In the ever-changing realm of enterprise Geographic Information Systems (GIS), efficiency is always a top priority. While QGIS has established itself as a leading open-source platform, the necessary features for an enterprise-level deployment of a large-scale geometry editor have not been thoroughly explored, and there isn’t a clear option accepted by the community. With that idea in mind, we began developing Plugineta, which serves as a gateway to enable enterprise-level layer editing through GeoServer within the familiar QGIS environment. This integration empowers users to access powerful layer editing capabilities, including effortlessly managing related layers, such as 1:N relations, and customizing forms.

In addition, by adding the Enterprise Edition Layer Capability, LDAP integration with the GeoServer security framework allows you to manage access to layers without exposing corporate data source credentials to the end user. Users authenticate through corporate login, and custom access policies can be set for layer editing, ensuring that only authorized users can interact with specific layers based on their roles, while keeping sensitive credentials secure.

In this presentation, we will discuss the missing enterprise architecture features in the current landscape and demonstrate how Plugineta addresses these gaps by offering advanced layer editing tools.