In utility technology projects, success doesn’t start with the kickoff meeting—it starts much earlier, with a clear understanding of what’s being delivered, why, and how. That’s why scope and expectation…

Starting with ArcGIS Pro 3.4, and now also 3.5, the conda environment that ships with ArcGIS Pro includes the pydantic python package. Pydantic has been my go-to data validation library…

Utilities across the country are facing a perfect storm of challenges in maintaining and modernizing grid infrastructure while dealing with resource constraints. Many utilities report significant difficulties in recruiting and…

For utilities, GIS is no longer just an internal back-office tool…it is a mission-critical system used by field crews, engineers, contractors, and even public safety partners. Since ArcGIS Enterprise is…

In the natural gas industry, emergencies don’t occur during optimal conditions. They happen in the middle of the night, on the weekend, and when it’s freezing cold outside. Whether it's…

On Friday February 28th Esri released the Migration Toolset, this is a pre-release and will be part of 3.5. I was a beta program tester taking this tool for a…

Long before the acronym OCM (or Organizational Change Management) became commonplace, the phrase “Human Factors” was used to describe how changes like a large-scale technology implementation affected the people and…

This may be a strange question considering how much the term is used but I’m not sure it is truly understood. The tech buzz over the last several years has…

After considering the 5 benefit perspectives of OCM discussed in Part I and II of this blog series, the next step is to assign a value to the benefits that…

One common question I get is, “What is the business value of the Utility Network versus what I already have with the Geometric Network?” That is not a simple or…

Last fall foursquare released an open source copy of their places dataset. In the dataset there are over 100 million points, with an ID, the place name, the lat/long, address,…

An important piece of a Utilities’ business is customer driven construction work. Customer driven work can from the commercial or residential space, or even government funded. This type of work…