Once you've published your map service to a GIS server, it will be available to clients both locally and on the web. Because of the many capabilities the map service exposes, it can be used in a variety of Esri and third-party client applications. These include ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS API for JavaScript, ArcGIS Earth, ArcGIS Desktop, Google Earth, OGC, and AutoCAD applications.
Esri client applications
ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise applications
You can use Map Viewer in ArcGIS Enterprise or ArcGIS Online to build and share web maps and apps that work with the map services hosted on your ArcGIS Server site. Additionally, you can leverage the variety of available basemaps, data, and applications such as preconfigured templates or Web AppBuilder to share your content. To learn more, see Create maps and apps
ArcGIS Desktop applications
- ArcMap
- ArcGIS Pro
ArcGIS Maps for Office
ArcGIS Maps for Office provides mapping capabilities in Microsoft Office through a Microsoft add-in. You can use this add-in with Microsoft Office components to create maps that reference, display, and interact with map services residing on your GIS Server. You can download ArcGIS Maps for Office from the Esri website.
ArcGIS Maps for SharePoint
ArcGIS Maps for SharePoint offers interactive and configurable mapping components that can give you a geospatial view of your organization's data. ArcGIS Maps for SharePoint includes a Web Map Part component, which allows you to reference, display, and interact with map services residing on your GIS server.
For more information, see Introduction to ArcGIS Maps for SharePoint.
ArcGIS Earth
ArcGIS Earth allows you to explore terrains, oceans and mountains anywhere in the world, visualizing your data in 3D on the globe. ArcGIS Earth works with a variety of 2D and 3D map data formats to display data, create sketches, measure distances and areas, and add annotations to tell your story.
Explorer for ArcGIS
Explorer for ArcGIS lets everyone in your organization find, analyze, and share map services on their devices. You can visualize data, search for places and features on your maps, sketch on the maps to highlight important features, share maps with other Explorer users, and tell stories with interactive map presentations.
ArcGIS API for JavaScript applications
The ArcGIS API for JavaScript can help you build Internet applications that use your map services. The ArcGIS API is fully documented with conceptual help, samples, and API reference topics to help you become more comfortable programming. See the ArcGIS API for JavaScript home page for more information.
ArcGIS Runtime SDKs
Developers use the ArcGIS Runtime SDK to build and deploy native applications to a variety of popular platforms and devices. See the ArcGIS for Developer's site for details.
Third-party client applications
- Google Earth (as KML)
- Web Coverage Service client applications (as OGC WCS)
- Web Feature Service client applications (as OGC WFS)
- Web Map Service client applications (as OGC WMS)
- Web Map Tile Service client applications (as OGC WMTS)
- Web Processing Service client applications (as OGC WPS)
- AutoCAD (as ArcGIS for AutoCAD plug-in application)