SPK and Associates co-founder Chris McHale spoke with PLM expert Oleg Shilovitsky, founder of BeyondPLM.com, to get his top three product lifecycle management (PLM) predictions for 2015. PLM vendors will encounter greater complexity when delivering cloud solutions New...
Data Engineering
Challenges of Managing a BOM Across the Product Life Cycle (Part 2)
SPK and Associates co-founder Chris McHale spoke with PLM expert Oleg Shilovitsky of BeyondPLM, on the difficulty of BOMs across engineering disciplines. In part two of the discussion, they focus in on the difficulty of BOMs across the product life cycle.
Difficulty of BOMs Across Engineering Disciplines (Part 1)
SPK and Associates co-founder Chris McHale speaks with PLM expert Oleg Shilovitsky, founder of BeyondPLM.com, to get his insight on the difficulty of BOMs across engineering disciplines.
Top 6 Ways To Improve Your DevOps Journey
Knowing how to improve DevOps can be challenging. But, creating an integrated DevOps toolchain can set organizations apart from the rest. This is because having a well-defined business DevOps journey can reduce errors, improve collaboration and drastically increase...
Atlassian Team 22 Announcements – Part 2/2
Welcome back to Atlassian Team 22 Announcements This follow up blog deep dives into even more exciting Atlassian Team 22 updates announced in Las Vegas, April 2022. Read part 1, then explore part 2 below. Part 2 provides a deeper review on Atlassian’s DevOps...
Creating Dashboards To Reveal The Real Info
SPK comes to the aid of a major medical device maker to solve the mystery of why project-management and employee-utilization metrics couldn’t be trusted—and then fixed the problems, and created powerful dashboards for the CFO and other execs The Client In The...
What is Data Engineering?
Strictly defined, data engineering, which is also known as information engineering (IE), information technology engineering (ITE), or information engineering methodology (IEM), is a software engineering approach to designing and developing information systems. Data...
Data Engineering: Collecting, rationalizing, and compiling disparate data to make it dashboard-ready
SPK saves a global SaaS leader time and resources—6x faster than competing bids, saving nearly 75 percent in computing and licensing costs. The ClientA respected provider of SaaS (software-as-a-service) solutions for the global telecom industry was faced with a...
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...
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...
Creating a CI System
...Continuous Integration Best Practices (Part 2) As I noted in Optimal Continuous Integration Best Practices (Part 1), there are 10 best practice principles associated with Continuous Integration. In Part 1, we looked at the first three. For Part 2, we pick up where...
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...