Indiana Company Partners with World Leader in GIS

Online, December 14, 2011 (Newswire.com) - The electric utility grid in Indiana is poised to get a little bit smarter, thanks to Providence GIS Solutions new partnership with Esri. Esri is the market leader in geographic information systems (GIS). Esri software is used in more than 300,000 organizations worldwide. This new partnership will allow Providence to help electric utilities take full advantage of GIS technologies in order to more efficiently operate and maintain their electric grid system, and prepare for the smart grid of the future.

Jason Tuck, Founder and CEO of Providence GIS Solutions said, "Many of the local utility cooperatives and Rural Electric Membership Corporations in Indiana have systems in place to manage customer information, outages, metering, payments and more, but these systems are not interoperable with each other." Tuck explained that Geographical Information Systems can bring these various data sources together to help utility managers operate more efficiently, which will ultimately translate into cost savings and lower utility bills for customers.

Providence has forged partnerships with Esri, Milsoft Utility Solutions, and Alpha Engineering, in order to provide world class software solutions to Indiana electric utilities. Providence GIS Solutions is already working with multiple Indiana electric utilities to help develop and implement a GIS strategy that saves money and takes advantage of the systems currently in place. Tuck said, "Indiana has an opportunity to lead the Midwest in the transition to a smarter electric grid, and thanks in a large part to our partnership with Esri we can look forward to do our part in making the smart grid a reality."

Providence GIS Solutions is a full service GIS Consulting firm focused on providing the expertise required to design and maintain effective and cost efficient Geographic Information System (GIS) solutions to electrical utilities. Learn more at http://www.gissmartgrid.com

Since 1969, Esri has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The market leader in geographic information system (GIS) technology, Esri software is used in more than 300,000 organizations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities. Esri applications, running on more than one million desktops and thousands of Web and enterprise servers, provide the backbone for the world's mapping and spatial analysis. Esri is the only vendor that provides complete technical solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms.

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