Petri has directed design, prioritization, and rollout across every major area of mWater and Solstice, working with CTO Clayton Grassick and a growing international team.
The product serves organizations from village water committees to national governments. It works offline, supports low-end devices and 28 languages, and combines collection, governance, analysis, operations, and integrations in one free platform.
From basic forms to a multilingual, offline-capable operational system.
Professional analytics that non-technical practitioners can build and share.
Spatial analysis and infrastructure planning from community to national scale.
Connected records for infrastructure, customers, operations, and finance.
A deep analytical layer for governed, repeatable calculations.
Scale, safety, and accessibility for a global public-interest platform.
The complete internal changelog contains more than 300 dated releases. These milestones show how the platform moved from collection and visualization toward connected operational infrastructure.
KPI widget, cross-field table search, fiscal half-year expressions, and a redesigned map-layer selector.
Direct asset import, list views, image metadata, survey optimization, and the relaunch of hire.mwater.co.
Sanctioned AI access, workflow prefills, AI survey-report design, and improved large organization exports.
AI widget design, slicers, sections, drilldowns, dark mode, Admin Region questions, and map extent filtering.
Plain-language data integrations, datagrid calculations, Nearby Data, two-factor authentication, and map translations.
Workflows, signatures, Calculated Data Sources, customer and billing management, accounting, the Water Supply Planning Tool, AI survey translation, and major language expansion.
Encryption at rest, AI dashboard translation, customizable layouts, universal search, subqueries, and configurable water-system pages.
Vector maps, asset registries and questions, pipe mapping, forest and agricultural sites, dynamic pivots, custom map hoverovers, and a Bootstrap 5 interface.
Expression language, deduplication, organizations, deployments, water systems, spatial queries, GIS import and export, responsive dashboards, multilingual tools, recovery, and major performance gains.
No comparison table can capture every edition, add-on, or implementation. This one asks a narrower question: what does a WASH programme need to move from field observation to governed infrastructure data, decisions, service delivery, and finance?
mWater is deliberately broad, not universally deepest. Power BI is a more specialized business-intelligence product; Salesforce is a more extensive general CRM; QuickBooks is a fuller accounting package; and ArcGIS offers a much larger GIS ecosystem. mWater’s advantage is different: WASH teams can collect offline data, connect and transform external data with Integrator, maintain infrastructure and customer records, analyse and map results, coordinate work, track indicators, and manage billing in one purpose-built environment.
| Capability | mWater | KoboToolbox | ArcGIS Survey123 |
Power BI | Salesforce | QuickBooks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Offline field surveys | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | ◐ | — |
| Advanced form design | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | ◐ | — |
| Maps and spatial data | ✓ | ◐ | ✓ | ◐ | ◐ | — |
| Dashboards, KPIs, and analysis | ✓ | ◐ | ◐ | ✓ | ◐ | ◐ |
| No-code data integration and transformation | ✓ | ◐ | ◐ | ✓ | ◐ | ◐ |
| Infrastructure and asset registry | ✓ | ◐ | ◐ | — | ◐ | ◐ |
| Operational workflows and assignments | ✓ | ◐ | ◐ | — | ✓ | — |
| Customer and service records | ✓ | — | ◐ | — | ✓ | ◐ |
| Billing and accounting | ✓ | — | — | — | ◐ | ✓ |
| WASH indicators and water-system model | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — |
| One environment from field data to WASH operations | ✓ | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ |
How to read this: a half-circle is not a criticism. It often means the capability exists in a broader product family, needs configuration, or serves a different primary job. The final row is the strategic distinction: other combinations can cover the full journey, while mWater is designed around that journey from the outset.
Product scope checked 15 October 2026 against official documentation from mWater, KoboToolbox, ArcGIS Survey123, Microsoft Power BI, Salesforce, and QuickBooks. Packaging and capabilities change; this is a product-fit comparison, not a procurement specification.