WaterGEMS features full integration with Esri’s ArcGIS software, including ArcView, ArcEdit, and ArcInfo. The following is a description of the functionality available with each of these packages:

• ArcView—ArcView provides the following capabilities:
• Data Access
• Mapping
• Customization
• Spatial Query
• Simple Feature Editing
• ArcView can edit shapefiles and personal geodatabases that contain simple features such as points, lines, polygons, and static annotation. Rules and relationships can not be edited with ArcView.

• ArcEdit—ArcEdit provides all of the capabilities available with ArcView in addition to the following:
• Coverage and geodatabase editing
• ArcEdit can edit shapefiles, coverages, personal geodatabases, and multi-user geodatabases.

• ArcInfo—ArcInfo provides all of the capabilities available with ArcEdit in addition to the following:
• Advanced geoprocessing
• Data conversion
• ArcInfo Workstation
• ArcInfo can edit shapefiles, coverages, personal geodatabases, and multi-user geodatabases.