Discussion:
The city has been a user of a GIS platform called Datalink that was a customized built application from WSB and Associates. Datalink is a mapping and data application that is used heavily by city staff to access property, infrastructure, and other geospatial information. It has been used for several years by Shakopee employees but due to the older infrastructure and recent system improvements with next generation security requirements, Datalink has become unreliable to the point were it is somewhat unusable. It is basically broke and the amount of technology support needed from WSB over the past year with little results has warranted its replacement.
With that said, replacement options have been considered and narrowed down to an ESRI Web GIS Platform. While we currently are a user of this product on a smaller more limited scale, the license agreement will need to be expanded with additional technical support to replace Datalink in its entirety.
The current annual Enterprise Agreement with ESRI is $11,800 and runs from March to March. The expanded license costs will be a total of $35,000 annually (3-year commitment) with an additional one time rollout cost of $14,700 (see attached).
As a cost comparison, another comparable product (LOGIS Map) would have an estimated annual cost of $35,000 to 50,000 with similar rollout costs.