The success of every utility modernization initiative depends on trusted network data.
As utilities adopt Esri’s ArcGIS Utility Network and connect GIS more deeply with operational systems, the demands on GIS teams have never been greater. Network models are becoming more sophisticated. Data volumes are growing. More users are contributing edits. And operational systems increasingly depend on GIS data being accurate, complete, and current.
That reality is driving many utilities to rethink how they manage the creation, validation, and governance of their network information.
Enter EcoStruxure™ ArcFM Pro.
Built specifically for electric, gas, and fiber network management, EcoStruxure™ ArcFM Pro provides utility-focused editing, validation, and workflow capabilities that help GIS professionals maintain operationally trusted network data with greater speed, consistency, and confidence.
Accuracy is the new productivity
Utility modernization depends on more than digitizing workflows. It requires confidence that every decision is based on data that reflects the real-world network.
One of the most valuable capabilities in EcoStruxure™ ArcFM Pro is Session Manager, Schneider Electric’s utility-specific approach to version management and workflow control.
Session Manager helps utilities establish repeatable processes for the creation, review, approval, and commissioning of GIS updates. Instead of relying on disconnected spreadsheets, emails, or manual tracking processes, utilities gain a controlled workflow that supports:
- Data quality assurance
- Approval and review processes
- Full edit history and auditability
- Job status tracking
- Improved team collaboration
- Reduced version management overhead
The outcome is a more reliable and scalable approach to maintaining network information—particularly as utilities expand the number of users, contractors, and stakeholders participating in network data creation.
For organizations deploying the Utility Network across the enterprise, Session Manager provides a critical layer of governance that helps keep data accurate from planning through commissioning.
Operational data quality starts at the source
Poor data quality creates challenges far beyond the GIS department.
When network information is incomplete, outdated, or inaccurate, downstream systems and operational processes are affected. Planning becomes less reliable. Field execution slows. Customer impacts become harder to assess. Operational systems must compensate for uncertainty.
EcoStruxure™ ArcFM Pro helps address these challenges through rules-driven editing, automation, and validation designed specifically for utility networks. The platform enables organizations to establish standards and enforce consistency while maintaining efficient editing experience.
The solution delivers:
- Operationally validated network data
- Improved QA/QC processes
- Greater consistency across teams
- Faster issue identification and resolution
- Reduced rework
- Higher confidence in downstream systems and integrations
As Schneider Electric’s rebranding framework summarizes, EcoStruxure™ ArcFM Pro enables utilities to maintain a complex, evolving digital twin with greater ease, speed, and accuracy while ensuring data remains operationally ready.
Purpose-built for utility GIS professionals
Traditional GIS editing tools were not designed to manage the complexity of modern utility networks.
EcoStruxure™ ArcFM Pro extends ArcGIS Pro with utility-specific workflows and tools that simplify network creation, editing, and validation while enforcing business rules and operational requirements throughout the asset lifecycle. The result is a more intuitive data management experience that improves both productivity and data quality. Users have reported a 99% improvement in data accuracy and a 75% increase in editing productivity when using EcoStruxure ArcFM Pro over using ArcGIS Pro OOTB.
GIS teams can leverage:
- Utility-specific editing tools and connectivity management
- Automated editing behaviors through configurable auto updaters
- Advanced tracing and network intelligence
- Visual editing and redlining tools
- Conduit and underground structure management
- Feeder and pressure zone analysis
- Real-time validation that catches issues as they edit so network connectivity is never compromised
Beyond productivity, Ecostruxure ™ ArcFM Pro helps utilities maintain an operationally trusted digital twin through rules-driven validation and utility-specific workflows that keep network data aligned with real-world conditions. The platform scales consistently across teams and projects while supporting unified creation, validation, and review workflows that drive down the overall cost of asset management
Supporting fiber expansion with the same trusted foundation
As utilities diversify and communications providers continue expanding broadband networks, managing fiber infrastructure has become as critical as managing electric and gas assets.
Formerly known as Fiber Manager, EcoStruxure™ ArcFM Pro for Fiber brings the same proven utility editing framework to fiber network operations.
Fiber operators must manage highly complex relationships between ducts, cables, splice points, terminations, and customer connections. EcoStruxure™ ArcFM Pro for Fiber simplifies these workflows through industry-specific data models, automation, and editing experiences tailored for telecommunications networks.
The benefits include:
- Improved connectivity management
- More accurate network documentation
- Faster service activation
- Improved capacity management
- Reduced operational complexity
- Faster time-to-revenue for network investments
By transforming network information into actionable operational intelligence, organizations can accelerate service delivery while maintaining high-quality records of the physical and logical network.
Scalable network intelligence
As utilities continue expanding their digital ecosystems, trusted network information must move seamlessly across planning, operational, and enterprise environments.
EcoStruxure ™ ArcFM Enterprise is designed to securely automate and manage posting changes to ArcGIS Enterprise, detect changes and expose those feeder-level connectivity, attributes, and configuration data to downstream systems and applications in real time.
By standardizing how feeder information is queried, shared, and synchronized, EcoStruxure ArcFM Enterprise will help utilities:
- Automate critical processes
- Accelerate the speed and performance of sharing with downstream systems while reducing load on IT infrastructure)
- Improve data accessibility across operational systems.
- Support advanced analytics and grid intelligence initiatives.
- Strengthen system-wide awareness across planning and operations.
- Better align network and operational models in near real time.
One utility has realized 99% data accuracy by leveraging ArcFM Enterprise. Combined with the trusted network data maintained in EcoStruxure ™ ArcFM Pro, these capabilities help them continue strengthening the connection between network information management and operational execution.
Be the Pro. Connect Your Community.
EcoStruxure™ ArcFM Pro helps utilities achieve confidence through utility-specific editing, robust governance, intelligent automation, and operationally focused data quality processes.
The result is simple but powerful: teams can work faster, maintain greater accuracy, and create network information that is ready to support the systems and processes that keep the grid running.
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