ArcGIS Hub is a cloud-based engagement platform that enables organizations to communicate more effectively with their communities. You can create hub sites to organize and share resources and information, and collaborate with internal and public audiences around a specific project, topic, or goal.
What ArcGIS Hub includes depends on which license you have: ArcGIS Hub Basic or ArcGIS Hub Premium.
ArcGIS Hub Basic with ArcGIS Online
ArcGIS Hub Basic is available with all ArcGIS Online subscriptions. This means that if you have an ArcGIS Online account through your organization (or institution, company, university, and so on), you can start using ArcGIS Hub today.
You can do the following with ArcGIS Hub Basic:
- Create unlimited websites and pages using the site editor.
- Build a catalog of searchable content for each of your sites using the site's content library.
- Work with colleagues (people who also have an ArcGIS Online account in your organization) by adding them to your site’s core team for shared editing.
- Access select templates to deploy a set of configurable sites and apps focused on specific topics and solutions.
- Integrate with ArcGIS Survey123 to share anonymous surveys on your sites and pages.
- Control who can access your site’s content (including specific items) using sharing controls.
ArcGIS Hub Premium
ArcGIS Hub Premium expands on ArcGIS Hub Basic functionality by adding various engagement and collaboration features such as initiatives, projects, discussions, and more:
- Choose a template from the template gallery to get started with predesigned sites and configurable applications.
- Turn your site and its content into a template so that others have access to deployable solutions for their own use.
- Add community members outside of your employee organization, such as students, volunteers, and partners, to work alongside you and your colleagues in working on initiatives and projects, contributing feedback and content, and other activities related to your site.
- Create additional supporting teams to share internal content with specific groups of people, including community members.
- Use the events management system to share details about meetings, forums, and other gatherings related to your site.
- Use Hub projects to track and share information about organized efforts to meet short-term goals.
- Leverage initiatives to measure and share progress towards long-term objectives.
- Use Hub discussions to have private communication based on items of content within groups.
- Create private or public discussion boards to allow participants to share feedback on pre-defined topics.
- Share targeted surveys with specific groups to receive follow-up feedback from event attendees or to gain insight from a specific audience.
Ideas and inspiration
Organizations from many sectors, including government, business, education, and nonprofit, use ArcGIS Hub to connect and communicate with internal and public audiences. The following are examples of how you can use Hub to connect with others:
- Create a data portal for sharing internal GIS data across an organization or with a class.
- Announce proposed plans, projects, and updates relating to a local comprehensive urban plan.
- Showcase content related to a specific topic, such as research to restore local habitats or efforts to increase volunteer work within a community.
- Share a volunteer sign-up form as part of your site on increasing volunteer work within a community.
- Start an outreach campaign with events, surveys, and emails by creating a call-to-action for people to follow your site.
For more examples, see the ArcGIS Hub Gallery.