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Are you considering the transition to digital field inspections but apprehensive about the challenges that lie ahead? Don't let uncertainties hold you back from embracing the future. Our comprehensive infographic dives into the world of digitizing field inspections, addressing common obstacles and offering actionable strategies to ensure a seamless transition...

Watch a demonstration of Fulcrum's integration with Esri's ArcGIS Online! Fulcrum’s recently announced relationship with Esri™ is enabling a new level of development and integration with ArcGIS™ and related products – and you can be among the first to hear about it! Join our Product team for a preview of...

Get the right data to the right people in the field While we’re collecting more field data than ever, it’s still hard to get the right data to people who are out in the field. This free Directions Magazine webinar will talk about (and demonstrate, using the Fulcrum platform) some...

Two experienced geospatial pros discuss the challenges and lessons learned over their GIS careers. Since field inspections require sharp eyes, high-quality data collection, and location information, they've always required a complex stew of technologies to support them. Field inspections demand skills and technologies that go well beyond standardized checklists, including...

Here are just a few of the ways collecting data with spreadsheets creates inaccurate data in your GIS tools. When inaccurate or incomplete data makes it into your GIS tools, it doesn’t just create headaches for you, it causes friction and slows things down across your organization. Why does it...

To do their jobs effectively, today’s field workforces need location-aware apps: apps that connect what’s happening — inspection data that’s being collected, or steps in a checklist that someone is checking off — with where it’s happening, or that provide users with maps to understand the location context of what...

Exploring the U.S. bridge safety crisis, inspection backlogs making it worse, and how digital inspections can help. Bridge disasters are sadly not uncommon. And as 42% of the United States’ 617,000 bridges are at least 50 years old, and 1 in 8 bridges are in such bad repair they need...

You’ve got to keep track of your people, your equipment, and their statuses. The question is, how? As a utility, almost everything you do happens outside an office, in areas that are remote, without readily-available landmarks, or outside of the reach of mobile networks – or all three. Despite these...

Learn how utility companies can optimize their vegetation management program to help prevent blackouts and wildfires. Vegetation management is the biggest single operational expense for most utility companies. And yet in 2020, over 10 million acres burned as the result of roughly 60,000 wildfires in the United States, many caused...