Esri Ireland strengthens utility sector expertise with UDC partnership

• Access improved to specialist utility sector services 
• Support enhanced for implementing ArcGIS Utility Network

• Joint project delivered for Northern Ireland Electricity Networks  

Esri Ireland, the market leader in geographic information system (GIS) technology in Ireland, has teamed up with the digital utility services provider UDC to offer specialist consulting services for Esri Ireland’s utility sector.  Through this partnership, gas, electricity, water and wastewater companies will be able to access enhanced support when implementing ArcGIS Utility Network, Esri’s next generation spatial information system for utility 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,” says 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 optimise 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 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.  

UDC has been providing ArcGIS-based solutions and services for utilities in the USA and Canada for nearly twenty years.  It is a Platinum Partner in the Esri Partner Network programme and holds Esri specialty certifications in gas and electric utilities services.  For organisations that are migrating to ArcGIS Utility Network, it 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,” shares 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 on a global scale and provides services and geospatial technology solutions that are designed to maximise the return on enterprise digital investments.

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