5 ways GIS is modernizing across the public sector

Public sector GIS teams facing Esri product retirements and constrained staffing can modernize by auditing applications before migrating them, running spatial analysis directly in centralized cloud warehouses, consolidating permissions and audit trails, enabling self-service for routine questions through AI Agents, and integrating spatial data into existing BI and AI tools. The approach emphasizes identifying unused or outdated apps, eliminating duplicated datasets and synchronization delays, and using existing security controls such as role-based access, row-level security, and SSO to improve governance. GIS specialists retain responsibility for authoritative data and high-stakes outputs, while reusable workflows can allow nontechnical staff to answer common spatial questions more quickly. CARTO presents its cloud-native platform as a way to support these practices within warehouses including BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, Oracle, and other organizational systems, without copying underlying data.

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