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SEP Wins TechPoint’s 2024 Innovation Service Partner of the Year Mira Award

SEP Recognized as Indiana’s Top Innovation Service Partner, Winning TechPoint’s Prestigious Mira Award Westfield, Indiana - SEP has been named the Innovation Service Partner of the Year by TechPoint at the 25th annual Mira Awards. The Mira Awards, Indiana’s largest…
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Even With Structure, The Possibilities are Endless

Poetry is an art form based on structure. The pinnacle of poetry studied by most everyone on their high school English class is the sonnet. As a refresher, a sonnet has 14 lines of iambic pentameter using a handful of rhyming schemes to group lines in to an octet that builds rising tension followed by […]
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Twenty-Five Years of SEP

Before Software Engineering Professionals (SEP) had a name or won over its first client, 24-year-old Jeff Gilbert and his three Rose-Hulman buddies were working in unsatisfying jobs, dreaming of creating an environment where they would want to work. “We wondered, what if the technical people were running the company. If we stayed focused on employees […]
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SEP COO Traci Dossett named 2013 Indy’s Best and Brightest Winner

Software Engineering Professionals™ (SEP) is excited to announce Traci Dossett has been recognized as the 2013’s Indy’s Best & Brightest winner in the field of Technology. Dossett began at SEP in 1993 as the company’s Accountant and Controller before being named Chief Operating Officer in 2011. She has been the driving force behind many of SEP’s philanthropic […]
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Shades of Grey

As professional football gets back in the swing of things, I’m reminded of one of the iconic plays from the sport: the Hail Mary. You have to score, but you have no time left and you’re on the wrong side of the field. So, what do you do? You throw the ball way up and […]
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2012 Corporate Giving Infographic

The Community Involvement initiative kick started by the four officers at SEP was a chance to put into action the goodwill SEP spreads among its employees and their families. Through programs such as Pay-It-Forward as well as fundraising and supply collection, SEP has encouraged its staff to become active members of the community through multiple […]
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Beware of the Simple Things

Beware of the Simple Things: 3 Flags to Look Out for in Domains Your new client already has a requirements document, and has been doing work in the domain for 10 years. They use simple concepts: reports, studies, projects, updates, project IDs, owners. They ‘just’ want to transfer their Access data into a relational database, […]
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5 Ways All Software Projects are Product Replacements

I was updating my bio at work for the last few projects I’ve been on since I was between projects. I looked back at some of the projects I’ve worked on and remembered the “good ol’ times”. Some projects were executed well and the client appreciated the outcome (read: warm fuzzies), while others produced a […]
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Have an NVS 4200M card in your laptop? Here’s how to use the laptop screen as a 3rd monitor

Last year I was issued a new laptop with an nVidia NVS 4200M video card. I was able to to hook two monitors up to it through a docking station and use the laptop monitor itself, for a total of 3 monitors. Good times! Recently, however, I had to get my machine reset so we […]
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Changing the Total Cost Discussion

Discussions with client representatives concerning hourly rates can be frustrating. The belief that an hour of any person’s (or supplier’s) time is exactly the same as any other is like comparing software engineering services to purchasing a case of creamed corn. Even this focus: Real Hourly Cost = Total Work Done/Hours to Do It …Doesn’t […]
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