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SEP Wins TechPoint’s 2025 Exceptional Employer Mira Award

SEP Recognized as Indiana’s Top Tech Employer, Winning TechPoint’s Prestigious Mira Award Westfield, Indiana – SEP has been named Exceptional Employer by TechPoint at the 26th annual Mira Awards. This award recognizes companies that are developing talent through skills-based hiring…
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Elastic Search, LogStash, Kibana and Beats

I attended the Indy DevOps meetup last week to learn about Elastic Search, LogStash, and Kibana. Also known as the ELK stack. The speaker, Adis Cesar a Solution Architect at Elastic, also talked about something called Beats. What is Elastic Search? Elastic Search is a distributed computing platform for rapidly searching text. The inventor of Elastic Search built […]
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Why consider a Data Warehouse?

The need to collect, store and analyze large amounts of data continues to increase in importance for businesses across all industries. Marketing agencies have led the pack in processing large amounts of data in order to gain consumers attention in a crowded space. However, virtually every other area is beginning to see the value in […]
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SEP expands with the opening of a new software product design studio

SEP expands with the opening of a new software product design studio CARMEL, Ind. (January 5, 2017) ─ Software Engineering Professionals (SEP) is expanding its Carmel, Ind. operations with the opening of the new SEP Product Design Studio. The new space is an immersive, collaborative environment to assist in the development of software products and […]
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Starting Full-Time At A Place That Is Hard To Define

I knew I could grow there—fast. That’s how I respond when asked why I chose to work for SEP. Subsequently, my co-workers later told me they felt they ‘just knew’ I was a fit for this culture and the work we do here when I asked them why I was chosen. Knowing which job to […]
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5 Tools to Help Your Blog Post Shine

I have had blogging conversations around the office a lot lately and I thought it was finally time I wrote some of these tips I share with our engineers down. These are 5 tools to help make your blog posts shine. Hemingway Editor This is definitely my favorite go-to program lately. The HemingwayApp highlights common word problems […]
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Why Does Every Pixel Matter?

Why is the UI designer making me move something just 1px over? Does that 1px even matter? The quick answer is yes, it does matter. I can give you the answer in design speak and say it’s all about balance, consistency, and maintaining the grid, but I don’t think that does it full justice. Below […]
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Changing the Way Companies Innovate

Companies are searching for new ways to innovate. They’d like an innovation pipeline that results in successful products. They want to validate product ideas early and only develop those with a great chance of success. Innovation today requires a plan and new approach. Watch the presentation HERE!
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Why I Like Being An Interaction Designer

You know when people say, “I can see you as a (insert career title, oftentimes a common one and easy to define, here).”? Well, I never got Interaction Designer in that insertion. I discovered that I wanted to be a interaction designer not because it was a choice in a career questionnaire test or looked […]
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Faster Feedback through Build Pipelining

As an industry, we’ve dedicated a lot of effort into getting better feedback faster. We’ve embraced small batches of work (iterations) that we can deliver and receive feedback upon faster. We perform user studies and observe people interacting with the software we create. We use clickable wireframes or paper prototypes to evaluate the effectiveness of […]
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