2025 WA GIS Conference

The King County IT GIS Center supports thousands of GIS users across 17 different county departments. To help track Esri user licenses, understand user activity, and support the transition from ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro, the GIS Center built the GIS License Manager application. This custom application was built using some code and does neat stuff, ties into users’ Microsoft Entra ID accounts, and reports usage for individual users down to the minute.

In addition to granular reporting, the data from this application has been aggregated into a hosted table in ArcGIS Online and used to display platform usage over time in two ArcGIS Online dashboards. These insights help the GIS Center leadership, GIS managers, and users understand what platforms are in use, and what teams might need additional help transitioning from ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro.

Join us as we discuss the technical details behind building the GIS License Manager application and obtaining usage minutes from ArcMap, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Pro, and ArcGIS Enterprise. We’ll also go into detail about the creation of the aggregated data dashboards using ArcGIS Online Dashboards, Arcade data expressions, and Experience Builder for display on our King County State of GIS Hub Site. https://state-of-gis.kingcounty.gov/pages/gislm