Real-Time AI Intelligence Meets GIS: Dataminr’s Native Integration with ArcGIS Velocity

The world doesn’t slow down for decision-makers. Events unfold in real time, and the organizations best positioned to respond are those that see what’s happening the moment it happens, not minutes or hours later. That’s the promise at the heart of the Dataminr and Esri partnership, and it’s never been more tangible than it is today.

As the 2026 Esri User Conference brings thousands of GIS professionals together in San Diego, U.S., this July, we’re highlighting a significant step forward in how our two platforms work together to deliver real-time situational awareness where it matters most.

A Native Connection That Customers Asked For

ArcGIS Velocity — Esri’s platform for real-time data ingestion and analytics — now includes native, built-in feeds for both Dataminr for Corporate Security and Dataminr First Alert. When Esri surveyed its customers on the most-requested data integrations for Velocity, Dataminr ranked among the top of the list. That’s not a coincidence. It reflects how central real-time event intelligence has become to how Esri customers operate.

The native Dataminr feed is now available with ArcGIS Velocity for ArcGIS Enterprise, with availability for ArcGIS Online coming this summer. For organizations already running ArcGIS workflows, this means Dataminr intelligence, drawn from more than one million public data sources and synthesized by multi-modal fusion AI, can be ingested directly into ArcGIS Velocity feeds. The result is lower latency, richer geospatial context, and faster awareness of events that affect operations, people, and assets.

How AI and Real-Time Intelligence Change the Picture

The gap between an event occurring and an organization knowing about it is where risk lives. Whether it’s a transit disruption, an infrastructure incident, or a fast-moving public safety situation, the ability to act in that window — before the situation escalates — is what separates a confident and informed response from a reactive one.

By connecting Dataminr’s AI-powered real-time event intelligence directly to ArcGIS Velocity, organizations can now:

• Visualize breaking events on a live map the moment they’re detected, overlaid with their own operational data
• Trigger real-time analytics that automatically surface alerts within a defined area of interest or proximity to critical assets
• Automate notifications to teams in the field via Slack, Microsoft Teams, SMS, or email — as events unfold, not after

This matters across a wide range of use cases. For transportation agencies, it means knowing immediately when an incident affects a route. For emergency management teams, it means having the earliest possible warning to coordinate response before events compound. And for public safety organizations, it means actionable context — not just a raw alert — arriving in the tools they already use.

Built for the Way GIS Professionals Work

The integration is designed to fit the workflows Esri customers already have in place without adding complexity. Setting up a Dataminr feed in ArcGIS Velocity takes minutes: connect, authenticate, and Velocity automatically samples incoming data and configures the schema. From there, real-time intelligence flows into stream and feature layers that can be embedded directly into ArcGIS maps, dashboards, and operational applications.

This is what it looks like when two platforms built for real-time performance work together to reduce the friction between intelligence and action.

What’s Next: Agentic AI on the Horizon

Real-time data integration is just one dimension of where this partnership is headed. In March, our team demoed an agentic AI workflow that showed what’s possible when Dataminr Intel Agents and Esri’s platform operate in concert: detecting a breaking event, using agents to query an organization’s proprietary asset and location data in Esri, and surfacing a prioritized, client-tailored response — automatically, in seconds. The reception from the audience was strong, and it points to where the next chapter of this partnership leads.

We’ll have more to share on this front in the coming months, and for now, the native Velocity integration is an exciting and impactful step forward in delivering real-time value to our shared customers.

See It at 2026 Esri User Conference

If you’re attending Esri UC in San Diego from July 12–17, we’d love to connect. Stop by to see how Dataminr and ArcGIS work together in action, and talk through how real-time event intelligence can strengthen your organization’s situational awareness.