Enterprise GIS application provides broad access to geospatial data/services across client’s departments thereby enabling location intelligence within the organization. It is an architecture that integrates geospatial data and services and shares them across the organization. It provides interface for multiuser access to both spatial and non-spatial data
It can also be viewed as an infrastructure that extends and enables existing enterprise systems using geospatial data and services. The basic idea of an enterprise GIS is to address the needs of departments collectively instead of individually. The development of one comprehensive infrastructure minimizes potential conflicts and misunderstandings and can result in significant cost savings and performance improvements. It is also important to manage the spatial data in Enterprise GIS. For these purposes, we have the relational database systems such as Geodatabase, SDE Layer that has security, multiple concurrent user access, spatial indexers that help in providing an Enterprise feature.