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Esri Chosen by Microsoft as its GIS Service for Enterprise Users
Esri, the world leader in geographic information system (GIS)
technology, is collaborating with Microsoft (News - Alert) Corp. on two new offerings
leveraging Microsoft
Power BI and Microsoft
Azure. This collaboration makes the power of geospatial analytics
available to a much broader audience than ever before.
Esri's GIS platform, ArcGIS, will be integrated into Power BI (Business
Intelligence), a set of business analytics tools, which enables its
enterprise users to create dashboards, reports, and data visualizations
through a cloud-based service. Power BI, which has more than five
million subscribers, will be able to leverage integrated data and
geospatial analytics capabilities from ArcGIS, including interactive
basemaps, US demographics, and secure access to organizational data.
"ArcGIS geoenables Power BI with some of the world's leading spatial
analytics," said Dirk Gorter, Esri director of product management.
"We're excited to give Power BI users access to data and enhanced map
visualizations so that they can tell compelling stories using spatial
and nonspatial data. More and more, this location-based insight is
becoming an important source of intelligence for the business."
In addition, Esri's premier professional desktop appication, ArcGIS
Pro, can take advantage of Microsoft's Azure cloud platform in a desktop
as a service (DaaS) configuration, part of a growing collection of
integrated cloud services.
Joint users of Esri and Microsoft's Azure cloud platform will now also
enjoy all the capabilities of ArcGIS Pro on Azure's virtual desktop.
ArcGIS Pro as a service on Azure enables GIS users to visualize, edit,
and analyze geographic data in both 2D and 3D, as well as share their
work with others. This development is especially important to ArcGIS
Desktop implementations with extremely intensive graphics performance
requirements.
"Microsoft Power BI is committed to developing high-touch business
relationships that result in value for Power BI users," said John Doyle,
director, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Corp. "The ArcGIS Maps for Power
BI solution will provide Esri's vast experience with geospatial
analytics to all Power BI users for their analysis and data
visualization needs. When armed with a strong geographic understanding,
Power BI users can make informed location-based business insights for
everything from allocating resources to the best places to start a new
business."
This innovative collaboration was announced at Microsoft's Ignite
Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, which kicked off Monday, September 26,
and continues until Friday, September 30.
Learn
more about the collaboration between Esri and Microsoft.
About Esri
Since 1969, Esri has been giving customers around the world the power to
think and plan geographically. As the market leader in GIS technology,
Esri software is used in more than 350,000 organizations worldwide
including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most
national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and
more than 7,000 colleges and universities. Esri applications, running on
more than one million desktops and thousands of web and enterprise
servers, provide the backbone for the world's mapping and spatial
analysis. Esri is the only vendor that provides complete technical
solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms. Visit us
at esri.com/news.
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