UDC Service Areas

UDC’s established services and evolving focus areas are centered around meeting the specific needs of our utility and infrastructure clients. The provided overview features our primary services, solutions, and focuses as well as our Service Area Leaders.

Utility Network Transformation

As a Network Management Specialty recipient, UDC holds Esri specialty certifications in Gas and Electric Utilities Services. UDC’s award-winning Utility Network Transformation solutions help utilities maximize the business value from their transformations. Our solutions navigate utilities through the ArcGIS Utility Network transitional phases of planning, readiness, data refinement, and migration to achieve full production implementation.

Our Utility Network Transformation service area comprises the following solutions:

Enterprise Architecture

UDC’s Enterprise Architecture service designs, builds, and deploys modern GIS architectures that follow best practices from industry-leading architectural frameworks. Our system design engagements help our utility clients align their organizations, information, processes, and technologies with the infrastructure needed to meet the requirements of their new systems and maximize their digital transformations.

Our Enterprise Architecture service area comprises the following services:

  • Architecture Accelerators
  • System Architecture >
  • Cloud Migration
  • Security Strengthening
  • Availability Optimization
  • System Health Check
  • ArcGIS License Roadmap
  • Performance Tuning
  • Core Software Upgrade

GIS-Centric System Integration Service and Focus Areas

Matt Zimmerman oversees the following areas related to systems integration, including GIS services, solution implementation, grid modernization, compliance management, and integrating our client’s Enterprise systems and applications with GIS to support digital workflows and modern network management.

GIS Services

UDC is a recognized industry leader in providing GIS services and solutions for utility enterprises. The GIS Services service area encompasses the full lifecycle of GIS system implementation and integration activities for Gas, Water, Electric, and Fiber. Our objective is to realize a true enterprise solution for our clients by extending GIS spatial technology to all business and operation organizations.

Our GIS Services service area comprises the following services and solutions:

Grid Modernization

UDC provides comprehensive ADMS solutions to our clients by partnering with industry leading product vendors and leveraging in-house GIS and ADMS expertise. Our ADMS road mapping consulting engagements help clients develop strategies and plans to meet their grid modernization objectives. The focus provides a full range of ADMS implementation services including Network Modeling, Network Model Builds, System Builds, and ADMS Upgrades.

Our Grid Modernization focus area comprises the following services:

Digital Design & Construction

UDC’s Digital Design and Construction services provide an end-to-end deployment of the industry’s leading design and construction solutions for electric and gas utilities. Our partnerships with the top software providers and in-house staff of industry leading experts and technology specialists ensure quality delivery of our services. From consultation to installation and integration of software and workflows, UDC delivers a total design-to-construction solution.

Our Digital Design & Construction service area comprises the following services:

Utility Compliance Management

The Utility Compliance Management service area supports utilities with meeting regulatory compliance related challenges and goals for utility inspections, operations, and maintenance. We provide consulting services and implementations of spatially enabled technology, tools, software, and solutions.

Our Utility Compliance Management service area comprises the following solutions:

Data Acquisition

UDC’s deep-rooted knowledge of utility enterprise data and field services positions us as a turnkey solution for utility data acquisition programs. Our evolving virtual asset collection services for GIS and other systems include field and data collection, back-office imagery review and processing, data interpretation, and imagery cataloguing.

Our Data Acquisition service area comprises the following services:

Business Process Support

Our data maintenance and data augmentation services ensure a steady supply of reliable data to downstream operational systems, empowering utilities to make informed critical business decisions. UDC’s wide-ranging utility and infrastructure business process knowledge, technology, and data expertise help us tackle your organization’s data challenges around accuracy, completeness, or quality.

Our Business Process Support service area comprises the following services:

Federal

UDC’s Federal service provides geospatial and business geo-integration expertise to Federal clients at the GIS enterprise and individual project levels. Our services transform GIS data into a trusted knowledge source for evidence-based policy making by our Federal clients.

Our Federal service area comprises the following services:

  • Geospatial Analysis and Modeling
  • Mapping and Visualization
  • Database Design and Management
  • Remote Sensing and Image Processing
  • Application Development and Configuration

Staffing Solutions

The Staffing Solutions service enhances UDC’s ability to respond to our clients’ provisional staffing requests around enterprise GIS and related functions to support a range of business needs with a consultative approach. Our Utility Enterprise GIS expertise and longstanding partnerships produce high-quality results throughout staffing engagements, whether it be for contract or direct hire resources.

Our Staffing Solutions service area fulfills the primary utility staffing requests:

  • GIS Resources
  • IT Resources
  • Project Management
  • Analysts, Architects, Testers, Developers