ArcGIS 10.2 is now shipping… have you had a chance to use it yet? Just yesterday Esri officially announced the update and key functionality including enhanced UI, real time data access and more. Tripp Corbin has penned a few thoughts about this latest release in his latest blog post and looks at some of the new functionality you’ll find in 10.2. New features include:
- Improved performance – ArcGIS Desktop now supports multiple processors/cores with parallel processing
- Improved security – Support Public Key Infrastructure
- 16 new geoprocessing tools including Excel to Table, Table to Excel, Optimized Hot Spot Analysis, Merge Mosaic Dataset Items and more
- Inclusion of Mailing Label Templates with Report Writer
- Portal for ArcGIS – lets you deploy your own version of ArcGIS Online behind your firewall
- Increased number of services and apps with ArcGIS Online
- Data and Map Document Compatibility with ArcGIS 10.1 – no need to back save new geodatabases or map documents to ArcGIS 10.1 versions
- Support for 2013 Version DWG files
From Tripp… For a complete listing of what is new in ArcGIS 10.2 SEE HERE. You might also want to read this blog article which reviews ArcGIS for Desktop 10.2 pre-release version at http://www.appliedspatialintel.com/?p=92.