build web apps without writing code. With Web AppBuilder, you can build and customize apps that run on desktop, tablets, and smartphones with ready-to-use widgets such as querying, geoprocessing, and printing.

Web AppBuilder is included with the essential apps in the core Esri user types, such as GIS Professional, Creator, Editor, Field Worker, and Viewer. The app is included in the portal and no additional installation is necessary.

ArcGIS Workflow Manager

ArcGIS Workflow Manager Server is a scalable enterprise workflow management system that automates and simplifies many aspects of performing and managing GIS and non-GIS work in an organization. It provides real-time tools to manage people, processes, and products required to complete work.

To use Workflow Manager services and the Workflow Manager web app that is integrated with the ArcGIS Enterprise portal, your organization members must be assigned a license for the ArcGIS Workflow Manager user type extension. ArcGIS Workflow Manager requires an additional installation and a designated Workflow Manager Server.

ArcGIS Workforce

ArcGIS Workforce uses the power of location to achieve better coordination and teamwork in your field workforce. Get the right worker to the right place with the right tools to do the right job. Dispatchers use the Workforce web app to create and assign work, monitor progress, and see where workers are in real time. Mobile workers use the Workforce mobile app to work through their personal To Do list and communicate status.

ArcGIS Workforce is included with the field apps in some of the core Esri user types, such as GIS Professional, Creator, and Field Worker, or as an add-on license. See the ArcGIS Workforce page for details on how to install the mobile app. Follow the instructions in Manage licenses to view license details and manage member licenses in the portal.