The City of Troutdale, Oregon does a lot with a little. A one-person GIS shop with some focused support from an IT Manager provide an array of GIS services to various city departments, end-users, and the public.

Navigating the periodic need for Esri system upgrades, server patching, troubleshooting performance issues, and ensuring the safety, security, and redundancy of valuable geospatial data all provided ongoing sources of anxiety to the GIS/IT team. And yet, they weren’t sure whether they would qualify as candidates for a cloud managed GIS platform, or whether such a solution might pencil out from a financial point of view.

The city reached out to our team initially to work with them on an upgrade to their ArcGIS Enterprise setup, but collaborating on that effort gave us the opportunity to discuss what other options and configurations might help appease some of their pain points. This led to a focused project on assessing the viability of deploying the city’s full GIS platform in the cloud and a cost/benefit analysis of how managed care and support of the cloud system might work out. They were pleasantly surprised by our findings and decided to push “Go!”

We have recently completed a full migration of the city’s impressively large portfolio of ArcGIS services, apps, maps, dashboards, and other resources to solid, high performance set of environments in AWS. Performance = check! Redundancy = check! Better sleep and less worry for GIS and IT = check!

Are you on the ledge? Losing sleep worrying over systems that you don’t sufficiently understand or want to have to worry about? Reach out for some civic therapy! We got you!