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AI chat on the map is only as good as the data underneath it.
Ask a question of a network with bad connectivity, missing attributes, or stale as-builts, and you get a confident wrong answer faster than before.
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Learn what it takes to make your Utility Network actually perform and pay off.
Join Chris Sanders on Tuesday, October 27 at 5:30 pm in booth 105 at IMGIS for a live presentation on how to get real value from your Utility Network.
FULL DETAILS HERE:
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Two chances to catch David Miller's presentation at IMGIS!
Does migrating to Utility Network feel out of reach? Attend this session!
Tuesday, October 27 at 3:30 PM, Booth 105
Wednesday, October 28 at 12:00 PM, Smoketree C
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Phil Dunn compares on-premises, cloud, and hybrid ArcGIS Enterprise deployments at IMGIS. Real integration impact, not a feature chart.
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Manual switching plans used to take days to update in GIS. With the Utility Network, crews model, validate, and post changes in minutes — a measurable shift in productivity and reliability. Read how they did it: bit.ly/45n3OBY
You’ve completed your Utility Network migration, but performance hasn’t improved.
Go-live is just the beginning. At IMGIS, Chris Sanders will share what it takes to get the most out of your Utility Network.
Tuesday, October 27 at 5:30 PM. Booth 105.
Your operations team has a question about the network. How long before they get an answer?
At IMGIS, Clarke Wiley demos Esri’s ArcGIS Data Explorer live on a sample utility network. Plain language questions. Results on the map, right away.
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Dave DiSera, on why so many utility digital twin projects stall:
"Utilities are pressured to modernize while managing constrained budgets and fragmented data. You can't deliver a return on that investment without alignment across people, process, governance, data, & technology."
Read his full breakdown of the four OT/IT maturity levels and what it takes to move up:
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Stop calling data cleanup a project.
Cleanup projects fail to win budget debates, but projects that create assets get funding.
The same project, presented in a different light and funded through a different route.
We've got a guide: bit.ly/45GAc3h
We're heading to Palm Springs. The SSP team will be a Gold Sponsor of Esri IMGIS 2026, October 27-29, at Booth 105. Stop by to talk with our team about Utility Network, GIS strategy, and managed services. bit.ly/4uMkn5h
Join us tomorrow for a live panel with three utility GIS teams to discuss their migration to Utility Network.
They will be taking questions on cost, timeline, data readiness, internal buy-in, and what changes after go-live.
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Any data that is associated with a physical asset and which produces a verifiable record having a defensible link to capital activity should be included in the capital budget.
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Do we need outside help, or can we handle parts ourselves?
A very common question a utility GIS manager asks before a Utility Network migration.
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Digital twins are not launched in a completed state; instead, they go through three phases.
Most electric utilities are still aiming to reach Phase 2, and the first step is to improve OT/IT maturity, not introduce new software.
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Most Utility Network migration advice comes from people who have never had to fund one.
Three utility GIS teams answer questions live on September 23. One is building the business case. One is mid-migration. One is already through.
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Twenty-seven percent of staff time is spent on correcting bad data.
Gartner states that the average annual cost of poor data quality amounts to $12.9 million per organization.
Both numbers miss the downstream costs utilities absorb every week:
- Crews dispatched to the wrong location.
- Asset risk nobody sizes accurately
- Regulatory reporting no one wants to defend
American electric utilities spend about $100 billion each year on O&M. GIS data is only a small part of a budget that regulators are working to reduce.
The fact that more O&M funding is not the solution; reclassifying the work is.
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Most GIS data work gets funded as O&M, not because O&M is where the work belongs. Because nobody made the case for anywhere else.
SSP Innovations and PG Partners wrote the guide on where the work belongs and how to fund it there.
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