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Electric utilities manage a wide range of field activity, including inspections, maintenance, reporting, and emergency response. These operations depend on accurate, timely data — but many teams still rely on outdated systems. Paper forms, spreadsheets, and disconnected tools create delays, errors, and blind spots across crews and departments. These inefficiencies...

Your core systems — EAM, GIS, and ERP — are hungry for good data. You made a massive investment in them, expecting streamlined operations and critical insights. But what are they actually getting from your field teams? If the answer is "slow, inconsistent, or just plain unreliable data," you have...

As the year ends, field operations teams are closing gaps and preparing for 2026. A cluttered or disconnected data pipeline stalls your planning. The December 2025 issue delivers essential resources to clean up your pipeline and boost agility with low-code tools. We also explore how combining GIS with field inputs...

Utility operations face pressure from every direction: rising costs, regulatory scrutiny, workforce shifts, climate risk, and aging infrastructure. This on-demand session brings together experts in process improvement, digital twins, AI, and mobile data collection to show how utilities turn those pressures into practical wins. Across a full multi-segment program, you...

Geospatial data collection involves gathering geographic coordinates and attribute information directly from the field. Modern GIS data collection provides the foundation for geospatial capabilities by connecting site observations to the systems that drive spatial analysis and diverse geospatial applications. Organizations that capture consistent, location-based information gain a dependable view of...

Your app backlog keeps growing, the data coming from the field is inconsistent, and your GIS experts spend too much time building simple forms. These are not separate problems. They are symptoms of a single, foundational mismatch between your work and your tools. Your GIS architecture is excellent for managing...

If your data pipeline breaks between the field and the office, the rest of your process never had a chance. This month’s newsletter focuses on how to fix that disconnect for good. Fulcrum Insider – Issue 54 takes a hard look at the gaps, delays, and workarounds that slow down...

What do you do when your annual pole attachment requests suddenly leap from 300 to 5,000? This was the exact challenge facing Owen Electric Cooperative. Almost overnight, a flood of new federal broadband initiatives overwhelmed their manual, disconnected inspection processes. The challenge: Manual processes at a breaking point Owen Electric’s...

Environmental compliance is a beast. The regulations are intense, the stakes are high, and one slip-up can put you and your client at risk. This webinar shows you how to manage the highly regulated and complex remediation workflows that are central to environmental services teams. We're moving past basic data...