REDLANDS, Calif. –October 15, 2024 – Esri, the global leader in geographic information system (GIS) technology and location intelligence, and digital utility services provider UDC are pleased to announce UDC’s collaboration on network management implementations with Esri distributor Esri Ireland. Highlights of the implementation include:
- Improved access to specialist utility sector services
- Enhanced support for implementing ArcGIS Utility Network
- Joint project delivery for Northern Ireland Electricity Networks
Esri Ireland, by teaming up with UDC will offer specialist consulting services for Esri Ireland’s utility sector. Through this partnership, gas, electricity, water, and wastewater companies in the nation can access enhanced support when implementing ArcGIS Utility Network, Esri’s next-generation spatial information system for utility network management.
“Several of Esri Ireland’s customers in the utility sector are planning to migrate to ArcGIS Utility Network or have already begun on this journey,” said Paul Synnott, Managing Director of Esri Ireland. “By collaborating with UDC, we are giving our customers easy access to utility sector specialists who can advise them about data migration and help them optimize the benefits they gain from their investment in Esri technology.”
Where appropriate, consultants from UDC will join Esri Ireland projects and work alongside Esri Ireland’s Professional Services Team to deliver agreed-upon outcomes for utility customers. In particular, UDC will provide guidance on best-practice data cleansing and data migration methods and advise customers on how to represent utility assets digitally. Utilities will also be able to take advantage of UDC’s proprietary auto-migration HEIDE tool, which helps accelerate data migration processes.
Esri Ireland and UDC have already worked together on a successful collaboration with Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) Networks. As part of a project team led by Esri Ireland, UDC carried out a Data Readiness Assessment to evaluate the utility’s data quality, highlighted data recommendations, and prepared it for a full data migration. This allowed NIE Networks to quantify the time and resources it will need to migrate data to the new system. The utility is working through the final stages of its pre migration preparations and is on track to launch the full migration and implementation phases in 2025.
UDC has been providing ArcGIS-based solutions and services for utilities in the US and Canada for nearly twenty years. It is a Platinum partner in the Esri Partner Network and holds the Esri Network Management specialty designation focusing on gas and electric utilities services. For organizations that are migrating to ArcGIS Utility Network, UDC delivers services ranging from strategic roadmap guidance to data assessment and migration readiness planning, and full migration support.
“After successfully serving North American utilities for the last 20 years, we now have had the good fortune to cross the Atlantic, forge a strong and growing partnership with Esri Ireland, and work with utilities in Ireland,” said Hamid Akhavan, CEO of UDC. “We are delighted to be working with the fantastic Esri Ireland team, helping more gas, electric, and water utilities achieve maximum benefit through digital transformation leveraging ArcGIS Utility Network.”
About UDC
UDC is a GIS-centric systems integrator focused on supporting the full lifecycle of its clients’ projects and programs from inception through implementation. UDC serves utilities and infrastructure companies globally and provides services and geospatial technology solutions designed to maximize the return on enterprise digital investments.
About Esri
Esri, the global market leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, location intelligence, and mapping, helps customers unlock the full potential of data to improve operational and business results. Founded in 1969 in Redlands, California, USA, Esri software is deployed in hundreds of thousands of organizations globally, including Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, nonprofit institutions, and universities. Esri has regional offices, international distributors, and partners providing local support in over 100 countries on six continents. With its pioneering commitment to geospatial technology and analytics, Esri engineers the most innovative solutions that leverage a geographic approach to solving some of the world’s most complex problems by placing them in the crucial context of location. Visit us at esri.com.