What kinds of data does ArcGIS work with?

ArcGIS is an enterprise spatial data management system. Organizations are working with more spatial data than ever — tied to assets, infrastructure, customers, and operations. ArcGIS unifies this data for easy access, integration, analysis, and sharing across the enterprise. This knowledge base article provides information on the types of data formats and storage options supported in ArcGIS today.

ArcGIS Pro

• Databases and ArcGIS
• Feature classes
• Introduction to image and raster data
• Supported data types and items from ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise
• Work with OLE DB connections
• Connect to any data store using the ArcGIS Pro SDK (plug-in data sources)

ArcGIS Online

• What can you add to ArcGIS Online?
• ArcGIS Data Pipelines: Connect to your data
• Supported data for analysis tools in Map Viewer

ArcGIS Enterprise

• Introduction to data storage in ArcGIS Enterprise
• Content you can add in the ArcGIS Enterprise portal
• User-managed data stores in ArcGIS Enterprise
• ArcGIS Architecture Center: Data (persistence)
• Introduction to ArcGIS Data Pipelines in ArcGIS Enterprise
• Connect to any data source using the ArcGIS Enterprise SDK (custom data feeds)

ArcGIS Data Interoperability extension

• Supported formats with the Data Interoperability extension