Distributed workforces are commonplace in today’s manufacturing and IT worlds. More and more colleagues work remotely. Additionally, we use more data to drive decisions as the market competition increases. Alongside this, our businesses are expected to meet...
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SPK Is CloudBees Service Partner Of The Year 2022
Today, CloudBees announced that SPK and Associates has received CloudBees Service Partner of the year award in 2022. This includes exceptional efforts in developing new business, thought leadership, and products and services that complement CloudBees technology...
Latest News From PTC From Q3 2022
PTC have been leaders for the past 30 years. They’ve led the charge in helping manufacturers solve key business challenges to achieve their goals with digital solutions in real-world applications. PTC has a wide variety of products like ThingWorx, Creo, Onshape,...
The Top 4 KPIs For Data Teams
As a decision-maker in your small and medium business, you will be looking to drive your stability and growth. Data teams play a pivotal role in how you achieve this. After all, they are the team responsible for building, measuring, analyzing and reporting everything...
Value Stream Management and DevOps – Get Products to Market Faster
According to a definition from Forbes in 2019, Value Stream Management (VSM) is a lean business practice. It helps determine the value of software development and delivery efforts and resources. Additionally, it also helps to improve the flow of value to the...
Scaling Jenkins for the Enterprise
I’m Michael Roberts, Vice President for SPK. And I want to tell you the tricks for scaling your business effectively with a Jenkins enterprise solution. I'll also explain how to avoid, and remediate both a Jenkins monolith, and islands of Jenkins. In the early part of...
Cloud Service Provider Solutions: 2 Truths and 1 Lie
Cloud server provider options promise improved security, easier management, and lower costs. There is so much to digest when considering a cloud solution. So, we decided to highlight the two most important truths you need to know, and the biggest lie you should watch...
SPK and Associates CEO Honored for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I)
Christine McHale, CEO and Co-Founder of SPK and Associates, is among the honorees on the 2022 Channel Futures DE&I 101 list. The list recognizes individuals from a wide spectrum of multicultural backgrounds. These individuals are driving diversity, equity and...
Atlassian Increases Cloud Pricing Effective October 2022
On Tuesday, September 13, 2022, Atlassian announced via email to its Cloud customers that there are some pricing changes that will be effective on October 18, 2022. Atlassian said the pricing update reflects its continued investment in building powerful Cloud...
Latest AWS News for Q3 2022
With over 1100 product and service updates from AWS in 2022 alone, you may have missed some of the more important notifications from the cloud services giant. Luckily, SPK’s team is here to provide you with a summary of the latest and greatest from Amazon Web...
vCAD Accelerates Engineering for Small and Medium Business
Since releasing virtual CAD (vCAD) to the market in January 2022, SPK and its customers have discovered a realm of benefits and use cases. Virtual CAD has become the preferred platform for many customers already. It allows businesses to capitalize on a gig economy,...
Why You Should Be Using PTC Windchill As Your PLM Software
As a manufacturer, you have to be both structured and agile to constantly stay in line or ahead of the industry. You have to deliver quality products that meet the customer’s needs today whilst being future-proofed for tomorrow. Aside from that, you also need to...