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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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SEP’s Ryan Schade Named Finalist for Tech 25 Emerging Leader Award

Westfield, IN—SEP proudly announces that Ryan Schade has been named a TechPoint Tech 25 Emerging Leader Award finalist. This award shines a spotlight on Indiana’s most innovative and impactful tech leaders – those who are leading innovation, creating solutions, and driving their organizations forward in incredible ways. Ryan began as a software engineer with a […]
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SEP Named Finalist for the 2025 Exceptional Employer Mira Award

Westfield, IN – SEP is excited to share that it has been named a 2025 Exceptional Employer Mira Award finalist. This award, presented by TechPoint, honors companies that support talent development, diversity, and community impact while fostering a great workplace culture. The Mira Awards are known as Indiana’s biggest celebration of technology and innovation. They […]
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Thriving In Our ESOP Era 🫶
Since 2010

At SEP, we’re passionate about what we do but even more about the amazing people behind it all. We’ve always cared about our team, but things really kicked up a notch in 2010 when we launched our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). So, what’s an ESOP? The details get complicated quickly, but it’s essentially a […]
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AgileIndy 2024 Recap: Learning, Networking, and SEP Insights + Jeff Patton Keynote Replay

We had a fantastic time at AgileIndy 2024! SEP was well-represented, with multiple speakers sharing their insights during the event, and we truly enjoyed the sessions. From engaging breakouts to networking opportunities, it was a great chance to connect and learn alongside fellow Agile practitioners. If you missed the event or want to rewatch your […]
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Agile Indy 2024 Trip Report

Agile Indy 2024 From the AgileIndy site: AgileIndy is a user group devoted to raising awareness, acceptance, and support to people who explore and apply agile values, principles, and practices to make building software solutions more effective, humane, and sustainable. This year’s conference took place on Friday October 18th at 502 E Carmel Dr, Carmel, […]
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Professional Development Hack: Keep it fun with a company hackathon!

It’s no secret that we love our hackathons at SEP. These semi-annual weekends are one of our favorite traditions for so many reasons, including the fact that they are chock-full of professional development learning opportunities. With any combination of experience and expertise from our team, we find that working together to tackle personal projects or […]
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Why We Critique: How to Make Peace with Your Fear of Design Critique

Designers, no matter their practice, have gone through some form of design critique in the past. Someone had to critically point out how the work needed to improve during the educational years. University programs are specifically structured with formal critiques in their curriculum; these help students get critical feedback to expand their thinking and learn […]
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Forwarding USB connections through Hyper-V — or anywhere on your network!

My development workflow revolves around virtual machines: I have dev VMs for multiple concurrently-running projects. Some are Windows, some are Linux. My hypervisor of choice used to be VirtualBox, but with the introduction of VBS, VirtualBox has become extremely slow because it’s forced to function under Hyper-V. So I switched to just using Hyper-V by […]
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10 Eye-Opening Uses of AI in Aircraft Planning & Scheduling

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming all industries. Aviation is no different, except that it has been an early adopter. AI planning and scheduling is one of the most promising applications. AI can automate tasks, optimize schedules, and improve efficiency in various ways. A Birds-eye View of AI in Flight Current Uses of AI in […]
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