NHS Information Services Division shows how data can help save lives
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NHS Information Services Division shows how data can help save lives
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North Ayrshire Council transforms grounds maintenance processes
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In creating a standardised process for scheduling grounds maintenance works, North Ayrshire Council has improved its efficiency and responsiveness to urgent issues.
Read MoreScottish Water empowers employees enterprise-wide
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Scottish Water empowers employees enterprise-wide
Read MoreWood Mackenzie drives innovation through collaboration
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By setting up a single centre of GIS expertise and encouraging data sharing, Wood Mackenzie is helping all businesses in the Verisk group to gain valuable new intelligence about global markets and implement innovative new solutions to improve client services.
Read MoreScottish Water empowers staff with bespoke ArcGIS training
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Esri UK has delivered on-site training and eLearning resources to help 1200 employees transition confidently to ArcGIS from a legacy GIS and make optimal use of the new solution in their jobs.
Read MoreNorthern Ireland Water engages in a GIS-led business transformation
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A water utility serving 1.8 million people has created a single corporate GIS and is leveraging this platform to transform its customer services, business efficiency and service delivery.
Read MoreForestry Commission Scotland improves its management of a diverse estate
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Forestry Commission Scotland is using ArcGIS mobile and online tools to accelerate building surveys and provide senior managers with instant insight into the cost and criticality of repairs.
Read MoreSouth Lanarkshire Council highlights the importance of clean air
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A Scottish local authority has created an interactive online Story Map to raise public awareness of air pollution, and encourage citizens to make lifestyle changes to help improve air quality.
Read MoreNewly launched Geollect app protects shipping from piracy
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One of Esri UK’s start-up partners, Geollect, has created an ArcGIS Online app that improves understanding of maritime risks and helps ship owners to reduce their operational costs.
In many parts of the world, commercial ships and yachts face significant risks ranging from armed attacks by pirates and thefts at sea, to an above average chance of crew injuries in certain ports. Geollect has developed an app that clearly indicates which risks are highest in which locations, giving ship owners the more precise information they need to plan safer journeys.
Read MoreScottish National Park Authority Conserves Spectacular Natural Landscape
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The Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park Authority has transformed the way that staff and volunteers record data outdoors, using a suite of mobile GIS apps. The authority can now monitor its conservation activities more successfully and make faster interventions to enhance one of the most environmentally significant and scenic regions of Scotland.
Read MoreFera Science Conveys Scientific Evidence to Decision Makers
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The agri-food research company Fera Science, renowned for original thinking that can be applied in the field, has developed a GIS-based web app to help its clients respond to the challenges of population growth, pollution and climate change. The app presents high resolution imagery from an Unmanned Aerial System, enabling decision makers to more easily identify ways to protect natural resources and food security.
Read MoreThe Young Generation Driving GIS Innovation
/Within both public sector and commercial organisations across the UK, young professionals are combining their passion for GIS with astute problem-solving skills and creativity to invent game-changing GIS apps.
Read MoreGIS Empowers Community Engagement
/One of the most contested categories in this year’s Customer Success Awards was Community Engagement; unsurprisingly so when you consider how Geography can serve as a starting point for building a community engagement strategy.
Read MoreThe 2017 Customer Success Awards – congratulations to our five worthy winners!
/On Tuesday 16th May I was the host of this year’s Customer Success Awards at Esri UK’s 2017 Annual Conference. Having been involved with the judging since the outset, I felt exceptionally proud of the very credible submissions we received from the broadest spectrum of GIS users.
Read MoreOperational Intelligence in Water Utilities
/Leading Water and other Utilities are constantly innovating to optimise their operations and improve customer service. The latest advances in technology are enabling these initiatives and leading to an emerging ‘Operation Intelligence’ approach, driven in particular by a technology called Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
Read MoreWhy the telecoms industry must get a grip on the Internet of Things
/Establishing a solid telecoms network that can cope with the capacity and coverage required to power the Internet of Things (IoT) is a serious challenge telecoms companies need to address within the next 12 months if they are to keep pace with the rapid evolution of digital technologies.
Read MoreDelivering Operational Intelligence
/When I ran an operations division for a utility, one of my favourite employees was a guy named Stanley. Stanley started as a field worker, became a foreman, was promoted to supervisor, and advanced to regional crew manager. I remember how he worked, which largely explained his rapid ascent to management.
Read MoreHow GIS is starting to underpin successful BIM strategies
/While BIM (Building Information Modelling) has been around for a decade or more, legislation has recently been introduced in the UK which compels organisations wishing to tender for government construction contracts to use a BIM process to record, store and exchange digital packages in which spatial context is significant.
Read MoreUnique Digital breaks new ground in audience-targeted marketing
/A creative digital marketing agency in London is using GIS to successfully focus its marketing activities on specific target audiences. It employs Esri’s ArcGIS platform in the planning, auditing and evaluation phases of its campaigns to deliver the optimum return on marketing investment for its clients.
Read MoreEverything starts with a base map
/Sovereign Housing has been working hard to place GIS into the hands of over 500 members of staff, a strategy that led to it winning the Esri UK Customer Success Award for ‘Cartography is for Everyone’ this year. Andrew Bradley, Strategic Insight Manager at Sovereign Housing, outlines how skillful cartography helped it win.
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