The energy landscape is changing quickly.
Electrification is accelerating. Distributed energy resources are reshaping network operations. Data centers are driving new load growth. Extreme weather is adding urgency to resilience planning. At the same time, utilities are being asked to improve reliability, manage complexity, and deliver greater value to the communities they serve.
Meeting these challenges requires more than new infrastructure. It requires trusted information that can move across planning, engineering, field operations, enterprise systems, and the control room.
That foundation starts with GIS.
Schneider Electric is introducing EcoStruxure™ ArcFM, the next evolution of the leading utility-specific GIS solution. Built on Esri’s ArcGIS Utility Network and shaped by Schneider Electric’s deep experience in utility operations, EcoStruxure ArcFM reflects a broader vision for how GIS can help utilities connect people, processes, and systems as they modernize the grid.
GIS at the center of grid modernization
For decades, GIS has helped utilities document and manage their networks. Today, utilities need GIS to do much more.
As the grid becomes more dynamic, network information must become an active part of operational decision-making. Planners, engineers, field crews, operators, and business stakeholders all need to work from trusted data that reflects the real state of the network.
EcoStruxure ArcFM is designed for that shift.
The Schneider Electric and Esri partnership helps utilities unlock the full value of modern network information management. ArcGIS Utility Network provides a powerful foundation for a modern network model. EcoStruxure ArcFM extends that foundation with utility-specific workflows, governance, automation, and intelligence that help turn geospatial data into action for the teams responsible for planning, building, operating, and maintaining critical infrastructure. An example of a utility adopting this strategy is Santee Cooper, who has already demonstrated the power of grid modernization built on EcoStruxure ArcFM.
The goal is simple: network information should not only describe the grid. It should help orchestrate it.
From legacy to legendary
The transition to EcoStruxure ArcFM is more than a brand refresh. It reflects how utility operations have evolved.
Utilities are moving from disconnected tools and siloed workflows toward enterprise-wide platforms that connect teams, data, and processes across the organization. EcoStruxure ArcFM supports that shift by helping utilities adopt capabilities based on their immediate needs while building toward a more connected, scalable operating model over time.
This matters because grid modernization is not achieved through a single application or one-time deployment. It requires a foundation that can evolve with the utility, support more users across the enterprise, and connect the systems that drive day-to-day operations.
With Esri’s ArcGIS Utility Network as the geospatial foundation and Schneider Electric’s One Digital Grid Platform connecting GIS to the broader operational ecosystem, EcoStruxure ArcFM helps utilities move from modernization planning to measurable operational progress.
Connecting the utility enterprise
Rather than treating GIS as a collection of standalone tools, EcoStruxure ArcFM brings together purpose-built applications that support different users, workflows, and stages of the asset lifecycle while sharing a common network model and operational foundation.
- ArcFM Pro enables GIS professionals create, edit, validate, and manage complex utility networks with greater speed, accuracy, and consistency.
- ArcFM Design turns plans into operationally ready assets by supporting GIS-based design, work management alignment, costing, phasing, and as-built updates.
- ArcFM Mobile extends trusted network information into the field, supporting connected and disconnected workflows while improving collaboration and data quality.
- ArcFM Web broadens access to network intelligence through a modern browser-based experience.
- ArcFM Enterprise provides governance, automation, integration, and orchestration capabilities that help connect GIS with operational, financial, customer, field, and enterprise systems.
Together, these capabilities help utilities work from a common network model while connecting workflows across engineering, operations, field services, customer teams, and enterprise systems. To see it in action, learn more about how Con Edison has been leading grid modernization in New York City with EcoStruxure ArcFM.
Bringing GIS closer to operations
Historically, access to network information has often been limited to GIS specialists and power users. Today, utilities need broader access to trusted network intelligence across the enterprise.
ArcFM Web helps make that possible by giving more teams access to the information they need, when they need it. Engineers, operators, planners, customer support teams, and field leaders can work from the same network view, improving visibility, collaboration, and decision-making without sacrificing governance or data quality.
Turning designs into operational assets
One of the most persistent challenges utilities face is making sure planned work becomes operational reality quickly and accurately.
When information becomes fragmented between engineering, construction, field work, and operations, the consequences can affect safety, reliability, efficiency, and customer service. EcoStruxure ArcFM is designed to help close that gap.
Through integrated workflows spanning design, field execution, validation, commissioning, and network management, utilities can move from planned work to operational readiness with greater confidence. As-built information can be captured, governed, validated, and shared across the organization so the network model stays aligned with the real world.
That alignment becomes even more important as utilities modernize operational systems. Operators can make better decisions when systems such as ADMS are working from trusted, current network information. By strengthening the connection between GIS and operational environments, EcoStruxure ArcFM helps utilities improve the flow of validated network data into the systems that support real-time grid operations.
Learn how Connexus Energy has already realized operational efficiency and near real-time visibility of the as-built netwrok with EcoStruxure ADMS and EcoStruxure ArcFM in our joint case study with Esri.
Designed for the outcomes that matter
Grid modernization is not only a technology initiative. It is an operational transformation.
Utilities are working to integrate more DERs without sacrificing reliability. They are preparing for increasing demand driven by electrification and data center growth. They are strengthening resilience against extreme weather while making smarter investment decisions across the grid.
Addressing these challenges requires modern information management. EcoStruxure ArcFM helps utilities create that foundation by connecting people, processes, and systems around a shared understanding of the network. It helps reduce complexity, improve collaboration, accelerate Utility Network adoption, and support more informed decision-making across the enterprise.
Building a more connected grid
The grid is becoming more dynamic, more distributed, and more interconnected than ever before. Utilities need a digital foundation that can keep pace.
EcoStruxure ArcFM helps utilities connect GIS with operational, financial, customer, and field systems while maintaining a trusted representation of the network. It helps transform GIS from a system of record into a platform for orchestration, enabling utilities to connect data to action across the enterprise.
For decades, ArcFM has helped utilities manage some of the world’s most critical infrastructure. Today, EcoStruxure ArcFM builds on that legacy with a new vision: helping utilities orchestrate and connect GIS, IT, and OT systems to turn designs into operational assets at speed and scale.
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