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Using DevOps and Cloud to rapidly respond and scale
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...
Reducing Software Deployment Time and Necessary Engineer Effort through Custom Automation and UI Implementation
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...
Leading Medical Device Company Achieves Major Efficiency Boost by Utilizing SPK’s SolidWorks CSV Expertise
Background Apublicly traded medical device manufacturer with 33,000 employees and several international locations approached SPK and Associates for assistance in streamlining their validation processes. The validation process took months, but the customer wanted...
Increasing Engineering Productivity and Profitability via a True Cloud-Based SolidWorks/PDM Implementation
How SPK was able to unify globally dispersed engineering teams to work, and communicate, in real-time. THE CLIENTA leading medical device manufacturer was facing a problem common to firms with growing engineering operations: As their product-development team grew,...
Improving Accessibility and Accuracy of Engineering Documents Via a Cloud-Based SolidWorks to MasterControl Connector
How SPK successfully improved a client’s engineering productivity and quality by creating a connected business system, leveraging separate, complementary platforms. Bridging TechnologiesMedical device manufacturing is a highly regulated industry. Even the slightest...
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...
Optimal Continuous Integration Best Practices (Part 3)
November, 2021 As I noted in “Continuous Integration Best Practices—Part 1” and “Continuous Integration Best Practices—Part 2,” there are 10 best practice principles associated with Continuous Integration. In the previous articles, we covered the first six. In this...
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...
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...
Latest White Papers
10 Success Factors of Future-proof Requirements Management
Codebeamer is the most Agile Application Management platform on the market. It’s scalable, integrated and supports collaboration - all while offering powerful features across the entire lifecycle. Staying ahead requires more than just cutting-edge tools—it demands a...