IT Service Management (ITSM) does more than just offer IT support. At SPK and Associates, we see it as a key to delivering seamless IT services from start to finish. Because technology is at the heart of every business team today, ITSM supports various technologies...
Does your software development organization have a well defined and implemented configuration management (CM) process? For many organizations, they equate the CM process with having a revision control tool in place. While versioning is a necessary prerequisite to...
STRATTEC Security Corporation deployed PTC Windchill to replace its existing product lifecycle management (PLM) solution. Additionally, they wanted to improve product design tracking and collaboration. Nucleus found that PTC Windchill PLM enables increased...
SRAM deployed PTC Windchill PLM to integrate and unify the engineering processes for all its brands. The company’s rapid growth through acquisition resulted in engineering and development groups that were not able to communicate and share information across...
Process automation releases your engineers for the work their brains are intended for. That work is creativity and problem-solving. By implementing process automation, you improve the team’s morale. Firstly, they get more focus time for deep work and designing better...
In this blog we'll explore how the Windows UWF, Unified Write Filter can help protect device storage against product cybersecurity. The Unified Write Filter (UWF) is a Windows native feature that ensures a system’s data remains as an unmodified, secure baseline. Data...
There’s simply too much information. We all know this. So how can the “single pane of glass” (SPOG) dashboard simplify quantitative data? And why is data driven analytics of interest to companies? Every day, more data arrives in our inbox – text messages, reports,...
How Hybrid Cloud solutions boost manufacturing businesses Hybrid cloud migration is becoming more and more prominent. Why? Well, the cloud has been proving its worth for years now. In particular, it showed exceptional value, capability and adoption at the peak of the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og6826J7EOo Video Transcript: I'm Carlos Almeida, VP of Engineering at SPK and Associates. I've spent most of my professional life doing software engineering. 25 years plus in the world of high tech in the electronic design automation...
BackgroundSPK was contacted by a software company that provides healthcare cost optimization through a web platform. Their mission is to provide customers with a method to reduce spending while maintaining quality healthcare for their employees. With an expanding...
BackgroundA major fintech and financial services firm implemented Electric Flow (now known as CloudBees CD) for software deployment. The organization spent too much money on man hours for weekend and overnight hours due to the need for engineers to “babysit” software...
The ClientFounded in the early 1900’s, this major insurance provider administers health benefits to more than 4 million individuals. Because of the types of services this client provides to its customers, they are heavily reliant upon software technology and technical...