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10 Tips For Your Cloud Migration Strategy
Considering cloud migration to strengthen and grow your current on-prem capability? This blog is designed to help you identify a cloud migration strategy for your business. The cloud has become an essential element of digital transformation in businesses of all sizes....
How To Start Your Manufacturing Hybrid Cloud Migration
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...
Jira on Cloud: Case Study for Migrating ITSM Solutions
SPK supports an established credit union up against the ticking clock to migrate to Jira on cloud. Switching is critical before its Jira IT service-management application will no longer work on its local server. The need to move to Jira on Cloud Back in October 2020,...
User Notice for vCAD April 2022 Update for 2FA
vCAD Users, We're happy to announce that on 19-APR at 1700 PST, we will be releasing changes to the portal that will allow for 2-Factor Authentication. This means that you will be provisioned -new passwords- as we are leveraging a separate, more secure system for...
Atlassian Team ’22 Announcements – Part 1/2
Atlassian Team 2022 Overview If you didn’t have the opportunity to be in Las Vegas for Atlassian Team ’22 (or join via live stream), this blog post will cover the first half of what you missed - there were so many interesting things that we’ve had to break this up...
PDM SolidWorks Tutorial: Installation Manager
https://youtu.be/iUbfS29lzOo Introduction to the SolidWorks tutorial Hi, I'm Daniella. I am the SolidWorks PDM SME for SPK and Associates. Today I'll be going through a quick PDM SolidWorks tutorial on blank installation managers. How to resolve blank installation...
DevOps and CloudBees Accelerate Banking Innovation Part 2
In Part 1 of this article, we talked about the banking innovation industry threats and market conditions. We discussed how DevOps and CI/CD tools can help to mitigate threats. We also discussed why tools like Jenkins, CloudBees CD/RO and CloudBeesSoftware Delivery...
Virtual Engineering Workstations or Desktops for Design Engineers?
https://youtu.be/_j3JAfVakME Overview Here is the VLOG transcript for Chris McHale, CEO of SPK, and Director of Engineering Ed Chung discussing vCAD reviews, use cases, and whether desktop is better than virtual. Your host Chris McHale – Co-founder and CEO of SPK and...
Kubernetes – what is it?
https://youtu.be/surIUapPcOc Here is the VLOG transcript for our Kubernetes 101 looking to answer "Kubernetes, what is it?", and Kubernetes deployment. Hello, my name is Jeff Dusk. I’m part of the CloudBees core team and we're going to go over Kubernetes 101. Overview...
How To Reduce Engineering Licensing Fees
Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to reduce your annual engineering licensing fees, such as your SolidWorks license cost, while still providing application access to the same number of engineers? Isn’t it frustrating to have to pay for an expensive license for a user...
Latest White Papers
Maximizing the Impact of PLM with Windchill+
Get ready to dive into a guide that will change your PLM horizons this year. In this free eBook brought to you by PTC and SPK and Associates, we are sharing how to maximize the impact of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) with Windchill+. In this eBook, you’ll learn...











