Cloud computing furnishes technological capabilities – commonly maintained off-premise that are delivered on demand as a service via the Internet. American Sentinel University Professor Gabriel Schmidbauer says cloud computing makes setting up the GIS system simpler, because the system is built into the servers. “Basically, you don’t have to go through the very rigorous process of setting up your own database server, GIS server and then setting up your own GIS system,” says Schmidbauer. “You can pretty much plug in the GIS software into a system out of the cloud that ESRI developed.” Read More
