ArcGIS Telecom Management

What do you like best about the product?

In my opinion the ecosystem is extremely comprehensive, its very easy to use and intuitive.

What do you dislike about the product?

Licensing and extensions can become expensive as the platform scales and maybe some workflows can be complex for new users.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

ArcGIS help us organize, analyze and visualize geospatial data efficiently. It enables better spatial decision and improve collaboration between our team.

What do you like best about the product?

What I like most about ArcGIS is the accuracy and reliability of its drone data processing. It consistently produces high-quality 2D and 3D outputs, which are essential for my professional estate management use cases, such as building construction inspections and modelling. Another standout is its seamless integration with the wider ArcGIS ecosystem, which makes it easy to combine drone-derived data with existing GIS layers and supports better decision-making across teams. Finally, ArcGIS’s enterprise-grade security and scalability are a major plus.

What do you dislike about the product?

One of the biggest issues for me is stability. ArcGIS can occasionally crash, especially when I’m working with large datasets or more complex drone projects, and that disruption breaks my workflow. The update and installation process is also frustrating in an enterprise environment. Updates often require administrator privileges, which makes things cumbersome in large organisations where we rely on central IT teams to handle installations and keep the software up to date. Another major drawback is the poor integration with Microsoft OneDrive, which adds extra friction when trying to manage or share files through that platform.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Esri ArcGIS helps us tackle the challenge of managing a complex estate and campus environment by providing a single, authoritative spatial system. For our university and estate management needs, it lets us bring together building footprints, utilities, land ownership, access routes, drone imagery, and asset information into one consistent map. As a result, estate teams have a clear, shared understanding of the campus, with less reliance on fragmented drawings, outdated plans, or siloed spreadsheets.

It also improves visibility and supports better decision-making across the estate. With ArcGIS, we can monitor buildings, open spaces, and infrastructure, assess conditions, support maintenance planning, and visualize change over time. Being able to combine drone data with our existing campus maps helps us quickly understand site constraints, plan works more effectively, and communicate potential impacts to stakeholders in a clear, visual way.

Finally, ArcGIS strengthens coordination and communication across departments. University maps can be shared through web maps and dashboards, so estates, facilities, planning, and management teams are working from the same information. This improves efficiency, reduces duplication, and supports more informed, evidence-based decisions when managing a large and evolving university estate.

What do you like best about the product?

Simply the best cartography and geospatial analytical software. The updates in Pro since its launch have not only upgraded the current Pro experience, but also expanded greatly on the original ArcMap software I learned on. It is much more user-friendly and easier to learn to use than the original software. The many analyses and geo-tools you can use make visualization and analysis much clearer and useful.

What do you dislike about the product?

Honestly, I wish there were a free version that could compete with other open-source mapping services. It makes sense that ArcGIS Pro is marketed towards professionals and companies with budgets that make sense to invest in the software, but a free, limited version would be great to help people learn geospatial analysis and have a fun and easy-to-use mapping tool.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I frequently use tools like network analysis and link to data sources using SQL and ArcPy. Creating model builders and Python scripts helps me to control and re-run annual tasks and workflows in geospatial analyses. The data cleaning tool helps to get data in order and prepped for analyses and/or charts that set up dynamically next to my map.

What do you like best about the product?

It's simple to use easy to access and use It's tools. Whether it's editing spatial data or creating new dataset it's alway comes in handy for me. I used it for completing project.

What do you dislike about the product?

There are not much drawbacks of ARCGIS but some times adding data becomes too complicated between differenct versions and other thing is when we transfer data from someone's work station sometime it value of datasets becomes changed. Nothing else.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's helped me over my career where my responsibility is to find erros in data created by other team. I was responsible for marking those errors and correcting them. Making correction in that data was my duty. So it benefitted me over my career.

What do you like best about the product?

Best platform to use for GIS data on the market. Easy to use and implement. Customer support is great as well.

What do you dislike about the product?

Not enough collaboration with smaller companies.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using it in conjunction with Transportation data from other platforms that work closely with ESRI products.