Hi Dalinda,
Another great question! We aren’t able to tell how much of our users are mixing traditional desktop tools with GeoAnalytics tools. But, I can give you some general best practice guidelines and recommendations of when to use a mix of regular Pro GP tools and GeoAnalytics tools.
When we run GeoAnalytics tools with regular desktop tools (talking about Pro specifically here) we mostly do it in the following scenarios:
- When we start using GeoAnalytics and use it to summarize, aggregate or analyze the data so that it becomes a more manageable size. Then we chain Pro tools on using the smaller, more manageable result.
- When we’re analyzing data that’s of a size we could analyze with Pro tools, but we’re hoping to take advantage of capabilities only available in GeoAnalytics (like time steps in Aggregate Points, tools unique to GeoAnalytics, accessing data in a big data file share).
Let me know if you have any more questions on a specific use case or workflow. With more details on the type of data, data location and planned analysis, I can help figure out the best place to stage your data, and recommend how to take the most advantage of analysis on ArcGIS Enterprise.
Sarah Ambrose
Product Engineer, GeoAnalytics Team