Migrations are almost always complex and come with many different sets of requirements and considerations. Adding in an Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) integration coupled with a Utility Network implementation in…

Joint use management was made for the cloud. While joint use does not provide a great revenue stream, mismanagement opens an organization up to reputational, regulatory and legal trouble. A…

The purpose of Organizational Change Management (OCM) is to mitigate the risks of a project, including costs, schedule, and performance. OCM does this by facilitating greater business and financial value…

IT projects typically fail or do not go to plan, and GIS falls into that bucket. The Project Management Institute (PMI) has found that only 26% of project succeed. They…

There are few people in the world that think data migration from an existing system to a new one is a thrilling activity (if you’re one of those people, you…

In our experience, technology-related organizational readiness (often referred to as organizational change management) is only successful with a fundamental understanding that it’s much more than just upgrading or implementing new…

Although the industry understands that the Utility Network (UN) fulfills the vision to implement a modern GIS digital twin, its adoption still faces major challenges and obstacles, particularly within the…

In our last article Our Top SMART Goals to Help You Transition to the Utility Network - Part 1 we discussed the important role that preparation plays in technology transitions.…

Can you believe it’s almost 2023? Personally, I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around where this year went. But it is that time of year if we are…

Probably the most revolutionary-to-me thing I’ve learned in GIS/data science/computers/programming/python/yadda yadda yadda in the past 5 years is the pandas library in python (especially so, now that ESRI has introduced…

One of my favorite things about working at SSP is that I get to help people use data to make informed decisions about their operations. Python has been my go-to…

With the end of the year rapidly approaching many organizations are wrapping up yearly performance reviews and looking ahead to future initiatives. By now, nearly everyone is familiar with the…