Alliant Energy Corporation signs ELA with ESRI

Alliant Energy Corporation has signed a three-year enterprise license agreement (ELA) with ESRI that will provide unlimited deployments of current ESRI geographic information system (GIS) software. Alliant is an investor-owned public utility company that provides regulated electric and natural gas service to approximately 1 million electric and 400,000 natural gas customers in the states of Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. The agreement will simplify GIS software procurement and administration, make budget management more efficient, and facilitate software distribution to staff throughout the utility.

With the benefit of unlimited software deployments provided by ESRI's ELA program, Alliant plans to take advantage of ArcGIS Server for broader access to desktop and mobile solutions. Alliant will be able to use ArcGIS Server to build fast, high-quality Web mapping applications that improve situational awareness and integrate with other enterprise systems such as work management, customer information, and outage management. With ArcGIS Server, field crews will be able to more effectively use ArcGIS Mobile for inspections, design, routing, and locating sites.

A longtime ESRI software user, Alliant Energy Company decided in 2002 to migrate its disparate legacy systems and data into a single, enterprise-wide GIS. The utility implemented the ArcGIS suite to enhance work order management, outage management, customer service, property accounting, business solutions, and field inquiry. Alliant's GIS has now expanded beyond its initial scope and is crucial to staff in engineering, planning, environmental affairs, dispatch, marketing, economic development, and renewable energy development.

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