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Michael Roberts

Evaluating Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for Atlassian Cloud

Evaluating Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for Atlassian Cloud

Cloud-based solutions have become really important for companies in recent years. With their flexibility, scalability, and better teamwork enablement, cloud-based solutions are a bit of a no-brainer. Companies like Atlassian create software tools that do exactly this:...

Atlassian Team ’23 Recap

Atlassian Team ’23 Recap

Atlassian Team ‘23 in Las Vegas, NV 2023 was SPK and Assosciates first event as a newly recognized Atlassian Gold Solution Provider. And, the overall event.did not disappoint. The Atlassian Team 23 announcements included a plethora of new updates. If you weren't one...

PTC Windchill Proven Business Outcomes And Customer Reviews

PTC Windchill Proven Business Outcomes And Customer Reviews

We’ve written a number of blogs on the benefits of PTC Windchill. But we also know there’s no greater power than proof in the pudding. You don’t just want another article telling you that PTC Windchill is the best Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tool. You want to...

Accelerating Products to Market with SAFe 6.0

Accelerating Products to Market with SAFe 6.0

Accelerating Products to Market with SAFe 6.0 Earlier in March 2023, Scaled Agile, Inc., provider of SAFe®, the world’s most trusted system for business agility, announced two new flagship products: SAFe® 6.0 and SAFe® Studio. SAFe 6.0 is the latest version of the...

Atlassian News Q1 2023 and What To Expect at Atlassian Team 23

Atlassian News Q1 2023 and What To Expect at Atlassian Team 23

In 2023, Atlassian continues to evolve with new product features, target markets and demographics. This is keeping their leader status for collaboration and productivity tools. Atlassian software is used by thousands of companies worldwide to manage projects, track...

The Top 9 DevOps Trends For 2023 And Beyond

The Top 9 DevOps Trends For 2023 And Beyond

Firstly, if you’re unfamiliar with DevOps, you can check out this video that covers all the basics and how it will benefit your company. But, essentially DevOps is about integrating software development practices, and the processes and procedures of IT Operations. In...

Cloud Security: The Shared Responsibilty Model Explained

Cloud Security: The Shared Responsibilty Model Explained

Transformative tech trends like the internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR) and dispersed workforces have increased cloud adoption. Why? Because it provides the ability for agility, productivity, and scalability like no other...

Solving for the “Islands of Jenkins”

Solving for the “Islands of Jenkins”

In October 2022, I wrote a blog post entitled “Scaling Jenkins for the Enterprise”.  Within it, I described the “Islands of Jenkins” problem organizations face. Essentially, this problem stems from companies using an open-source Jenkins installation for each team, but...

The Top Reasons to Pick Premium Atlassian Cloud Plans

The Top Reasons to Pick Premium Atlassian Cloud Plans

As I engage with clients in their journey to Atlassian Cloud, I am often asked about capabilities that differentiate the different Atlassian Cloud plans.  “What’s the difference between Standard, Premium, and Enterprise?”  Because there has been a theme to the...

2022 Technology Year in Review

2022 Technology Year in Review

In the past 3 years, our world has definitely changed.  This year was no exception.  From the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic to the great resignation, businesses have had to adapt to changing government regulations, employee needs, and methods of doing business. ...

Latest Atlassian Product News from Q4 2022

Latest Atlassian Product News from Q4 2022

As we do every quarter, SPK’s team reviews the latest Atlassian product updates.  In this blog post, we’ll cover announcements that happened between September 2022 and December 2022.  As you probably know, Atlassian updates their Cloud and on-premise products on a...