The ArcGIS Enterprise portal is a component of ArcGIS Enterprise that allows you to share maps, scenes, apps, and other geographic information with other people in your organization. The front-end portal is powered by the back-end infrastructure of Portal for ArcGIS. The organization administrator can customize the portal to fit your organization's look and feel.
The ArcGIS Enterprise portal brings together all of your geographic information and shares it throughout your organization. With it, you can:
- Create, save, and share web maps and scenes.
- Create and host web mapping apps.
- Search for GIS content within your organization.
- Create groups to share GIS information with colleagues.
- Share links to GIS apps.
- Share map and layer packages to use in ArcGIS Pro or ArcGIS Desktop.
The ArcGIS Enterprise portal makes GIS accessible for users of all experience levels. Geographic viewers are designed for those who are just beginning with GIS, while experienced GIS users can connect to the portal from ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Desktop, developer APIs, and other applications to use portal content in analysis and mapping workflows.
What do I get with the ArcGIS Enterprise portal?
The ArcGIS Enterprise portal includes the following:
The ArcGIS Enterprise portal website—At the front end of the portal, users sign in to search, use, and share content.
Map Viewer—This app within the portal website allows you to view, design, and save web maps. Think of it as a canvas in which you combine GIS information and services to make your own map. You can save your maps, share them with others, and embed them in apps you create using ArcGIS Configurable Apps templates or ArcGIS Web AppBuilder.
ArcGIS Web AppBuilder—The portal website includes an embedded interactive app for designing and building web applications from your web maps. Applications you create with Web AppBuilder require no programming knowledge and are HTML-based, meaning they work on desktop browsers, tablets, and smartphones without needing a plugin. Web AppBuilder comes with a variety of themes you can customize and widgets that allow you to deliver advanced functionality such as high-quality printing, geoprocessing, editing, and search. To learn more, see What is ArcGIS Web AppBuilder.
Scene Viewer—In the ArcGIS Enterprise portal, the Scene Viewer application is used for viewing 3D geospatial content. Scene Viewer works with desktop web browsers that support WebGL, a web technology standard for rendering 3D graphics.
ArcGIS apps—The ArcGIS Enterprise portal supports user-friendly applications that allow people to interact with web maps and scenes from your portal. For a full list of portal-ready applications, see Common clients of ArcGIS Enterprise.
- ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World content—By default, portals are configured to access ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World content provided by Esri. ArcGIS Living Atlas content is available to portals in connected and disconnected environments; to learn more, see Configure Living Atlas content.
Get started
If you just started using the ArcGIS Enterprise portal, review Get started.