NI Water is celebrating after picking up an award at Esri's annual International User Conference in San Diego.

The company has won a Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award out of 300,000 eligible candidates for its innovative application of Esri's ArcGIS technology and for fully embracing the platform as a critical element of their day-to-day operations.

Jack Dangermond, Co-Founder and President of Esri Inc, chose the winning entry from those shortlisted and presented Sean O'Boyle, Asset Information Development Manager, with the award at the event.

Speaking at the conference, Mt Dangermond, said: "I'm delighted to present Northern Ireland Water with this prestigious award, in recognition of its impactful use of geographic information to improve service delivery for its staff and customers.

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"This year's winners have all, in their own way, used GIS technology in innovative ways to reveal hidden insights about the critical geography around them. The work our awardees are doing enables Esri to demonstrate how implementing location intelligence can help improve the ways that organisations, from national governments to small businesses, operate."

NI Water's Sean O'Boyle added: "It is a tremendous honour to receive this award in recognition of the hard work every member of the NI Water team has put into successfully adopting Esri's innovative ArcGIS solution.

"Esri Ireland were terrific in passing on their knowledge to the team, ensuring that when the system went live, we were fully capable of delivering an even better service to our customers via our in-house team of GIS Analysts."

Image: Sean O'Boyle ( NI Water Asset Information Development Manager) being presented with the award by Esri Inc President, Jack Dangermond.

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