The ArcGIS Server Geoportal extension (formerly the GIS Portal Toolkit) provides a fully supported, stable platform to build geospatial portals, spatial data infrastructures (SDIs), and metadata catalogs. It gives organizations with diverse and changing geospatial resources located throughout their respective enterprises a means to provide quick access to those resources regardless of the resource location or type.

With the Geoportal extension, you can

  • Support collaboration and cooperation among and across departments and organizations, regardless of GIS platform.
  • Improve GIS efficiency by making it easier to find and use GIS data.
  • Ensure use of approved, high-quality datasets.
  • Gain an enterprise-level awareness of disparate geospatial data, Web services, and activities.
  • Leverage existing geospatial resources rather than duplicate those resources and the effort involved in creating them.
  • Reduce the time it takes to find relevant, usable geospatial resources.