PwC and Esri are expanding their strategic alliance to bring geospatial insights to the intelligent enterprise, GIM International reported. Esri has awarded PwC its Platinum systems integrator (SI) designation, making the expanded collaboration the first to take an SI's relationship with Esri to the highest levels of both business and technology engagement.
PwC and Esri share a particular focus on expanding the future value of GIS for energy and infrastructure organizations, aiming to help them connect strategy, technology, operations and governance into a single geo-enabled system through AI and rich location intelligence. PwC is one of a small group of Esri system integrators that have demonstrated sustained excellence in GIS implementation and client delivery, and its GIS team has provided geospatial strategy, spatial data analytics, utility network implementations and enterprise system integration for more than 14 years.
The expanded alliance pairs PwC's AI development expertise with Esri's ArcGIS platform, with PwC building and deploying AI-enabled solutions on top of it to help clients extract more value from spatial data and scale intelligent decision-making across the enterprise. "Esri is excited to collaborate with PwC as the first premier SI to enter into this new level of strategic relationship," said Brian Cross, Esri corporate director of services. "We are proud to recognize PwC's commitment to advancing the impact of ArcGIS, and we look forward to deepening our collaboration to bring AI and geospatial capabilities to the intelligent enterprise for our mutual customers across energy and infrastructure."
"We're excited to build on our relationship with Esri as we step into Esri's Platinum tier for systems integrators," said Imran Ilyas, PwC US business & supply chain operations platform principal. "Together with Esri, we're bringing geospatial capabilities to the intelligent enterprise – pairing PwC's AI development expertise with ArcGIS to help clients connect strategy, operations and technology through location intelligence and turn that intelligence into business results."