Case Study: Esri achieves real-time GIS scalability and faster deployment with Microsoft Azure Container Service

Esri builds flexible mapping managed service in the cloud

Esri, a global market leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, faced a challenge as customers demanded real-time mapping for millions of IoT sensors and events per second, a scale its on-premises solution could not handle. To continue advancing its ArcGIS platform, Esri needed a new, highly scalable technology foundation and turned to Microsoft for a solution.

Microsoft's solution, built on the Azure Container Service and Azure IoT Suite, enabled Esri to create a flexible, cloud-based managed service. This provided the massive scalability to process millions of events per second, drastically reduced deployment time from days to minutes, and opened up new business opportunities with a higher class of customer. The result was a resilient platform that gave Esri and its clients unprecedented business agility for real-time and predictive mapping.

Esri

Adam Mollenkompf

Esri