esri portugal, s.a. nif 501941231

What esri portugal, s.a. nif 501941231 does

Esri Portugal - Sistemas e Informação Geográfica, S.A. is the exclusive territorial distributor of Esri Inc.'s ArcGIS platform in Portugal, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe, operating from Lisbon since 1987. The company sells ArcGIS software licenses and subscriptions (ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Pro, and the broader Esri Geospatial Cloud) alongside a portfolio of web, mobile, and server applications — including ArcGIS StoryMaps, Dashboards, Survey123, QuickCapture, Tracker, Web AppBuilder, GeoEvent Server, Image Server, Excalibur, Hub, Business Analyst, Urban, and Living Atlas content. It also distributes specialized solutions such as ArcGIS Business Continuity, ArcGIS Indoors, and ArcGIS Pro for Intelligence.

The company's business model combines subscription-based software licensing (with an annual Maintenance Program covering updates, remote technical support, e-learning, and Disaster Response access) with technology consulting services (system integration, configuration, application development) and certified ArcGIS training delivered via the ArcGIS Academy. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. Go-to-market is a direct enterprise field-sales motion targeting government agencies, municipalities, civil protection entities, water utilities, defense organizations, and large enterprises, supplemented by a self-serve ArcGIS Online channel and an Esri Store e-commerce front.

Esri Portugal's customer base skews heavily to the Portuguese public sector and municipal government, with flagship deployments at Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Câmara Municipal de Viana do Castelo (SAG Award 2020), EMAS de Beja, Águas de Gaia, Águas do Tejo Atlântico, INE (Geocensos), and EMGFA/CISMIL. The company is positioning to expand enterprise and private-sector adoption through AI + Location Intelligence capabilities (including GeoAI pre-trained deep learning models for Sentinel-2 imagery and machine-learning-based predictive analytics), supported by multi-channel demand generation including the annual EUE user conference, WhereNext Magazine content marketing, webinars, LinkedIn presence, and an active podcast. No revenue, headcount, funding, or ownership structure is publicly disclosed.

Name

esri portugal, s.a. nif 501941231

Legal name

Esri Portugal - Sistemas e Informação Geográfica, S.A.

Website

https://esri-portugal.pt

Company type

Private

Founded year

1987

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Exclusive distributor of Esri's ArcGIS platform in Portugal and three Lusophone African countries since 1987, providing GIS software licensing, technology consulting, and certified training to government, municipal, utility, and enterprise clients.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Lisbon

HQ country

Portugal

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. ArcGIS Software Licensing and Subscriptions: Esri Portugal distributes ArcGIS software licenses and subscriptions, offering flexible deployment options including cloud (SaaS), on-premises, and hybrid infrastructure. The platform supports organizations through the Esri Maintenance Program which provides software updates, remote technical support, e-learning, and access to the Disaster Response Program and ArcGIS Solutions.
2. Technology Consulting Services: Technological consulting services provided to help clients implement, configure, and optimize ArcGIS solutions for their specific organizational needs.
3. Certified ArcGIS Training: Certified training programs on ArcGIS technology delivered online and in-person, adapted to the participant's schedule, background, and experience level.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Esri Portugal is the exclusive distributor of Esri Inc.'s ArcGIS geospatial platform in Portugal, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe. The company sells ArcGIS software products and subscriptions and wraps them with local professional services — technology consulting, systems integration, custom application development, certified Esri training, and ongoing technical support — for public-sector and enterprise clients.

Product overview

Esri Portugal distributes and supports the ArcGIS platform — the Esri Geospatial Cloud — across Portugal, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and Sao Tome and Principe. The platform is a unified ecosystem organized around the core ArcGIS platform, which provides spatial analytics, mapping, visualization, real-time monitoring, 3D GIS, and imagery capabilities. The product portfolio spans desktop (ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Pro for Intelligence), cloud/SaaS (ArcGIS Online), on-premises (ArcGIS Enterprise), web applications (ArcGIS StoryMaps, ArcGIS Excalibur, ArcGIS Hub, ArcGIS Dashboards, ArcGIS Web AppBuilder, ArcGIS Business Analyst, ArcGIS Urban), mobile field apps (ArcGIS Survey123, ArcGIS QuickCapture, ArcGIS Tracker, ArcGIS Indoors), server components (ArcGIS Image Server, ArcGIS GeoEvent Server), curated data content (ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World), and specialized solutions (ArcGIS Business Continuity). The platform is programmable via APIs and SDKs and integrates AI/ML capabilities including predictive analytics, computer vision for satellite imagery, and deep learning for land cover classification.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• ArcGIS Online Cloud-based SaaS mapping and analytics platform from the ArcGIS family; used by organizations of all sizes to publish, share, and analyze geographic information via web browsers and mobile devices.

Quantifiable outcome

• EMAS de Beja achieved a 50.5% reduction in real water losses (97 to 48 liters/service connection/day), 19.8% non-billed water, and 67% fewer pipe bursts (2018–2020) using ArcGIS.
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability13 records

Feature9 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered key, flagship and minor.

