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SSP Innovations offers a variety of blog posts that break down trending industry topics, including how to use the latest tools, what new releases to look for, and development tips specific to the systems you use. Browse for updates on the Esri roadmap, enterprise strategies, and how to get more out of your technology investments. Is there a topic you want to know more about or a question you want our team to answer in depth? Leave us a message in the comment form!

Utility Network Organizational Readiness

March 27, 2023 By: Dave DiSera

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…

A Bank/Unit Model for Utility Network

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…

Groundbreaking SSP Vision product completes first customer pilot project; scheduled for release in March 2023

February 6, 2023 By: Peter Batty

Ahead of next week’s DistribuTECH conference in San Diego, I wanted to share a quick update on the groundbreaking SSP Vision product, which I have been leading the development of…

Find SSP Innovations at DistribuTECH 2023!

February 2, 2023 By: Scott MacDonald

SSP Innovations is excited to participate in this year’s DISTRIBUTECH International® conference, the leading annual event for electric transmission and distribution technologies. We’re packing our bags for San Diego –…

SSP ActiveGIS MIMS 4.1 Highlights

January 18, 2023 By: Keith Hupperts

Copy Estimate – The Copy Estimate allows the designer to quickly copy an existing estimate/design into a new estimate and design, giving the user the ability to create multiple design…

Our Top SMART Goals to Help Your Team Transition to the Utility Network – Part 2

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.…

Top 5 SSP Blogs in 2022

December 13, 2022 By: Carrie Turner

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…

Getting Up and Running with the Pandas Library in Your GIS

December 12, 2022 By: Aaron Leese

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…

Using JupyterLab for Database Schema Discovery

November 7, 2022 By: Aaron Leese

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…

SMART Goals to Help You Transition to the Utility Network – Part 1

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…

The ROI of Organizational Change Management: Part II of a Cost-Benefit Framework Series

October 11, 2022 By: Heather Siemens

Perhaps one of the most important benefit perspectives is the probability of meeting organizational and project-specific objectives. Based on data published in Prosci’s 2020 benchmarking report (11th edition), projects that…

SSP ActiveGIS 4.1 Productivity Highlights

October 10, 2022 By: Bill Bott

A primary theme for this Productivity release has been improving user edit efficiency. To that end, this release features several special-purpose tools for common editing scenarios within the utility network.…