TelUC Bits & Bytes Newsletter - November 2023
News & Updates
What's the future hold for ArcGIS Workforce, ArcGIS Navigator, and ArcGIS Field Maps?
Three years ago, we announced the first release of ArcGIS Field Maps, a comprehensive field application that combines the functionalities of ArcGIS Explorer, ArcGIS Collector, and ArcGIS Tracker. This integration allowed us to retire the individual apps and provide users with a unified solution for viewing, capturing, editing, and sharing location data. In addition to these capabilities, we also expressed our intention to incorporate two other apps, ArcGIS Workforce and ArcGIS Navigator, into Field Maps. If you would like to learn more about the future of workforce and navigator capabilities being incorporated into field maps, take a look at this blog.
To collaborate, or not to collaborate?
Fiber broadband buildout is an important topic in today's digital age. Fiber optic technology offers high-speed and reliable internet connections, making it a desirable option for both residential and commercial users. However, the buildout of fiber broadband networks can be a complex and costly process that requires collaboration between telecoms and engineering and construction companies.
Telecoms play a crucial role in providing the necessary infrastructure and connectivity for fiber broadband. They are responsible for planning and deploying the network, including laying the fiber optic cables, installing the necessary equipment, and ensuring the network is operational. Telecoms also handle the provisioning of internet services to end-users.
On the other hand, engineering and construction companies are involved in the physical implementation of the fiber broadband network. They are responsible for tasks such as site surveys, trenching, conduit installation, and fiber optic cable placement. These companies have the expertise and experience in executing large-scale infrastructure projects and ensuring the network is built to specifications.
Collaboration between telecoms and engineering and construction companies is essential for the successful buildout of fiber networks. By working together, they can leverage their respective expertise and resources to streamline the deployment process, reduce costs, and accelerate the expansion of fiber networks. This collaboration involves effective communication, coordination, and cooperation at every stage of the buildout, from planning and design to construction and maintenance.
ArcGIS can help streamline this collaboration effort making it easier to share maps and GIS data between organizations. ArcGIS Enterprise and ArcGIS Online offer two types of portal collaborations that can be established with other organizations: partnered collaborations and distributed collaborations. These two different technology collaborations enable sharing of geospatial content between web GIS portals. Through this process of creating a collaboration, content is either replicated between portals and updates are synchronized at a specified interval, or content is referenced and organizations see live updates as they occur. Setting up a collaboration in ArcGIS can help reduce flat file sharing and ensure telecoms and the engineering and construction companies they are working with are both working off a single sheet of music during fiber buildout projects.
Watch Collaborations in Action HERE
***DEPRECATION NOTICE***
Announced in November, ArcGIS Collector on the Windows platform is officially in deprecation and scheduled to retire on Oct 1st, 2024. During this phase of deprecation, ArcGIS Collector will continue to be available and supported but will not receive any enhancements. Upon retirement on Oct 1st, 2024, Esri will discontinue technical support and remove Collector from the Microsoft Store. For more information please refer to this blog.
Product Updates:
ArcGIS QuickCapture (November 2023)
ArcGIS CityEngine (November 2023)
SiteScan for ArcGIS (November 2023)
ArcGIS Indoors (November 2023)
ArcGIS Workflow Manager (November 2023)
ArcGIS Survey123 (November 2023)
ArcGIS Business Analyst (November 2023)
ArcGIS Drone2Map (November 2023)
Recent TGI5s
Meetups & Events
Look forward to more in-person regional meetups, event meetups, and virtual meetings for the Esri Telecom User Community in 2024. Let us know in the comments where we should have a meetup in 2024 or any topics the team should cover during these meetups.
Telecom Insights
With data flooding the modern enterprise, smart executives are embracing three tenets of collaboration—grounded in location technology—to make important projects successful. Soon after it was founded in 2019, Fibrus began to explore new ways to work with its delivery partners and contractors. Fibrus wanted to improve information sharing, remove its contractors’ dependence on paper maps and accelerate the rollout of full fiber broadband infrastructure. Using Esri’s ArcGIS system, Fibrus built a suite of integrated solutions to streamline processes throughout the entire lifecycle of planning, building and maintaining fiber networks. The new ArcGIS-based processes were initially developed for Project Stratum but were subsequently introduced for all of the company’s other public sector and commercial projects too, completely eliminating the use of paper maps and forms. Learn more about Fibrus and other lessons in collaboration for data-driven organizations.
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