Recent News

Industry Veteran Dennise Ramirez Joins SSP Team
Ramirez, most recently with Enspiria Solutions/Black & Veatch Corporation, joins SSP in a full-time Principal Consultant role. She brings decades of utility GIS project management experience to the company's ongoing and future projects, with a strong background in Esri and Telvent-related implementations and custom software design solving utility-wide business problems. Ramirez will serve as a key addition to the talented leadership pool SSP provides its clients.
[01/2012]

SSP Innovations Wins Upgrades Contract with CoServ
CoServ, a 130,000-member-owned electric cooperative based in Corinth, TX has selected SSP to perform GIS upgrades to version 10 of the Esri and Telvent software. Through its committed business partnership with GIS-industry leaders Swova, SSP will upgrade ArcFM, Designer, Responder, Geodatabase Manager, ArcFM Replication and ArcFM Viewer, as well as perform customizations and systems integration to WMS, CIS, SCADA and IVR systems. SSP also performed CoServ's previous upgrade to version 9.3.1.
[11/2011]

SSP Presents Two Papers to Large Audiences at 2011 EGUG Conference
At this year's Esri Electric and Gas User Conference, SSP's own Skye Perry and John Garrett of Garland Power & Light (TX) presented "GIS-Integrated Work Management for Small Utilities," which showcases the functionality of the company's popular new software, Workforce Management. Perry also teamed with Arnisa Davis and Steve Veltman from Memphis Light Gas and Water (MLGW) to discuss "Maximizing GIS Performance in Your Sleep" which covers functionality found in SSP's Nightly Batch Suite. Both talks were highly attended at the conference, which was held in October in Columbia, SC.
[10/2011]

Central Lincoln PUD Hires SSP to Perform Systems Integrations Work
This small utility in the Northwest has brought SSP on to create a custom data export which will help integrate their GIS system to a new outage management system (OMS). Central Lincoln PUD is based in Newport, Oregon and provides power to over 38,000 customers. Work on the project begins in October.
[09/2011]

Telvent Announces Partnership With SSP Innovations and Esri to Provide Work Management System to Small- and Mid-Sized Utilities
Telvent has announced a partnership with SSP and Esri to provide SSP's Workforce Management software to small- and mid-sized utilities in need of the major benefits of a centralized work management system for a minimal cost. The web-based tool, which features a tight integration to Telvent's Designer software and the Esri ArcGIS environment, has been implemented at two utilities already. See the press release here.
[08/2011]

Douglas County PUD Selects SSP Innovations to Lead Comprehensive GIS Implementation
The project will include implementation of an Esri ArcGIS geodatabase, Telvent's ArcFM, Designer, Fiber Manager and ArcFM Viewer for ArcGIS Engine solutions, and SSP's own Workforce Management work-order lifecycle software. Douglas County PUD provides retail electric service to around 18,000 customers, 24 broadband communication ISPs and 68 water customers within Douglas County, WA.
[07/2011]

SSP Launches Monthly e-Zine
SSP Innovations launched its new monthly e-zine, Energy Advisor, in June 2011. Energy Advisor is an email sent to a secured list of subcribers, containing helpful articles, tools, hints and sample code with the goal of helping utility personnel do their job better. Energy Advisor is distributed on the second Tuesday of each month. View the articles and sign-up for Energy Advisor HERE.
[06/2011]

SSP & GP&L Present to a Packed Room at Telvent Users Group Conference
SSP's Skye Perry and John Garrett of Garland Power & Light presented "Designer-Integrated Work Management for Small Utilities" and showcased the impressive functionality of SSP's newest project-ware, Workforce Management. The conference took place in Fort Collins, CO in March 2011. View the presentation slides here.
[03/2011]

Sales and IT Professional Dean Perry Joins SSP Innovations
Experienced in sales and software development, Perry joins the company as Sales & Account Manager. He'll lead SSP's accounts and marketing efforts, providing leadership for all client and partner interactions. He can be reached at 720.229.0227, and dean.perry@sspinnovations.com .
[02/2011]

SSP Innovations Announces New-Hire Corey Blakeborough
A recent graduate from the University of Northern Colorado, Blakeborough earned a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration: Computer Information Systems and worked as lead web developer for UNC's Monfort College of Business. As SSP's newest Software Consultant, Corey will use his extensive software development skills to assist with the design and execution of several ongoing projects.
[02/2011]

