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Esri’s ArcGIS Basemaps Power Dataminr First Alert for Enhanced Real-Time Event Detection and Awareness

By: via Business Wire

New Integration Enables Government Organizations to Better Manage Large-Scale Events, Emergency Response, and More

Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, has partnered with Dataminr, the leading real-time AI platform, to enhance real-time emergency response for public organizations. Esri’s ArcGIS Basemaps will be integrated into Dataminr First Alert, a real-time critical event discovery solution. Used by public sector organizations around the globe for emergency and crisis response, diplomatic security, infrastructure protection, and more, First Alert will leverage Esri’s ArcGIS Basemaps to improve decision-making for customers. Over the next few months, Dataminr will transition current First Alert users to the new Esri basemap experience.

“By equipping First Alert users with Esri’s comprehensive and authoritative collection of basemaps, we are happy to empower organizations with the advanced geospatial awareness that only our location services can provide,” said Richard Cooke, Corporate Director of Global Business Development at Esri. “This integration will enable Dataminr customers to detect emerging threats earlier, visualize their proximity to critical assets, and make faster, more informed decisions.”

This new integration enables a single map-based operations resource for users who need real-time understanding of events and potential emergencies. By combining the power of mapping with AI, it will allow users to detect and locate emerging risks and events to provide the earliest possible warning significantly faster than traditional methods. Enhanced mapping performance and visual context enable accelerated understanding and decision-making.

“With Esri’s geospatial data as a foundation for First Alert’s operational picture, we’re creating a new standard for how the public sector manages and contextualizes risk through real-time, actionable insights,” said Brian Gumbel, President and Chief Operating Officer at Dataminr. "When minutes matter, knowing exactly what's happening, and where, is the key to an effective response."

Serving government and public safety organizations across more than 220 countries and territories, Dataminr is recognized as one of the world’s leading AI software providers. The company’s unique platform monitors more than one million public data sources, including images, video, and text in over 150 languages. Dataminr will begin migrating existing customers to ArcGIS Basemaps, with the transition to be complete by the end of the year. However, customers who would like to accelerate full access to Esri’s basemaps can reach out to their Customer Success Manager to initiate the process.

Public sector organizations can also learn more about integrating Dataminr's real-time AI platform into their existing Esri ArcGIS environment by reaching out to esri@dataminr.com.

To learn more about how Esri’s world-leading maps and location services can enhance real-time awareness and decision-making, visit esri.com/en-us/arcgis/products/arcgis-location-platform/overview.

About Dataminr

Dataminr has created a revolutionary real-time AI platform for detecting events, risks, and critical information from public data signals. The company’s world-leading AI platform performs trillions of daily computations across billions of public data inputs from more than one million unique public data sources. Dataminr is known for its trailblazing AI platform, which pioneered Multi-Modal Fusion AI—synthesizing terabytes of real-time data spanning text, image, video, sound, and sensor signals for accurate, real-time event, threat and risk detection across 150+ languages and 220+ countries and territories. The company also pioneered ReGenAI, a breakthrough form of Gen AI that automatically regenerates live event briefs in real time as events unfold. Powered by more than 50 proprietary large-language models, Dataminr delivers the earliest actionable information to enhance the security and resilience of organizations, infrastructure, and people. For more information, visit www.dataminr.com.

About Esri

Esri, the global market leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, location intelligence, and mapping, helps customers unlock the full potential of data to improve operational and business results. Founded in 1969 in Redlands, California, USA, Esri software is deployed in hundreds of thousands of organizations globally, including Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, nonprofit institutions, and universities. Esri has regional offices, international distributors, and partners providing local support in over 100 countries on six continents. With its pioneering commitment to geospatial technology and analytics, Esri engineers the most innovative solutions that leverage a geographic approach to solving some of the world’s most complex problems by placing them in the crucial context of location. Visit us at esri.com.

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