
System architecture review is key to a successful GIS system implementation or integration and should be the lead task for any digital transformation. The transparency of the process helps maintain project integrity throughout the project life and is crucial for future references or audits. Skipping the vital architecture tasks of ensuring proper design, sizing, installation, and configuration can cause suboptimal performance (long wait times and intermittent disruptions), security vulnerabilities (data privacy concerns and cyber threats), unexpected failures leading to complete system outages, and increased administration overhead.
Reviewing and updating the architecture at the project onset provides the following benefits to utility organizations:
- Ensures all system components are compatible and function correctly; identifies potential issues upfront
- Provides decision support for design decisions at an enterprise level
- Captures all requirements to deliver a system that meets user needs
- Reduces integration issues and improves overall system reliability
- Provides traceability of decisions, requirements, and changes
- Aligns businesses with project goals and a clear framework
- Controls costs and minimizes project disruptions
- Builds quality into the system from the start for reduced defects and increased customer satisfaction
Accelerate Your Transformation
Our approach of using preconfigured strategies, well-architected frameworks from leading cloud providers, and a mix of industry tools, including UDC-developed scripts and tools, allows us to deploy your GIS infrastructure at an accelerated rate. We know the important questions to ask your business teams to accurately determine the load your utility and users will place on the future system, which is key for determining the appropriate sizing for your architecture the first time around.
Align with Major Industry Cloud Providers
We recognize the growing role of the cloud in supporting data capabilities, driving business transformations, and enabling GIS integrations. As a vendor-agnostic partner, we are committed to finding the right solution for your organization that optimizes your cloud deployment.
We have extensive knowledge of the technology stacks of leading cloud providers, including AWS and Microsoft Azure. Working with utilities for over 20 years as GIS experts and an Esri Platinum Partner, we also completely understand Esri’s solutions, platform, and related system integrations. These industry insights ensure we align you with the latest industry offerings, trends, and next-generation roadmaps.
Accurate Pricing
Our experience generating non-functional GIS requirements for our utility clients allows us to provide more precise pricing estimates for your new system. Our extensive background in developing different levels of business process flows for the gas and electric utility industries lends us the foundational knowledge to build logical models based on these requirements. We, in turn, create high-level architectures that accurately price costs against your requirements.