Utility Network Migration

We perform a pre-migration data quality assessment to develop an appropriate plan. There are no quick-fixes when it comes to a migration project such as this, and we won’t pretend there are.

You’ll receive a baseline report of your data, checking its quality, connectivity and completeness. This can be used to identify and minimise risks early on, gaining insight into the data migration complexities specific to your organisation.

Our clear and concise report pinpoints issues on a map, and our team of experts are on hand to guide you through our findings.

Collaborate with our data modelling experts to create a tailored model to suit your data. 

Esri Utility Network is a flexible model – there are mandatory requirements, but there’s also plenty of room for customisation. 

You know your data better than anyone, and we have the expertise and experience to design a model that fits your needs.

Using the results of our readiness assessment, we repeatedly migrate and map data to the target Utility Network configuration, ensuring we account for every feature in your data set. We never leave an asset behind.

Our intelligent rules engine can be used to implement automatic “fix-ups” where appropriate, to speed up migration.

Determine the detailed conformance of your data to the defined network rules.

Any new data is checked before migration, forming a data quality firewall that is always in place to perform consistent and repeatable validation. This ensures ongoing conformance that will serve you beyond the migration project.

Our progressive, phased migration from your legacy GIS is focused on de-risking your migration, not racing through it. You’re bound to have ongoing edits to your data during this process, and our process is designed to make this seamless – synchronising edits in the old system to the new Utility Network Model.

Migrations are incredibly complex in scope and scale. It takes time to assess the quality of your data, complete a migration, and plan for longevity, making it a costly process. The time and cost associated depends on how you migrate from old to new. As specialists in location data management, we have decades of experience in assessing and improving data quality, data modelling, and data mapping, and inherently understand your location and utility network data.

Migrations can be incredibly disruptive and require thorough strategic planning to validate and cleanse data and ensure connectivity. Our process keeps your network data synchronised between old and new network models to allow dual running and incremental adoption until your whole organisation is ready to move to ArcGIS Utility Network.

Our experts will simplify the process and work collaboratively to ensure disruption is kept to a minimum.

Esri will cease support for the geometric network model in January 2024. They have committed to supporting ArcGIS Utility Network for the next 15-20 years, therefore the successful migration of your network data is essential. Migrating to the new ArcGIS Utility Network will protect your investment and enhance the value of your network data. Therefore, you will avoid the costs of supporting an otherwise retired data management model.

Our experts will complete a data quality assessment, deliver a successful migration, and provide the tools to ensure that data captured is complete, correct, and consistent for years to come.

ArcGIS UN references a SOA - a modern way to develop and integrate systems. Often REST APIs allow systems to communicate in a programatic way, as we discuss in our blog about the Service Based Architecture of ArcGIS Utility Network.

With 1Spatial, you’re always future-proofed. Our Tools use REST APIs designed for the SOA way of working. All the great work done to get your data read and integrated into the new model will continue to benefit you for integration into your BAU systems and processes.