There are many questions to be answered before understanding how your data will look in the UN. Below are a just few examples: How is your data structured now? What…

If you've been reading SSP's blog for any length of time - you know how deeply involved and committed SSP is to Esri's Utility Network solution, through the original pre-release…

We have seen a lot of positive changes as a result of this growth. One of those changes is that we can hire more specialized resources. A small organization can’t…

How many times have you been given multiple sources of data and been tasked to compile them into a single GIS product? Yeah, probably too many to count. I can…

Here at SSP, we are in the business of GIS for utilities. A lot of times we’re asked about generating standardized reports from data in a client’s GIS. We call…

Maybe it’s a dumb ask, but shouldn’t there be a map that shows how bad mosquitos are? I can’t find one anywhere. Every map hits some specific data point like…

When discussing Organizational Change Management (OCM), an organization leader may vocalize concern regarding what value the business will receive from adding OCM to their project scope. This conversation most likely…

SAT also known as Site Acceptance Testing (and often used interchangeably with System Acceptance Testing), can often be a repeat of Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) test cases. Often enough, it’s…

If your organization has been discussing moving your GIS platform into the cloud, you are not alone. Cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform…

Esri recently launched an ArcGIS Solution for managing gas utility data in ArcGIS Online.  This is a pretty slick solution configuration and one that is definitely worthy of more than…

For most of us the origin of food doesn’t even factor into our lives. Modern supply chains and efficient global transportation has made an overwhelming variety of foods available to…

Previously, on the topic of communication between multiple systems, we looked at methods of intercommunication between SSP Lifecycle Work and ArcFM™ Designer. In that article, we largely focused on direct…