TelUC Bits & Bytes Newsletter - August 2024
News & Updates
Esri Location Data for Telecommunications
Access a global location data portfolio, vetted for accuracy by an expert team of data scientists, demographers, and geographers. Supplement your existing database with quality data variables from authoritative data sources. Ready-to-use datasets include demographics, behavioral and business data, environmental live feeds, places and movement data, high-quality imagery, and frequently updated basemaps. Check out this story map with common location datasets available for telecommunications.
Expand Self-Service Mapping to More Users with ArcGIS for Microsoft 365
With an intuitive, consistent user experience, ArcGIS for Microsoft 365 works with the Microsoft apps you’re already familiar with. Transform data into interactive maps that anyone in your organization can view and understand. Go beyond spreadsheets, charts, and graphs. ArcGIS for Microsoft 365 empowers users to create vivid, interactive maps, painting a fuller picture of what’s happening within your data. Learn more.
How to combine mobile 3D scans with ArcGIS
With the evolution of smartphones, the field of 3D scanning transformed and mobile scans are now at our fingertips. Of course, phones will not replace professional 3D scanners. Their simplicity, however, makes them a powerful alternative when scanning easily accessible and up-to-room-size objects. GPS technology has followed a similar path from expensive devices made for professionals to standard features on smartphones. Today it is possible to use both technologies together, creating georeferenced 3D models in minutes. Learn more.
Reminder: ArcGIS Collector on Windows platform to retire
On Oct 1, 2024, ArcGIS Collector on Windows will be officially retired and no longer supported by Esri.
Collector on Windows will continue to work on mobile devices if already downloaded, but please note that it will not be supported or further enhanced. To provide flexibility during this transition, the Collector app will remain in the Microsoft Store until October 2025. Learn more.
Product Updates:
What's new in ArcGIS StoryMaps (August 2024)
What's New in ArcGIS Monitor 2024.0
ArcGIS Field Maps 24.2.1 release
Recent TGI5s
Meetups & Events
This last month we held the 3rd quarter virtual meetup in which the Esri team covered new updates in ArcGIS. If you didn't get a chance to join this webinar, be sure to watch the recording. Alot of great updates across the ArcGIS system.
Upcoming
Join the the Telecom User Community as the next Carolinas in-person meetup. This event has limited space and requires registration and confirmation. Please note that this in-person meetup for ArcGIS users in the Telecom User Community only. Register today and we'll you see on September 16th.
Excited to announce that the Esri Infrastructure Management & GIS (IMGIS) Conference is just around the corner! This event gathers professionals from diverse industries, all working together to connect communities and enhance our quality of life. Don't miss the chance to be part of this transformative experience. Learn more and register to join us this fall.
Telecom Insights
Leveraging Land and Location Intelligence in Telecommunications
Jack Dangermond, President and Founder of Esri, highlights a fundamental challenge: "A lack of understanding, as well as the failure to collaborate, is a fundamental problem that we’re facing."
Building on this insight, our webinar - hosted by Jim Hodges and the amazing team at Light Reading - explores how integrating land intelligence capabilities within a Digital Twin, using Esri’s ArcGIS, can revolutionize the telecommunications industry and transform decision-making processes and operational efficiencies.
Key topics covered:
- Understanding Land Intelligence Systems: Discover the transformative power of land intelligence in GIS, which overlays various datasets to address industry-specific challenges.
- Comprehensive Data Utilization: Explore the critical datasets used in ArcGIS for land intelligence, including parcel data, geology and soil data, topography, land cover, and demographic and socioeconomic data.
- Integrating OSS and BSS with ArcGIS: Learn how successful organizations unify their Operational Support Systems (OSS) and Business Support Systems (BSS) with ArcGIS to create a single source of truth.
- Empowering Teams Across Departments: Understand how a land intelligence GIS supports optimal site selection, network design optimization, environmental risk assessment, and efficient incident management.
- Strategic Operations and Disaster Preparedness: Gain insights into how GIS aids in comprehensive asset management, market analysis, strategic expansion, and disaster preparedness and recovery. Learn how telecom providers can ensure rapid restoration of services and minimize the impact on customers and infrastructure.
Watch the webinar below.
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