NHS Information Services Division shows how data can help save lives
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NHS Information Services Division shows how data can help save lives
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North Ayrshire Council transforms grounds maintenance processes
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In creating a standardised process for scheduling grounds maintenance works, North Ayrshire Council has improved its efficiency and responsiveness to urgent issues.
Read MoreScottish Water empowers employees enterprise-wide
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Scottish Water empowers employees enterprise-wide
Read MoreWood Mackenzie drives innovation through collaboration
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By setting up a single centre of GIS expertise and encouraging data sharing, Wood Mackenzie is helping all businesses in the Verisk group to gain valuable new intelligence about global markets and implement innovative new solutions to improve client services.
Read MoreScottish Water empowers staff with bespoke ArcGIS training
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Esri UK has delivered on-site training and eLearning resources to help 1200 employees transition confidently to ArcGIS from a legacy GIS and make optimal use of the new solution in their jobs.
Read MoreNorthern Ireland Water engages in a GIS-led business transformation
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A water utility serving 1.8 million people has created a single corporate GIS and is leveraging this platform to transform its customer services, business efficiency and service delivery.
Read MoreForestry Commission Scotland improves its management of a diverse estate
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Forestry Commission Scotland is using ArcGIS mobile and online tools to accelerate building surveys and provide senior managers with instant insight into the cost and criticality of repairs.
Read MoreSouth Lanarkshire Council highlights the importance of clean air
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A Scottish local authority has created an interactive online Story Map to raise public awareness of air pollution, and encourage citizens to make lifestyle changes to help improve air quality.
Read MoreNewly launched Geollect app protects shipping from piracy
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One of Esri UK’s start-up partners, Geollect, has created an ArcGIS Online app that improves understanding of maritime risks and helps ship owners to reduce their operational costs.
In many parts of the world, commercial ships and yachts face significant risks ranging from armed attacks by pirates and thefts at sea, to an above average chance of crew injuries in certain ports. Geollect has developed an app that clearly indicates which risks are highest in which locations, giving ship owners the more precise information they need to plan safer journeys.
Read MoreScottish National Park Authority Conserves Spectacular Natural Landscape
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The Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park Authority has transformed the way that staff and volunteers record data outdoors, using a suite of mobile GIS apps. The authority can now monitor its conservation activities more successfully and make faster interventions to enhance one of the most environmentally significant and scenic regions of Scotland.
Read MoreFera Science Conveys Scientific Evidence to Decision Makers
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The agri-food research company Fera Science, renowned for original thinking that can be applied in the field, has developed a GIS-based web app to help its clients respond to the challenges of population growth, pollution and climate change. The app presents high resolution imagery from an Unmanned Aerial System, enabling decision makers to more easily identify ways to protect natural resources and food security.
Read MoreThe Young Generation Driving GIS Innovation
/Within both public sector and commercial organisations across the UK, young professionals are combining their passion for GIS with astute problem-solving skills and creativity to invent game-changing GIS apps.
Read MoreHow GIS is starting to underpin successful BIM strategies
/While BIM (Building Information Modelling) has been around for a decade or more, legislation has recently been introduced in the UK which compels organisations wishing to tender for government construction contracts to use a BIM process to record, store and exchange digital packages in which spatial context is significant.
Read MoreUnique Digital breaks new ground in audience-targeted marketing
/A creative digital marketing agency in London is using GIS to successfully focus its marketing activities on specific target audiences. It employs Esri’s ArcGIS platform in the planning, auditing and evaluation phases of its campaigns to deliver the optimum return on marketing investment for its clients.
Read MoreKnight Frank steers UK retailers towards profitable expansion
/The world’s leading independent real-estate consultancy is using Esri’s ArcGIS platform to help retailers find the most advantageous sites for new stores across the UK. The firm gives its clients greater confidence in their business plans and enables them to expand their retail operations more quickly.
Read MoreEverything starts with a base map
/Sovereign Housing has been working hard to place GIS into the hands of over 500 members of staff, a strategy that led to it winning the Esri UK Customer Success Award for ‘Cartography is for Everyone’ this year. Andrew Bradley, Strategic Insight Manager at Sovereign Housing, outlines how skillful cartography helped it win.
Read MoreMaking geographical connections with GIS
/Students from the Royal High School Bath were the proud winners of this year’s GIS is Social category, at the Esri UK Customer Success Awards. Jason Sawle, Customer Success Manager at Esri UK, outlines why their project clinched the top spot.
Read MoreEndangered birds of prey receive vital protection
/An urgent conservation initiative is being spearheaded by The Golden Eagle Trust in Ireland to save the Hen Harrier, one of the country’s most endangered native bird species. By improving understanding of habitats, Esri’s ArcGIS is playing a key role in helping to safeguard this iconic bird of prey for future generations.
Read MoreMobile data collection saves fieldworkers one day a week
/Winner of this year’s Your GIS is Mobile category, in the Esri UK Customer Success Awards, Fera Science is a shining example of how mobile GIS can inject new levels of efficiency and accuracy into field data collection, as David Tait, Esri UK Customer Success Manager, explains.
Read MoreSouth Ayrshire increases public engagement in planning
/Innovative use of Story Maps led to South Ayrshire Council winning an Esri UK Customer Success Award this year, in the Tell Your Story Using a Map category. Murray Roden, Esri UK Customer Success Manager, examines how the council transformed the online presentation of its Local Development Plan, generating more public views than ever before.
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