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Navigating Compliance and Cyber Security Concerns in Smart Medical Devices
A COMPLETE OVERVIEW OF SMART MEDICAL DEVICES, THEIR DEVELOPMENT AND THEIR COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS. While the Internet of Things offers great opportunities both for businesses and consumers, compliance and security must be thought through carefully from the very...
Blog: How AWS Cloud Solutions Can Help Your Manufacturing Enterprise Maintain Its Competitive Edge
In manufacturing, cloud solutions provide breathtaking results. like reducing line stoppages by 98 percent, an 86 percent reduction in on-site inventory and a 10 percent increase in overall productivity. Read our white paper, This paper discusses how hybrid cloud...
SPK Earns Place on MSP 501 List of Top Managed Services Providers in the World
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., Aug. 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- SPK and Associates, LLC (SPK) is excited to announce our recent award as one of 2019's 501 most elite Information Technology managed service providers in the United States. The Channel Futures /...
Engineering Inefficiency is the Enemy of Innovation
I was intrigued by the information and conclusions presented in OnShape’s recent report, “The State of Product Development and Hardware Design 2019.” However, I was not as surprised as they were to hear that the biggest problem in R&D is still complex processes,...
Migrating Safely And Securely To A Much Less Costly Cloud Center
One large client, given its size and varied business lines and information technology demands, relies on a variety of computing resources. For 12 years, it leveraged an SPK-managed private-cloud data center, based in San Jose. Over time, as happens with all data...
Solving CAD File Data Corruption By Looking Beyond the Obvious
One SPK client’s design engineering team was required to email CAD files to a technician to perform 3D printing. However, the CAD files were too large for regular email transmission. The designers manually converted each CAD file into a ZIP format for sending in one...
Helping a Company Achieve Financial Regulatory Compliance Out Of The Box
One SPK financial industry client found it needed to overcome complex cybersecurity compliance demands imposed by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the Securities Exchange Commission. To comply involved automatically collecting data about any...
Completing A Registry Fix For SolidWorks PDM In Hours — Not Weeks
An engineer for one of SPK’s clients needed to regularly use features in the SolidWorks PDM application, which enables the design of complex products. The engineer found his method to log-in to access special file folders had started to fail, and he couldn’t get the...
Keeping An AWS Web Stack Up To Date So A Client Could Continue To Innovate
As part of its support responsibilities for one client, SPK provides operational managed services for a core application. This application was running in an Amazon data center stack. SPK discovered that some custom code in the application was out of date, and could be...
The 12 Principles Behind the Agile Manifesto
Last March we introduced "The 12 Principles Behind the Agile Manifesto," a multi-part series that examined the key principles behind an effective agile development strategy. Over the course of this series we have introduced the principles, defined them, and...
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Agile Software Development and Atlassian Products (Jira, Bitbucket, Bamboo)
Unlocking the Power of Collaboration and Efficiency Tired of trying to overcome the pain points of traditional software development methods? Frustrated with slow project delivery? Struggling with team collaboration? Version control nightmares? Worry no more. You can...