Does it seem that an unbridgeable divide exists between business units and IT within your utility? Are there significant differences in opinion between IT and business when it comes to…

Utilities are exploring how AI can be used for preventative maintenance, strategic capital planning, source data extraction, and load forecasting. Now more than ever, utilities want to understand the dynamic…

As utilities continue to modernize GIS, many are preparing to migrate to Esri’s Utility Network, a comprehensive data model designed to support the complex connectivity, topology, and data integrity needs…

Is your GIS viewed as a critical system in your utility?  Sure, if it went down for a day, people would yell about it. But would operations grind to a…

ArcGIS Data Pipelines is a service that’s currently available with an ArcGIS Online  (AGOL) subscription and will be released for ArcGIS Enterprise beginning in version 12.0.  The 12.0 Enterprise version…

There are always new ways for utilities to identify the best solutions for getting the most out of their GIS. In this context, it is widely known that many utilities…

The Utility Network shouldn’t require your editors to relearn everything. Our geo-coincident (snap-based) approach keeps familiar GN-style editing intact and delivers full UN behavior like phase propagation and per-phase operability.

In our first article of this series published last month we covered the basics of ESRI versioning including how adds, deletes, and updates are managed within the versioned geodatabase. We…

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…