• Águas do Tejo AtlânticokeyStrategic or Co-development PartnerEsri Portugal is developing a new GIS platform for Águas do Tejo Atlântico, a multimunicipal water and wastewater utility serving 2.4 million inhabitants across 23 municipalities. The platform, built on ArcGIS Portal, Web AppBuilder, and Explorer, centralizes geographic information and enables asset management, operational efficiency, and cross-departmental collaboration.
• Câmara Municipal de Viana do CasteloflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for the development of the Sistema Municipal de Gestão de Proteção Civil (SMGPC), a comprehensive civil protection management system using ArcGIS Enterprise, GeoEvent, Pro, Web AppBuilder, Dashboards, QuickCapture, Survey123, and Tracker. The system won the SAG Award 2020 from Esri Inc. for its innovative use of GIS in emergency management.
• EMAS de Beja (Empresa Municipal de Água e Saneamento)keyStrategic or Co-development PartnerEMAS de Beja uses ArcGIS technology for water loss management, achieving a 50.5% reduction in real water losses and 67% fewer pipe bursts between 2018-2020 — the best results in the company's history. Esri technology played a critical role in operational optimization.
• Águas de Gaia, EM S.A.keyStrategic or Co-development PartnerÁguas de Gaia partnered with Esri Portugal to innovate meter management using QR Code sealing and deployed ArcGIS for process optimization, productivity, work management, and democratization of GIS access across the organization.
• Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE)keyTechnology or IntegrationEsri Portugal partnered with INE to develop the Geocensos portal and GeoPackage census data, enabling spatial analysis of Portuguese census data in ArcGIS Pro. The portal provides access to BGRI (Base Geográfica de Referenciação de Informação) and GRID statistical data for the entire national territory.
• Estado-Maior-General das Forças Armadas (EMGFA) / CISMILkeyStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe CISMIL geospatial section of the Portuguese Armed Forces developed a GIS-based volunteer management dashboard for the SNS (National Health Service) during COVID-19, using ArcGIS technology to manage 1,155 volunteer processes and match the right volunteer to the right location.
• Corpo Nacional de Escutas (CNE)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership to develop the GEOSCOUTS platform using ArcGIS Online and Survey123, enabling the national youth organization (~70,000 members) to report scouting activities in real time to authorities for safety and coordination purposes.
• Câmara Municipal de Lisboa - Serviço Municipal de Proteção CivilkeyStrategic or Co-development PartnerLisbon's Municipal Civil Protection Service used ArcGIS Survey123 and Dashboard to collect and monitor advance voting data for citizens in COVID-19 confinement during the 2021 Portuguese presidential election, setting up the complete system in under 24 hours.
• European Space Agency (ESA)keyTechnology or IntegrationEsri integrates Sentinel-2 satellite imagery from the European Space Agency into ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World, providing 13-band multispectral imagery covering the entire planet every 2–5 days, accessible across all ArcGIS platform components for visualization and analysis.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Esri France: Direct peer — Esri Inc. distributor for France. Same exclusive distribution model, similar mix of public-sector, utility, and defense customers, and similar product, consulting, and training service lines.
• Esri Italia: Direct peer — Esri Inc. distributor for Italy. Same ArcGIS exclusive-distributor structure, with comparable exposure to municipal and water-utility digitalization agendas in a Southern European market.
• Esri UK: Direct peer — Esri Inc. distributor for the UK and Ireland. Closely comparable in model (exclusive ArcGIS distribution, government and enterprise focus, consulting, training) and is a useful benchmark for European Esri distributor scale.
• Esri Deutschland: Direct peer — Esri Inc. distributor for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Comparable exclusive-distributor model with deeper enterprise and engineering customer mix.
• Esri España (Esri Spain): Direct peer — sister distributor of Esri Inc.'s ArcGIS platform serving Spain. Same exclusive-distributor business model, same product stack, same consulting/training service lines, operating in the adjacent Iberian market.

Emerging players

• CARTO: Emerging player — cloud-native location intelligence and spatial-analytics platform serving enterprises and developers. Comparable in offering spatial analytics for retail, logistics, and enterprise use cases but as a SaaS-native, open-data alternative to the traditional Esri stack.
• Mapbox: Emerging player — developer-focused mapping and location platform providing maps, navigation, and spatial services. Comparable in serving enterprise customers with location-based products but positioned as a cloud-native, API-first alternative to ArcGIS for visualization and basic analytics.

Broad incumbents

• Trimble Geospatial: Broad incumbent — major geospatial technology provider with mapping, surveying, and spatial-analytics products. Comparable as a large enterprise GIS competitor with overlap in government, utilities, and infrastructure use cases.
• HERE Technologies: Broad incumbent — global location platform and mapping company providing geospatial data and services to enterprises and governments. Comparable in targeting enterprise/government location-intelligence use cases but at much larger scale and across a broader portfolio than Esri Portugal.
• Hexagon Geospatial (Hexagon AB): Broad incumbent — global geospatial software vendor (ERDAS, GeoMedia, M.App Enterprise) competing with ArcGIS in remote sensing, photogrammetry, and enterprise GIS. Comparable in targeting government, defense, and infrastructure customers but at parent-company scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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