IT for Research and Development
Why would your R&D organization need its own, specialized IT Services solution?
There are dozens of reasons. First and foremost, most IT Services groups, whether it’s internal IT or an outsourced provider, don’t have the specialized technical skill sets needed to support R&D applications or environments. Consequently the engineers are often dissatisfied with their IT provider and end up supporting the environments themselves which is clearly not optimal.
There are a myriad of Engineering design, development, analysis and data management tools that can exist in an R&D organization. It’s very difficult to find one person who can be good at them all. SPK has supported Engineering environments for over 12 years, and has various IT professionals niched in the multiple Engineering disciplines and applications. We can bring that collective knowledge in support of your environments.
Our IT consultants understand how R&D works. We know the pressures engineers work under, the product development lifecycle and processes, and we understand engineers. Many of our consultants were engineers themselves, and are aware of the high level of IT service that they require.
SPK and Associates IT services include:
- Engineering tool selection, implementation& deployment
- Design and Maintenance of your PLM environment
- Systems and Networking Management
- Compute Farm Management
- Engineering application help desk support
- Network maintenance
- Systems management services
