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…

I introduced a new initiative here at SSP back in June called Shark Tank. Here’s a link to my original article if you missed it . In short, when we’re…

2021 has been an exceptionally busy year at SSP Innovations. We kicked off the year by announcing our acquisition of 3-GIS which expanded our utility products and services into the…

Towards the beginning of the year, I wanted to play with the new selection-based display in the ArcGIS Dashboard beta (which is now out of beta!). I had been hoping…

Being an electric utility that has adopted Esri for your GIS need, you are likely considering what a transition to the Utility Network (UN) will require. It is important to…