Esri Chosen by Microsoft as its GIS Service for Enterprise Users

Esri is collaborating with Microsoft Corp. on two new offerings leveraging Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Azure. This collaboration makes the power of geospatial analytics available to a much broader audience than ever before. Esri’s GIS platform, ArcGIS, will be integrated into Power BI, a set of business analytics tools, which enables its enterprise users to create dashboards, reports, and data visualizations through a cloud-based service. Power BI, which has more than five million subscribers, will be able to leverage integrated data and geospatial analytics capabilities from ArcGIS, including interactive basemaps, US demographics, and secure access to organizational data. “ArcGIS geoenables Power BI with some of the world’s leading spatial analytics,” said Dirk Gorter, Esri director of product management. “We’re excited to give Power BI users access to data and enhanced map visualizations so that they can tell compelling stories using spatial and nonspatial data.” www.esri.com