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Here’s a one-stop shop of opinion pieces, information, and updates on GIS- and ArcGIS-related topics to inform, update and engage you.

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The finding that shows up in nearly every ArcGIS security review

Shared administrative accounts remain a common ArcGIS security weakness, often due to embedded dependencies. Addressing them improves accountability, auditability and long-term security resilience.
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Who owns the controls when your spatial service is managed by someone else?

Vendor-managed spatial services often stall accreditation when control ownership, accountability and evidence responsibilities remain undefined across agencies, providers and shared environments.
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Is the Essential Eight still worth doing for your ArcGIS environment?

As ASD transitions to the Essentials series, Essential Eight security work remains relevant. ArcGIS organisations should continue strengthening security, building on existing investments rather than pausing.

Supporting business-as-usual GIS with best practice methods

The Onneer team provided specialised support for the National Capital Authority with Onneer's staff augmentation service. Helping NCA continue their GIS operations, build capability, and helped the NCA team better engage with their GIS system.

Capability to Cloud in under 5 months

Onneer supported a large federal government client through a complex GIS migration to the Azure cloud in under 5 months. Leveraging industry best practices and Onneer's deep understanding of the ArcGIS system to efficiently support this complex migration.

Quality assurance for disparate teams

Sweet for ArcGIS helped Biosis better manage their field collection operations, leveraging predefined topology rules to ensure data is accurate at point of entry.

Onneer Wins 2025 Esri Implementing ArcGIS Award

Onneer receives the Implementing ArcGIS award, for large-scale ArcGIS system implementation for a customer using multiple ArcGIS products at the Esri Partner Conference for Exceptional Achievement.

GIS learning for dynamic teams

Onneer Learning Services for Department of Defence. The Department of Defence engaged Onneer to address a GIS training challenge—ensuring their team could apply GIS knowledge within their business context while maintaining expertise across a dynamic workforce.
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ArcGIS Monitor: Enhancing GIS administration for the Digital Atlas of Australia

Onneer has many useful tools in its ArcGIS toolbox and ArcGIS Monitor is counted as an essential component of the arsenal. Read this article to learn how ArcGIS Monitor continues to be applied to the Digital Atlas of Australia to help identify problems and help develop timely information on system performance, resource utilisation and more.
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8 tips to get your GIS solutions over the line with ArcGIS

When you’re given a GIS project without enough scope, information or time, you’re going to want to look at these easy-peasy tips to get you through. Enjoy these 8 tips to get your GIS solutions over the line with Esri’s ArcGIS.
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How Sweet for ArcGIS can help your organisation’s GIS

From optimising resources, to increasing productivity, here are some insights about how Sweet for ArcGIS might just be able to enhance an organisation's geographic information system.
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How to bridge knowledge gaps and create common understanding

GIS is an industry that intersects so many fields. Coupled with the diversity, wealth of experiences and many perspectives that individuals bring, it makes GIS an exciting space to work. But it can also make it difficult when it comes to knowledge gaps. This blog is a Tech Talk that was presented at this year’s Locate conference and focuses on the opportunity that knowledge gaps create within our organisations. It talks about taking advantage of knowledge gaps through the implementation of models as a key communication tool.