Introducing DECK Scheduling
What good is planning without scheduling in the construction world? Scheduling is where the rubber hits the road - where the construction industry gets to work. Our DECK Pull Planning module is getting a surprising amount of traction for all sorts of reasons –...
Introducing DECK Pull Planning
“Pull Planning” is a planning mechanism used in construction to work backwards from a milestone and plan all of the tasks needed to complete that milestone. This effort is typically done in a “Big Room” (all the trades get together to talk through the tasks as they're...
A Better Way…
Medium-size companies are getting knocked back as they enter the world of enterprise software. Meet DECK DecisionWare – a better way!
Avoiding Bit Rot
This sounds like a story who’s first few paragraphs describe a dystopian society where Harrison Ford is hard at work fighting to keep artificial intelligence from infecting the food system or something. This post is far from that.
DECK DecisionWare – the IoT Data Container
IoT sensors and collection points (“Gateways” or “RTU’s” to use an old term) are rapidly being commoditized. Prices are plummeting while reliability and functionality increase. As we’ve seen time-and-time again when hardware moves to the commoditization phase, players...
We Don’t Offshore
Why do IT departments in large institutions continue to fall victim to wasting money and time with offshore software development companies? Why can a small software development firm like Spieker Point plant a flag on using extremely talented, well paid, local employees and win the race, even though their rates are often 4 times that of an offshore company?
The Alberta Association of Registry Agents launches new version of Renewal Reminder Service
EDMONTON, AB--(Marketwired - March 28, 2017) - The Association of Alberta Registry Agents (AARA) commissioned Edmonton-based software company, Spieker Point Inc. to rewrite their Renewal Reminder Service, the system currently delivering 50,000 monthly emails and SMS...
Improve the way work gets done, with Dynamic Case Management
Every day, tasks and activities are performed at organizations large and small. Sometimes these collections of tasks are very straightforward and highly predictable. But in reality, more often than not, unpredictable initiatives are required to complete the work. As a...
A Flexible and Faster Way to Manage Your Business
We are honoured to be featured in the magazine The Canadian Business Journal (CBJ), who covers issues, trends and current affairs relating to Canadian Businesses. In the March issue, we are highlighted as a featured service provider in the Technology section. In this...
Leveraging Big Data and Software as a Competitive Advantage
We were in the news! Spieker Point is honoured to be featured in the online magazine Global Benefits Vision (GBV), who covers global employee benefits. In the interview, we discussed our role in developing a Business Intelligence tool for MSH International called MSH...
The Robots Need Adult Supervision
We found KPMG's article "The robots have arrived. Are you ready?" to be a very good overview of the onset of intelligent software in InsurTech (technology in the insurance industry). But we wanted to explore this a bit more in this blog post. The Intelligent Software...
Scripting Inside of DECK DecisionWare
Overview: Customers are using DECK DecisionWare to pull together all data from their previously disconnected IT system to provide not only a dashboard representing the entire data ecosystem in the company, but also a central location for data warehousing, analytics,...