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HCA and Risk Analysis for Liquids Operators: An Overview

September 6, 2017 By: Clarke Wiley Corey Staley, Integrity EPC, Guest Author

Facing increasing regulations around pipeline safety, some organizations refine their HCA and risk analysis for liquids operators with advanced technology.

How to Build a Web API with .Net Core

September 4, 2017 By: Sung Bae

This article explains step by step instructions on setting up a web API using RESTful practice with Visual Studio Code, .net core, and IIS.

Esri Utility Network – Reinventing Your GIS in the Utility Network

August 6, 2017 By: Joaquin Madrid, Ph.D.

Adopting Esri's Utility Network offers a unique opportunity to re-examine the role of GIS in your company. What should the GIS do for my department, and for the Enterprise as…

Roadmap for Community Broadband in the Digital Transformation

August 4, 2017 By: Ryan Potts

As technological innovations lead to increasing bandwidth demands, communities need to make sure they are providing their residents and local businesses with the broadband services necessary to participate in the…

SSP Team Building: A Paintball Adventure

August 3, 2017 By: John Sieben

SSP took a trip to Paintball Adventures for a day of bonding and shenanigans. After changing up our quarterly SSP team building event, we learned that change is hard, paintball…

Meter Panels and MTEMC

July 20, 2017 By: Matthew Stuart

Our long-running relationship with MTEMC has allowed us to design and develop some really cool new tools. This article will talk about the first of many.

Integrating GIS and CIS: Handling Versioned and Unversioned Data

July 6, 2017 | By: SSP Innovations

While working on a Designer™ integration project for MTEMC, we developed a solution to create a GIS relationship between a versioned feature class (a service location) and an unversioned object…

What is Logical Circuit Provisioning? How Does it Work with GIS?

By: John Coleman

Understanding telecommunications networks is not an easy undertaking. The infrastructure is quite complex and ever-changing. Your company may manage a telecom network today, or will be inheriting one in the…

Talk It Through: Three Ways to Collaborate with Partners On Large Projects

July 5, 2017 By: John Sieben

Large projects may require third-party partners to collaborate. What's the best way to proceed? Depending on your project, here are three strategies.

ArcGIS Web Services for Dummies

June 30, 2017 By: Diane Causey

There are no dumb questions about ArcGIS Web services. Nor are there any dumb people who use ArcGIS Web services. But ArcGIS Web services provide a powerful tool that supports…

PostgreSQL for ArcGIS Part II: Schema Owner and Permissions

June 27, 2017 By: Brian Higgins

Most SSP clients use Oracle or SQL Server as their GDB for ArcGIS. Today in Part II of our PostgreSQL series, Brian shows you the establishment of PostgreSQL for ArcGIS,…

Esri Utility Network – Editing with Associations: Connectivity, Attachments & Containment

June 9, 2017 By: Chris Sanders

Over the past several months, we’ve been looking closer at tracing, editing, and working directly with Utility Network data within ArcGIS Pro. This article will continue the review of editing…