Digital Transformation

The Transformation of Business by Data Science

Most digitally savvy executives use data-driven insights to propel faster decision-making. But the most competitive organisations and industries are transforming core business practices by tapping into a critical dimension of data—location.

The Power of Location Intelligence

Revealing data’s location intelligence—the where factor—is especially valuable for businesses and organisations. Why? Because of the tidal wave of data being generated from tens of billions of devices linked to people, products, places, and assets via the Internet of Things. Data science is a fundamental component of digital transformation, and location intelligence unmasks hidden value in your data.

Property Management

Retail

Insurance

Airports

Property Management

Architects, property developers and housing associations all use real-time location data to optimise all phases (plan, design, build and decomposition) of the property management lifecycle, including flood risk assessment, accessibility and suitability for potential residents.

Retail

Retailers are gaining a competitive edge through location data-enriched customer analytics, market planning, inventory management, omnichannel marketing, and new product development.

Insurance

Insurers use digital maps that pull in live data from mobile phones, weather sensors and social media to help predict future risk, verify claims, manage assets, respond to events, communicate proactively with stakeholders and offer competitive pricing.

Airports

GIS is used extensively throughout an airport to manage assets and maintenance on the airfield, determine where and how to maximise capacity, manage environmental risk and to monitor and improve passenger movement in and around terminals.

Driving Digital Transformation with Geographic Information System Technology

In a connected, mobile world, location is the ultimate common reference point. Paired with geographic information system (GIS) mapping and spatial analytics software, location gives data context—on everything from buying habits to up-to-the-moment asset movement. The new generation of GIS underwrites digital transformation by converting static spreadsheets to interactive, real-time maps and dashboards.

GIS acts as a gateway to access all our information. Making it visible in a geographical manner is a powerful way of getting people engaged. By layering data, we can very quickly build up a good picture of what it means and make confident decisions. As a result, GIS is making us a more efficient and cost effective organisation.

John Blaymires

COO at IGas

LOCATION TECHNOLOGY IN ACTION

Revealing actionable insights

Powerful spatial analysis tools and 3d modelling capabilities are used by property designers and developers to find and develop the ideal site based on a wide range of factors such as the local population demographic, environmental risk, local transport infrastructure and effects on sustainability.

Advanced Analytics

Mobile Working

Data Visualisation

Rethinking Business and Customer Relationships

The quest to achieving digital transformation involves an essential task: making sense of massive amounts of data. That’s because true digital transformation is about insisting on better information and real-time insights so that you can make better decisions, and get better results—and do so with speed.

Every CTO must ensure that the time and money they are spending adds value to their organisation. The Technology team is leading a culture change internally to be more experimental and become a learning organisation though the use of agile feedback loops. Put simply, organisations must be data enabled. By using ArcGIS to monitor real-time donation data by region, we can now understand what TV content is resonating with the public and use it to make more informed decisions on future content creation.

Zenon Hannick

CTO of Comic Relief

Digitally progressive businesses and organisations take advantage of location intelligence. Today's digital leaders are:

Strategic

Create an enterprise-wide strategy for transforming business
Optimise workflows and achieve next-level collaboration throughout and beyond the enterprise

Agile

Implement mobile data collection, analysis, and sharing
Operationalise the ability to answer questions such as: What is happening? Where is it happening? What should we do?

Forward Thinking

Recognise that adding location intelligence to business intelligence liberates the full potential of existing data
Make precise decisions by generating digital twins

Learn How Location Technology Drives Business Growth

Esri makes the most powerful mapping and advanced analytics software available. We’ve helped organisations boost their data science capabilities and transform digitally since 1969, decades before the Internet existed. Read our free eBook, How location technology is transforming industries. You’ll see how different organisations are using location data in innovative ways to advance their digital transformation and technology integration.

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The Barbican, London
19th September 2017

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The Barbican, London
10th October 2017

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