Learning ArcGIS Pro

Licensing levels
If you remember from Chapter 1, Introducing ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Pro has three different
licensing levels: Basic, Standard, and Advanced. The license level you have will directly
impact the geoprocessing tools you will have access too.
The Basic level is the most limiting license level with the least amount of geoprocessing
tools. With this level, you will be able to access simple analysis tools such as Buffer,
Union, and Intersect. You will not be able to use tools that allow you to find the closest
feature in another layer or that erase overlapping areas between two or more layers.
The Standard level includes a few more geoprocessing tools in addition to all the ones
available at the Basic level. Many of these are focused on data management and
maintenance. For example, the Standard level includes geoprocessing tools for creating
relationship classes within a geodatabase. Standard also includes tools for managing an
SDE geodatabase, such as tools that allow you to create a new database user or reconcile a
version. More tools for creating and managing topologies and geometric networks will be
added to future releases.
The Advanced license level has the greatest number of geoprocessing tools. It includes all
the tools found in the Basic and Standard licenses plus additional analysis tools. The
Advanced license will allow you to locate the nearest feature to another feature or
calculate the distances between points. It also has tools that allow you to erase areas of
overlap between two or more layer. These are just a couple of examples of analysis tools
you will only find in the Advanced licensing level.
Here is a comparison of the number of geoprocessing tools found in the Basic and
Advanced licensing levels of ArcGIS Pro. The Standard license’s level will fall
somewhere in between these two:
Basic Advanced
Analysis 15 25
Cartography 0 7
Conversion 28 32
Data Management 206 265
Editing 0 12
Geocoding 7 7
Linear Referencing 7 7
Multidimension 8 8
Server 8 8