VertiGIS Studio provides lifecycle management tool for showcasing charity’s impact on UK nature   “VertiGIS Studio enables us to see our exact progress towards delivering 25,000 hectares of newly created or restored priority wildlife habitats by 2025. National Trust staff at all levels love it because it tells us if we are on target and enables easy, accurate and up to date reporting. We have a well-established relationship with 1Spatial who have used their in-depth understanding of our organisation and its drivers to support our migration to VertiGIS.”   Ian Dawes, GIS Pr ..read more

In our work with customers across the United States, we’ve consistently seen local government customers tasked with complying with FEMA requirements resulting from the 2005 Floodplain Map Modernization Program. This program was a major federal effort to improve the quality and accuracy of floodplain information that has had echoing effects decades later. Many VertiGIS customers have been active participants in this process, creating extensive sets of GIS-based floodplain models and maps.  As data has improved – and flooding as a whole has increased worldwide in recent years – requests fr ..read more

We’ve just completed our latest SOC 2 examination for VertiGIS Studio and we’re very excited about this. But what does that mean for us as an organization – and for you as our customer? At VertiGIS, keeping customer and stakeholder data secure is our top priority. To ensure that our systems and controls have been designed appropriately to achieve that goal, we sought out third-party attestation from a qualified auditing firm. Our SOC 2 report is the result of their examination. In this blog post, we’ll explain what a SOC 2 report is, what it covers, and why we chose to undergo this rigorous co ..read more

This week, Esri formally announced the retirement of two of their most popular products for building web GIS applications: The ArcGIS API for JavaScript 3.x, and ArcGIS Web AppBuilder will be officially retired in July 2024. There are hundreds of thousands of public-facing Web AppBuilder apps (and probably 5 times more non-public or internally facing), not to mention all the custom apps built with the popular 3.x JavaScript API that Web AppBuilder uses. Retiring any product with such prevalent use has huge impacts, and that’s definitely true for these popular offerings from Esri. But it shoul ..read more

Retirement announcement | AppStudio overview  With Esri’s recent announcement of the upcoming retirement of ArcGIS AppStudio and their call to “highly encourage our users to choose an alternative solution to AppStudio when starting a new app project”; many are now looking for alternative solutions. While Esri has recommended some possible alternatives, none of them truly resemble the current ArcGIS AppStudio pattern. This may present challenges for AppStudio users as they attempt to build new – or rebuild old – mobile GIS apps.  Fortunately, there’s a better option.  VertiGIS S ..read more

VertiGIS were in fine form at the recent Esri Infrastructure Management & GIS Conference (IMGIS)! Our VertiGIS Studio staff that attended had a great time sharing the exciting benefits that VertiGIS solutions offer within the Utilities, Telecommunications, Architecture, Engineering and Construction industries. “There is nothing like being able to talk with your hands and express excitement about a potential solution or frustration with a long-running business pain point. In person conferences, particularly at the calibre of an Esri organized event, are here to stay.”, says VertiGIS Soluti ..read more

We’re excited to announce that VertiGIS has received two awards at this year’s Esri Partner Conference – the ArcGIS Marketplace Award and Top Solution Partner! The Esri Partner Conference is an annual, exclusive event that brings together Esri’s partner network from around the globe. Throughout the event, Esri partners have an opportunity to learn from each other, expand their professional communities, and discover new ways that they can work together to enrich the possibilities of geospatial technology. Part of the event also aims to recognize Esri partners who have had outstanding accomplis ..read more

Globally, VertiGIS works with partner organizations that support the expansion and reach of our technology suites. Last month, a group of these partners met in Victoria, BC for our annual VertiGIS Studio Partner Summit. The event provided opportunities for advancing VertiGIS-partner relationships, discussing emerging VertiGIS innovations, and connecting through a shared passion for GIS.    A time-honored tradition at the VertiGIS Studio Partner Summit is a hackathon – a social event where partners collaborate to develop solutions using VertiGIS Studio technology. The goal of th ..read more

VertiGIS Studio Item Manager offers advanced item management solutions for ArcGIS® Online and Portal for ArcGIS® users. This innovative solution makes it easy to manage and edit ArcGIS items… and the best part? It’s completely free to use!   We took some time to chat with Sean McClurkan from the City of Austin, Texas and our friends from Directions Magazine to learn how the City of Austin is currently using VertiGIS Studio Item Manager.   As Sean explained in the webinar (which can be viewed below), the City of Austin recently shifted their GIS server and application infra ..read more