AES Ohio, AES Indiana, and MVLt are part of the AES Corporation, which is a global company of nearly 25,000 employees. Indiana and Ohio combined serve approximately one million customers…

An Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) uses real-time data from GIS in an electric distribution system to optimize energy flow through automated processes or by generating energy flow plans for…

Over the past 20 years, GIS has evolved into one of a key group of critical systems every pipeline operator and gas utility relies upon. While many systems are still…

With such advances like the introduction of Esri’s Utility Network, Geographic Information System (GIS) strategies are undergoing a transformation to become an integral part of enterprise business strategy. No longer…

It’s safe to say that a successful transition to Esri’s new ArcGIS Platform and Utility Network (UN) doesn’t happen by chance. There are a significant number of applications, IT infrastructure,…

Successfully Managing the Production Deployment of Large, Complex Software Systems You’re finally ready to go live. But are you really? Unless you have thoroughly thought through, planned out, and tested…

As you probably know, SSP Innovations has been primarily focused on providing Esri utility network services, building utility network products, and bringing our customer’s utility network implementations to life for…

The Utility Network is a demanding data model. Subnetworks are only created in full if the data has the correct connectivity. Critical attributes also need to be fully and correctly…

Since the initial blog post on this ESRI solution, it has been renamed to ‘Gas Distribution Data Management’ which focuses more on the utility’s gas distribution assets. However, the solution…

All too often organizations begin a technology project and task a project manager to execute their typical PM responsibilities and attempt to also address as many change management aspects as…

There is an increasing awareness in the technology space that change management is an important component to the execution of a successful implementation project. As a forward-thinking organization, it is…

I’ve been in the GIS business for a long time. I have performed almost every job role within our company, including many positions focused on technology evangelism, customer education, and…