PwC and Esri expand geospatial AI alliance

PwC becomes the first organization to join Esri's Platinum Systems Integrator tier, deepening a collaboration focused on AI-powered location intelligence for energy and infrastructure organizations.

NEW YORK - PwC and Esri today announced an expanded alliance to bring geospatial insights to the intelligent enterprise, helping energy and infrastructure organizations connect strategy, operations, and technology through AI and rich location intelligence. As part of this new collaboration, PwC becomes the first of a small group of select system integrators (SI) that have demonstrated sustained excellence in GIS implementation and client delivery to collaborate with Esri at the highest levels of both business and technology engagements.

The designation reflects PwC's deep systems integration expertise and its commitment to scaling AI solutions that geo-enable the intelligent enterprise, with a focused emphasis on the energy and infrastructure markets. The Esri Partner Network (EPN) helps customers around the world utilize the benefits of the ArcGIS enterprise platform to enhance their planning, design and operations with location intelligence. For over 50 years, the Esri Partner Network has supported users with business solutions, implementation services, and dynamic content by leveraging GIS technology across industries-and PwC's expanded strategic alliance with Esri reflects a shared focus on expanding the future value of GIS for energy and infrastructure organizations.

"Esri is excited to collaborate with PwC as the first premier SI to enter into this new level of strategic relationship. We are proud to recognize PwC's commitment to advancing the impact of ArcGIS, and we look forward to deepening our collaboration to bring AI and geospatial capabilities to the intelligent enterprise for our mutual customers across energy and infrastructure. We see this as an important step in scaling the impact of GIS to more of the world's most pressing challenges."

Bringing AI development expertise to the GIS industry

PwC is bringing its AI development capabilities to the GIS industry, building and deploying AI-enabled solutions on top of ArcGIS to help clients extract more value from spatial data and scale intelligent decision-making across the enterprise. The Platinum designation reflects PwC's commitment to scaling these AI geospatial solutions as a core part of how it helps clients geo-enable the intelligent enterprise.

Geo-enabling the intelligent enterprise for energy and infrastructure sectors

PwC and Esri are helping energy and infrastructure organizations connect strategy, technology, operations, and governance into a single geo-enabled system, turning location intelligence into a driver of the intelligent enterprise. PwC's Platinum designation reflects a shared focus with Esri on advancing the intelligent enterprise specifically for energy and infrastructure customers, where connecting spatial data to operational decision-making carries outsized value.

"We're excited to build on our relationship with Esri as we step into Esri's Platinum tier for systems integrators. Together with Esri, we're bringing geospatial capabilities to the intelligent enterprise - pairing PwC's AI development expertise with ArcGIS to help clients connect strategy, operations, and technology through location intelligence and turn that intelligence into business results."

Scaling systems integration and utility network delivery

For more than 14 years, PwC's GIS team has provided geospatial strategy, spatial data analytics, network information management system implementations (utility network), and enterprise system integration for a wide range of customers. That track record of systems integration delivery, now paired with PwC's AI development expertise, is what positions PwC to advance the industry and help clients realize the most value out of their ArcGIS investments.

Learn more about PwC's geospatial capabilities and Esri Alliance.

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About Esri

Esri, the global market leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, location intelligence, and mapping, helps customers unlock the full potential of data to improve operational and business results. Founded in 1969 in Redlands, California, USA, Esri software is deployed in hundreds of thousands of organizations globally, including Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, nonprofit institutions, and universities. Esri has regional offices, international distributors, and partners providing local support in over 100 countries on six continents. With its pioneering commitment to geospatial technology and analytics, Esri engineers the most innovative solutions that leverage a geographic approach to solving some of the world's most complex problems by placing them in the crucial context of location. Visit us at esri.com.

About PwC

At PwC, we help clients build trust and reinvent so they can turn complexity into competitive advantage. We're a tech-forward, people-empowered network with more than 364,000 people in 136 countries and 137 territories. Across audit and assurance, tax and legal, deals and consulting, we help clients build, accelerate, and sustain momentum. Find out more at www.pwc.com.

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