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What is ArcGIS for Office?

Make maps in Microsoft Excel and further the power of ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise. ArcGIS Maps for Office puts Excel data in the context of location. Use location intelligence to transform your graphs and charts into interactive maps directly in Microsoft Excel to see data from another perspective. Then, use Microsoft PowerPoint to share your map.

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Product Description

ArcGIS for Office gives you the power to ask location-related questions of your data, get new insights, and make smarter decisions.


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Esri
Year Founded
1969
HQ Location
Redlands, CA
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190,685 Twitter followers
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Description

Esri is the global market leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, location intelligence, and mapping. Since 1969, we have supported customers with geographic science and geospatial analytics, what we call The Science of Where. We take a geographic approach to problem-solving, brought to life by modern GIS technology.


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David K.
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David K.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"ArcGIS Maps of Office turns your XLS into a Web GIS"
The ability to manage content in a xls for many people is an easy-to-use alternative to other technologies. The added ability to map the content a...
Verified User
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Nice software"
Easy connection and map mapping in general.
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
2.0 out of 5
"Needs updating "
It is useful and works with my companies' portal, so I can bring maps into Excel.

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David K.
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What do you like best about ArcGIS for Office?

The ability to manage content in a xls for many people is an easy-to-use alternative to other technologies. The added ability to map the content and share with others as a web map/app is a great asset. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ArcGIS for Office?

The ability to manage additional information or new information added to an existing xls can be difficult at times, resulting in the users creating a new map instead of updating the current xls. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ArcGIS for Office:

Is it a great method for spatially visualizing your xls data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ArcGIS for Office solving and how is that benefiting you?

Allowing users who are familiar with xls but not necessarily ArcGIS to create informative web map. The benefits realized is the ability to add a spatial component to traditional spreadhseets Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ArcGIS for Office?

It is useful and works with my companies' portal, so I can bring maps into Excel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ArcGIS for Office?

Unlike many of ESRIs other products, it doesn't seem to get as much attention and updating of features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ArcGIS for Office:

Update it and add more features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ArcGIS for Office solving and how is that benefiting you?

I want a way to create graphs using information for the maps, or using information in graphical form to show spatially where the area is. Like being able to compare two different things in one area that you can't really do on a map. Expand data visualization using maps and graphs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ArcGIS for Office?

What I like the most since I am using it is that it allows us to discover patterns and trends that are not evident in the tabular graphs and data. Maps can be shared immediately through PowerPoint presentations or through publication on the Esri cartographic representation platform, ArcGIS Online. Esri's Excel Mapping program differs from many of the current Excel mapping plug-ins, since it is one of the only ones that allows the mapping of custom regions. Instead of being limited to the standard limits of countries and individual states, custom regions can be linked to the corresponding data in the spreadsheet through GIS data uploaded through ArcGIS Online. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ArcGIS for Office?

Maybe the time to learn to work if you do not have a basic knowledge previously, but still esri has a free online seminar to learn how to use Esri Maps for Office (a global ESRI account is required, registration is free) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Basic familiarity with Excel and PowerPoint and a basic understanding of geospatial data is helpful too Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ArcGIS for Office solving and how is that benefiting you?

A more impressive presentation in PowerPoint! Both the static maps (images captured from the assigned data) and the interactive maps (the zoom, panning and information pop-up windows) can be seen not only in Excel but also in other Office products, such as PowerPoint. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ArcGIS for Office?

Easy connection and map mapping in general. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ArcGIS for Office?

Icon disappearing. Not easy to find data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ArcGIS for Office solving and how is that benefiting you?

Icons disappearing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ArcGIS for Office?

Gecoding to custom geomerty is absolutely fanstastic for local government users who are using systems based on identifiers other then standard addresses, like parcels. The ability to geocode to an open data parcel dataset is a real world use of open data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ArcGIS for Office?

The default naming of feature layers, but that is very miminally disruptive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ArcGIS for Office:

This is an excellent tool to unlock lots of older data stored in spreadsheets and for business systems that use .csv and .txt as data export format. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ArcGIS for Office solving and how is that benefiting you?

The primary problem ArcGIS Maps for Office solves is the visualizaitn of data stored by in existing business systems. By creating custom geocoding services from parcel open data, consultants like myself can show the value of open data with a real world use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ArcGIS for Office?

The ideas of ArcGIS for Office is great but the learning curve is steep. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ArcGIS for Office?

The program is non-intuitive and w/o previous experience, it's not easy to navigate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ArcGIS for Office solving and how is that benefiting you?

mapping locations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ArcGIS for Office?

I like that this product gives me the ability to create custom maps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ArcGIS for Office?

I wish some of the categories were more precise. For examples self-storage facilities bring up moving company that may offer some type of storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ArcGIS for Office solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allows us to utilize the 3 ring map which is useful when pulling demographics from the maps. It assists with market analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ArcGIS for Office?

I love the ease of getting data displayed without having to open an ESRI app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ArcGIS for Office?

Sometimes the tab disappears in updates or is unavailable making it hard to locate/follow what happened. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ArcGIS for Office:

Making the installation/add-in process easier allowing more users to use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ArcGIS for Office solving and how is that benefiting you?

Giving non-GIS users the ability to create maps and layers that get their data in a better drawn environment, with the ability to update data as needed. Saving me, the GIS guy, the pain and hassle of following up or having to do it all myself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
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What do you like best about ArcGIS for Office?

ArcGIS Maps for Office is easy to learn yet incredibly powerful. I love how granular you can get with the data as well as the ease of importing and exporting files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ArcGIS for Office?

My only complaint would be that the graphics are still not the greatest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ArcGIS for Office:

Do it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ArcGIS for Office solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used ArcGIS Maps for Office to a variety of marketing data analytics services. One of our most common uses was turning survey data into visual maps to help our clients better understand their customers. We have found that it has been extremely beneficial in analyzing existing customers to predict where to target new customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ArcGIS for Office?

I like that we can create useful maps from GIS and CAD data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ArcGIS for Office?

Sometimes the ease of functionality for data input could work better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ArcGIS for Office:

This is a good program for data mapping. Utilizing good templates is a necessary component. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ArcGIS for Office solving and how is that benefiting you?

We create images for design reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.