As Esri continues to develop new applications and enhance existing ones, other products are regularly retired. To inform the ArcGIS user community at Ohio State about planned product retirements, this page includes information about:

 

• Current Retirement Notices (organized by effective date)
• Product Retirements Since Last License Renewal (July 1 each year)

 

Please check this page regularly. We will update it as we become aware of additional product retirement timelines impacting the applications available to Ohio State users through our Esri education institutional agreement.

ArcGIS Community Analyst

Retirement Effective Date: July 1, 2025

 

ArcGIS Community Analyst is being retired and will no longer be available as an ArcGIS Online add-on license as of our July 1, 2025 renewal. Users can migrate their work to the ArcGIS Business Analyst Web App. Ohio State academic users are automatically assigned an add-on license for ArcGIS Business Analyst Web and Mobile Apps through their ArcGIS Online organizational account. For additional information, see this FAQ blog post from Esri that provides more details about deprecation, project migration, and a product functionality comparison.

 

ArcGIS GeoPlanner

Retirement Effective Date: July 1, 2025

 

ArcGIS GeoPlanner is being retired and will no longer be available as an ArcGIS Online add-on license as of our July 1, 2025 renewal. Many GeoPlanner features are available across other ArcGIS applications including ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Urban, and ArcGIS Pro. Users can continue their geodesign workflows in those other applications and are encouraged to read this GeoPlanner retirement announcement from Esri for additional details.

 

Classic Esri Story Maps

Retirement Effective Date: Q1 2026

 

The template-based application known as Classic Esri Story Maps will be retired from ArcGIS Online in Q1 2026. After this date, the Classic Esri Story Maps templates will no longer be available, and stories built with Classic Esri Story Maps templates will no longer be accessible via their previous URLs. For more details, see this Classic Esri Story Maps retirement announcement.

 

Please note this change does not impact the newer ArcGIS StoryMaps application or any stories created with it. Authors who created stories with the Classic Esri Story Maps templates are encouraged to recreate those stories using the ArcGIS StoryMaps builder if they would like them to remain accessible after Q1 2026. See here for more information about recreating and/or archiving Classic Esri Story Maps content.

 

Map Viewer Classic

Retirement Effective Date: Q1 2026

 

Map Viewer Classic is being retired and will no longer be available in ArcGIS Online as of the Q1 2026 update. For more information, see this Map Viewer Classic Deprecation article. The newer Map Viewer is the default option for Ohio State's ArcGIS Online organization, and users can learn more about using the default Map Viewer in this Map Viewer help documentation.

 

ArcGIS Web AppBuilder

Retirement Effective Date: Q1 2026

 

ArcGIS Web AppBuilder is being retired from ArcGIS Online in Q1 2026. Users are encouraged to migrate their applications to ArcGIS Experience Builder, which remains available through Ohio State's ArcGIS Online organization. For additional information about the Web AppBuilder retirement, the impact on existing apps, and the migration process, see this Web AppBuilder retirement article from Esri.

ArcGIS Desktop (ArcMap)

Retirement Effective Date: July 1, 2024

 

ArcGIS Desktop (ArcMap) is Esri's legacy desktop GIS application. ArcMap entered Mature Support in March 2024, and was retired from our education institutional agreement as of our July 1, 2024 license renewal. With ArcMap no longer available through our educational license, we recommend that users migrate to ArcGIS Pro for their desktop GIS needs. Review Esri's documentation on Migrating from ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro for additional resources, and see the ArcGIS Pro page on this guide for information about using ArcGIS Pro at Ohio State.