On Friday, October 27, Systems Engineering's (SE) President, Matt McGrath, and Director of Engineering, John Sterling, presented University of Southern Maine (USM) student, Brennan Harvey,  with the Systems Engineering Scholarship. Brennan is currently a Junior at USM majoring in Computer Science. 

It is reported that around 269 billion emails are sent worldwide each day with 150(+/-) of those being delivered straight to each of your employee's Inboxes. According to Symantec’s 2017 Internet Security Threat Report, one in 131 emails contains malware. This means that on a daily basis every one of your employees is faced with emails that threaten the security of your organization’s data.

This blog post will review the systematic approach to trace back to the beginning of an issue or problem when quality breaks down within your IT environment. This process is known as a Root Cause Analysis, or RCA, and is an approach used to figure out how, where, and why an issued occurred. The best RCA will also answer the question of how to prevent the issue in the future.

Remember when Kodak held a dominant position in the photographic film? Maybe not, because in the late 1990s, photographic film sales had declined, and Kodak's slow transition to the digital camera in the early 2000s was a little too late. The problem was, they could not see beyond the traditional benchmarks, like picture quality. They needed to understand

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, 65% of future jobs have not been invented yet. What does that say about the work we are doing today and how we are doing it? What does that mean for the future? 

Systems Engineering (SE), a leading IT strategy integrator and managed IT services provider, has been named one of the 2017 Best Places to Work in Maine. The awards program is designed to identify, recognize and honor the best places of employment in Maine. This year, 80 companies made the list. Systems Engineering will be recognized at the Best Places to Work in Maine awards ceremony on October 10, 2017. At that event, the top 10 companies from each category, based on size — small (15-49 U.S. employees), medium (50-249 U.S. employees) and large (250+ U.S. employees) — will be announced. 

Systems Engineering (SE) is pleased to announce the continuation of its internship program in 2017.  This summer, we elected to have eight college students join our program, up from five participants last year.  Students come to us from a number of schools including, Southern Maine Community College, University of Maine (Orono), Roanoke College, Kennesaw State University, and Champlain College.