SCOTTS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA - The Women Presidents Organization (WPO), a dynamic and diverse collective of women entrepreneurs from around the world, is proud to announce SPK and Associates as the newest member of the Silicon Valley Chapter. WPO Chapters bring women...
Small and Medium Sized Businesses
Modernizing Your Legacy Tech
Modernizing legacy systems means businesses can improve efficiency, enhance security, increase agility, drive better customer experience and more. Fundamentally, modernizing old, archaic, outdated, or just plain niggly systems can drive operational efficiency. That's...
Top 3 Tips To Protect Code For Developers
When it comes to knowing how to protect code for developers, it’s as valuable as gold in an old safe. The risks are high as attackers becoming wiser, and that precious code is at risk from evolving technology too. That’s why in this article, we’ll share a...
The Top Reasons to Pick Premium Atlassian Cloud Plans
As I engage with clients in their journey to Atlassian Cloud, I am often asked about capabilities that differentiate the different Atlassian Cloud plans. “What’s the difference between Standard, Premium, and Enterprise?” Because there has been a theme to the...
Latest Atlassian Product News from Q4 2022
As we do every quarter, SPK’s team reviews the latest Atlassian product updates. In this blog post, we’ll cover announcements that happened between September 2022 and December 2022. As you probably know, Atlassian updates their Cloud and on-premise products on a...
Do I Need An MSP (Managed Services Provider)?
I’m Chris McHale, CEO and co-founder of SPK and Associates. Over the years, I’ve watched businesses grow. And as they do, they sometimes begin to wonder, “do I still need an MSP?” Today, I want you to discover why businesses, regardless of size, need an MSP. You see,...
Are You Using The Top 4 IT Leadership Skills?
Are you looking to transform yourself from an IT service provider "industry-follower" to, an IT leader? Then, you’ll probably find yourself wondering, “What are the best IT leadership tips for service providers?”The 2022 MSP Summit, held on September 13 - 15, 2022,...
vCAD Accelerates Engineering for Small and Medium Business
Since releasing virtual CAD (vCAD) to the market in January 2022, SPK and its customers have discovered a realm of benefits and use cases. Virtual CAD has become the preferred platform for many customers already. It allows businesses to capitalize on a gig economy,...
SPK and Associates CEO Honored for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I)
Christine McHale, CEO and Co-Founder of SPK and Associates, is among the honorees on the 2022 Channel Futures DE&I 101 list. The list recognizes individuals from a wide spectrum of multicultural backgrounds. These individuals are driving diversity, equity and...
The Best 5 Power BI Training Tips In 2022
This short blog post is designed to show you the top five PowerBi training tips and tricks from our experts at SPK and Associates. Microsoft Power BI is constantly evolving. More importantly, Power BI enables you to turn data into business opportunities. So, keeping...
SPK and Associates Partners with Greenlight Guru
Accelerating Product Development to Improve Patient Outcomes SPK and Associates, a leading woman-owned technology consulting company, today announced its partnership with Greenlight Guru, pioneer of the only dedicated Medical Device Success Platform (MDSP) to...
Channel Futures MSP 501 List 2022
IT services are in demand now more than ever. Therefore, being recognized on the Channel Futures MSP 501 list is a notable achievement. Firstly, the MSP 501 list accredits managed service providers (MSP’s) as innovative leaders in the IT technology market. Secondly,...