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Catching Up With: An-Louise DeKlerk of MTEMC

February 5, 2016 By: Matthew Stuart

SSP often works on more than one project with the same client. This allows us to get to know the client’s business inside and out – and it allows us…

Developers Wanted! – Recruiting Takes Priority in 2016

February 4, 2016 | By: SSP Innovations

SSP is starting 2016 with a strong recruiting presence. Our aim is to engage graduating rock stars who are looking for the fast paced environment and immediate impact that only…

Fiber Manager Cable Favorite Tool – Everybody Wang Chung Tonight

February 1, 2016 By: Brian Higgins

Post summarizing SSP's construction of an ArcFM Fiber Manager tool that I have wanted for years.

ArcGIS Online Killed the Printing Star

January 11, 2016 By: Brian Higgins

A chronological history of printing according to me.

What Are The Pipeline Transmission Database Options?

January 10, 2016 By: Clarke Wiley

SSP is here to help explore all the transmission database options that are available to manage your pipeline assets. What is the difference between a relational database implementation versus a…

Take Charge of Your GIS/ESB Integration (Part 2)

January 9, 2016 By: Joaquin Madrid, Ph.D.

This article is a follow up on our previous blog: Take Charge of Your GIS/ESB Integration. Here we focus on describing a standards-based implementation to the decoupled integration pattern: using…

Skye Perry Gives Compelling Keynote on the Future of GIS

January 8, 2016 By: Keith Freeman

Skye Perry, President and Founder, of SSP Innovations gave the keynote speech on the Future of GIS at the 2015 MAGIC Conference.

Celebrating 5 Years Writing for the Utility and Telecommunication Industries!

December 8, 2015 By: Keith Freeman

SSP has been writing for the utility and telecommunication industries for 5 years! We take a quick moment to reflect on this achievement and look at what's to be in…

Asset Searches in ArcGIS Online and Portal

December 7, 2015 By: Skye Perry

Esri has great tools for creating geocoding services that can be used for asset searches in ArcGIS Online and Portal. But we needed a way to automatically recreate the geocode…

Introducing the Esri 4.0 JavaScript API

December 6, 2015 By: Josh King

The new Esri 4.0 JavaScript API is shipping soon. Learn about some of the new capabilities this API has to offer.

Creating Circuits on Transmit/Receive Fiber Paths in GIS

December 3, 2015 By: John Coleman Matthew Stuart

Over the last couple of years, we've talked a lot about an SSP client that has a very complex Telecom network. Most recently,this client identified a need to associate two…

Custom ArcGIS Online Basemaps and the Magic Beans

November 16, 2015 By: Brian Higgins

Post summarizing ArcGIS Online backgrounds and the creation of custom backgrounds.