Please check for the Esri IMGIS 2020 Proceedings soon to learn more about these customers and their journey from ArcMap to Pro and Productivity. These early adopters are critical to the success of the industry as a whole as they have truly partnered with SSP and Esri to work through software issues, functionality gaps, and implementation patterns that will allow the rest of the world’s utilities to move forward with the utility network with less risk and much more reward. Thankfully, Esri and Schneider Electric have extended their support of the legacy ArcMap/ArcFM™ products to 10.6.1 and now the 10.8.1 versions of the software which give us the much needed extra runway to plan, validate, and execute the utility network migration projects for all of the customers in the industry. But June 2021 is QUICKLY approaching and there was honestly no way we would have ever had the time or staff to get all of our valued customers migrated to the new platform by then! That original retirement date has since motivated a large number of utilities to make their move to ArcGIS Pro and the utility network. If you had asked me two+ years ago what the plan was, I would have told you that 10.2.1 would be the last utility-supported version of ArcMap with support expiring in June of 2021. As I mentioned above, we’ve been talking about the retirement of ArcMap for years now. This is really great news for the entire industry including SSP’s customer base.

And that customers should ideally finalize plans to move their production systems to ArcGIS Pro in advance of that date. “We do not have plans to release an ArcMap 10.9 with the ArcGIS release in 2021… While continued support has a timeline, ArcMap does not.”Įsri has now announced that ArcMap version 10.8.1 will be the last and will be supported until March 1, 2026.

While we’ve been talking about the retirement of ArcMap for years now, Esri has just finally made it official via a recent blog post by Javier Angel where Esri states:

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