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How To Reduce Engineering Licensing Fees

How To Reduce Engineering Licensing Fees

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to reduce your annual engineering licensing fees, such as your SolidWorks license cost, while still providing application access to the same number of engineers? Isn’t it frustrating to have to pay for an expensive license for a user...

2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for IT Service Management Tools

2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for IT Service Management Tools

Atlassian ITSM named as a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant 2021.  Atlassian ITSM has a high-velocity approach to digital transformation. This enables Development, IT and Business teams to collaborate seamlessly. Atlassian are an end-user focused, tech-market...

What Does DevOps Look Like In The Small Or Mid Market Enterprise

What Does DevOps Look Like In The Small Or Mid Market Enterprise

https://youtu.be/gcnx_xT1OKc Overview Here is the VLOG transcript for Chris McHale, CEO of SPK, and Director of Cloud and DevOps, Mike Solinap, discussing what DevOps services and DevOps consulting services look like in the Small or Mid Market Enterprise. Your hosts...

Using Product Data For Product Managers And Engineering Operations

Using Product Data For Product Managers And Engineering Operations

https://youtu.be/Cr3ZdbkU8U0 Here is the VLOG transcript for Chris McHale, CEO of SPKAA, and District Manager, Ed Chung, discussing the importance of data, dashboards, PowerBI and visualisation tools for Product Managers And Engineering Operations. Hi everybody! I’m...

Extending CloudBees SDA Analytics

Extending CloudBees SDA Analytics

CloudBees SDA Analytics has more power than you think One of the main features of CloudBees SDA is CloudBees Analytics, powered by ElasticSearch. It’s a powerful tool for displaying continuous integration data and there are loads of useful metrics available from...

Is The IT Department Really “Dead?”

Is The IT Department Really “Dead?”

“It’s Time to Get Rid of the IT Department.”  That was the title of an opinion piece recently published in the Wall Street Journal.  Provocative?  Sure.  My answer to this is not “yes,” but many of the author’s points are valid.  The Same Old IT Department? No, the IT...

Data Engineering vs Data Science

Data Engineering vs Data Science

The Crucial Importance of Data Engineering October 14, 2021 Data Engineering vs Data Science The terms “Data Science” and “Data Engineering” are often used interchangeably.  Years ago, Data Science was the term that encompassed most of the data related activities...

Accelerating Product Releases with Business Process Automation

Accelerating Product Releases with Business Process Automation

The beauty of business process automation How often have we entered the same information into two different systems and wondered, “Why do I have to waste my time doing this?”  These are computers, aren’t they?  Shouldn’t this information flow where it needs...

SPK Wins 2020 Managed Service Provider Award

SPK Wins 2020 Managed Service Provider Award

We are thrilled to announce that SPK and Associates won the Channel Futures / Channel Partners 2020 Managed Service Provider (MSP) 501 Award for a second consecutive year! This prestigious award is widely viewed as the most comprehensive global survey of Information...

Podcast: How Secure are AWS and Azure Cloud Solutions?

Podcast: How Secure are AWS and Azure Cloud Solutions?

Hybrid cloud brings you the best of on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure. But how does it stack up in terms of security and compliance? Two of the biggest vendors in the cloud space, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, have kept pace with one another in...