Utility GIS Industry Veteran Chris Cushenbery Joins SSP Innovations
SSP is proud to announce the addition of Cushenbery, who brings over 15 years experience as a software professional in this field. Chris most recently worked for Enspiria Solutions and ESRI as a Project Engineer and an Enterprise Consultant, respectively. As a Principal Consultant at SSP, he'll lend expertise and technical leadership to existing and new systems integration projects.
[01/2011]

SSP Wins GIS Integration for Northern Indiana Energy
SSP will be merging the ESRI GIS data from Kokomo & NIFL gas companies into the larger NIPSCO ArcFM GIS as part of the corporate merger scheduled for early 2011. This work will provide consolidated data management to the companies while further preparing them for their long term goal of integrating to IBM's Maximo.
[10/2010]

SSP Wins Custom Designer Implementation at GP&L
SSP will be implementing Telvent Designer along with a full integration to GP&L's work management system (also developed by SSP) including work request synchronization, costing, and CU management. Work begins in September 2010 with a go live date in Q2 2011.
[09/2010]

SSP Wins CoServ Upgrade Project
SSP will be responsible for the Telvent components of CoServ's upgrade to ESRI/Telvent 9.3.1. This will include custom upgrades to ArcFM, Designer, Responder, Geodatabase Manager, and ArcFM Viewer for ArcGIS Engine. Work will be completed in Q4 2010 alongside SWOVA.
[08/2010]

Telvent Selects SSP as an Implementation Business Partner
Implementation partners have a proven track record of success in working with and supporting the ArcFM Solution and can provide an array of services to customers including leading Telvent software implementations. SSP & Telvent will be working closely together in the future to provide seamless implementation and support services to our joint clients.
[05/2010]

SSP Wins First Telvent Responder Project
SSP has been retained by GP&L to assist with the implementation of Telvent Responder in 2010. The contract includes GIS and CIS interface project support along with ongoing production steady-state and upgrade support. This new opportunity will allow SSP to further expand their footprint into the ESRI-based outage management arena.
[03/2010]

ESRI Approves SSP as a Business Partner
ESRI and SSP have formally joined forces recognizing SSP's contributions to the ESRI Utility community. This partnership will allow SSP to more effectively support their GIS customers by streamlining all interactions with ESRI.
[02/2010]

SSP Develops Work Management System for Small Utilities
In 2010 SSP will work with GP&L to create the first version of WorkForce Management (WFM) which will become the utility's work management system for creating, managing, and working service/work requests. Work begins in March 2010. Phase 2 of the project will include an integration to Telvent Designer to allow for graphic design service requests.
[02/2010]

SSP Delivers Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) Project
The MLGW UASI project will allow the Memphis utility, the surrounding six counties, and several emergency response organizations to share GIS data across the organizations to streamline a coordinated response in the case of widespread disaster. The project was delivered as a standalone 7 server VMWare ArcGIS Server implementation in early 2010.
[01/2010]

SSP presents 2 papers at EGUG 2009
Skye Perry presents Empower Your QAQC: Tracking, Reporting, and Auditing All Edits in Your GIS and Erik Shepard presents alongside Nargis Ladha of Hydro One, Making Your GIS "Smart Grid Ready".
[10/2009]

SSP partners with MJ Harden to Win the ESRI/ArcFM Implementation for Memphis Light, Gas, and Water (MLGW)
SSP will implement several pieces of project-ware as well as manage the ArcFM implementation, systems integration, and various customizations. Work begins in November 2009 alongside MLGW, MJ Harden, and Ptarmigan Software.
[10/2009]

SSP Wins Hydro One GIS Data Migration Manager Contract
...to assist Hydro One in completing the conversion of various asset data collected in the field into their enterprise GIS. The work began in May 2009 alongside Hydro One located in Barrie, ON.
[05/2009]

SSP implements TM&M Extended Feeder Manager
...at Garland Power & Light in March 2009 to allow them to perform electric tracing and analysis from their generating plants thru their transmission, substations, and distribution.
[03/2009]

New Project-ware offering SSP All Edits Report & QA Tool
...is scheduled to be implemented at a third major utility and is now being offered as a reusable package that can be configured and installed at any ESRI site within a two week period. Click for a full overview
[01/2009]

SSP Owner Skye Perry presents "Get Your GAME-FACE On: Extending Your GIS to the Team"
...at EGUG 2008 - Discover the advantages of "Cradle-to-Grave" geospatial asset management and systems consolidation. Click for PDF
[10/2008]

SSP Wins NiSource Data Migration
...to ESRI and Maximo systems as part of their continued work in support of the NiSource GIS and asset management initiatives. SSP team members are working closely with the client and IBM to ensure the data is successfully mapped into the new systems.
[06/2008]