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ArcGIS Software Access

This guide describes SU's ArcGIS license and how to access Esri's ArcGIS products from on and off campus. Plus some FAQs about managing your account.

ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online

Extensions included as part of the Professional Plus user type: list updated April 2025

  1. 3-D Analyst - visualizing your information in 3D
  2. Business Analyst - for market planning, site selection, and customer segment analysis
  3. Data Reviewer - automates, simplifies, and improves data quality control workflows to enable the delivery of geospatial data
  4. Geostatistical Analyst - Compare and better interpret geostatistical results to predict and model spatial phenomena
  5. Image Analyst - for advanced image interpretation, exploitation, and geospatial analysis
  6. LocateXT - this is entity extraction software for analysis of unstructured data
  7. Network Analyst - used for developing strategic routing plans
  8. Publisher - Transform projects into portable digital maps and datasets to share with others
  9. Spatial Analyst - an advanced spatial modeling and analysis tool to help model terrains, find suitable locations,routes or discover spatial patterns.
  10. Workflow Manager - streamlines production processes by automating and simplifying the performance and management of work across an organization

Also the following extensions are added to the user type:

  1. Data Interoperability (ask for software) - ability to move data among hundreds of systems and apps across the boundaries of geography, format, storage technology, and connectivity (delivers geospatial integration to all your systems)
  2. StreetMap Premium (ask for software) - provides offline, enriched street data for use in ArcGIS software
  3. Bathymetry - (ask for software) enables quick generation of custom bathymetric surfaces through targeted data selection

Apps included in ArcGIS Online

  1. ArcGIS Business Analyst Web and Mobile Apps
  2. ArcGIS City Engine
  3. ArcGIS Community Analyst
  4. ArcGIS Dashboard
  5. ArcGIS Data Pipelines
  6. ArcGIS Drone2Maps Standard
  7. ArcGIS Earth
  8. ArcGIS Excalibur (Beta)
  9. ArcGIS Experience Builder
  10. ArcGIS Field Maps Designer
  11. ArcGIS Flight
  12. ArcGIS GeoBIM
  13. ArcGIS Hub Basic
  14. ArcGIS Image Analysis
  15. ArcGIS Image for ArcGIS Online
  16. ArcGIS Image Hosting
  17. ArcGIS Insights
  18. ArcGIS Instant Apps
  19. ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World (Online only)
  20. ArcGIS Location Sharing
  21. ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud
  22. ArcGIS Notebooks
  23. ArcGIS QuickCapture Web Designer
  24. ArcGIS Runtime Advanced
  25. ArcGIS Solutions
  26. ArcGIS Urban
  27. ArcGIS Web AppBuilder
  28. ArcGIS Web Editor
  29. Configurable Apps
  30. Esri Redistricting
  31. Map Viewer
  32. MadelBuilder
  33. Scene Viewer

MS Office Apps

  1. ArcGIS for Excel
  2. ArcGIS for Power BI
  3. ArcGIS for SharePoint
  4. ArcGIS for Teams

Field Apps

  1. ArcGIS Collector
  2. ArcGIS Field Maps
  3. ArcGIS QuickCapture
  4. ArcGIS Survey123
  5. ArcGIS Workforce

ArcGIS StoryMaps

StoryMaps can be used for classroom and personal purposes and can also be integrated with both ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online.

There are two ways to sign in to use StoryMaps.

  1. The first is through SU's StoryMaps site. Once logged in click on the, sign In through the "ArcGIS StoryMaps" button.
  2. The second way to access StoryMaps is to login through your ArcGIS Online account. Click on the series of 9 dots in the upper right-hand corner and click on the StoryMaps Icon.

Esri Academy

If you are logging through SU's ArcGIS organization's URL Type "syruniv" into the box, without the quotes.

The Esri Academy is available through SU's site license where you can take any number of FREE courses, webinars or recorded classes. To see a list go to the "CATALOG" tab on the top row and then mouse over to the “Course Catalog” and make sure to click the two check boxes that say “Maintenance Subscription” and "Free" . This will allow you to access many more FREE courses available to you through our license.

Then search for classes you want to take. Add the ones you want to your “wish list” by clicking on the little heart next to the course title.

Click on “My Academy” and then “My Wish List” to get to the courses you have saved or are in the process of taking.

Look on the "RESOURCES" tab on the left for courses to start learning ArcGIS Pro, Online and StoryMaps.