What does the Esri utilities upgrade mean for your business?

What does the Esri utilities upgrade mean for your business?

Author: NGIS Australia March 3, 2022 Duration: 35:44

In this week’s episode we are excited to welcome two colleagues from our new Brisbane office onto the Location Matters podcast to talk about the Esri ArcGIS utilities upgrade. Alex Geer, NGIS Queensland General Manager, and Conway Pene, Principal GIS Consultant have worked on many utilities GIS projects and give us some insight into what this Esri upgrade will mean for utility companies, what the process looks like and some of the roadblocks they might face.

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