GIS in Action 2026

In 2025, The Gartrell Group was contacted by BerryDunn, a national accounting and consulting firm. BerryDunn had a well-established and trusted analytical framework for assessing the quality, accessibility, and level of service offered by public parks. However, this methodology relied on legacy technologies, Microsoft Access and ArcMap, creating challenges related to manual project setup, fragile data relationships, and tools that were quickly approaching deprecation. As legacy platforms became difficult to maintain, they sought a modernization approach.
The Gartrell Group partnered with BerryDunn to modernize to an ArcGIS Pro environment. Development followed an iterative, sprint-based process with quality assurance embedded throughout. A dedicated QA team worked alongside developers to validate workflows, test scoring logic, and confirm analytical outputs against real use cases at each stage. The effort addressed core challenges identified by the team, simplifying complex workflows, enforcing data integrity across related datasets, supporting smooth transitions between office and field workflows, and enabling consistent, repeatable analysis and reporting. Processes were synthesized into one well-documented toolbox, eliminating the need for any additional software or tools. Through close collaboration between teams, the project successfully migrated a proven methodology into ArcGIS Pro, maintaining institutional knowledge while creating a future ready GIS foundation.