Managing Risk – Data Security in the Cloud
During the Spieker Point Inc. open house, Walter Schwabe from FusedLogic TV interviews Steve Hole a software architect with Spieker Point about Managing Risk - Data Security in the Cloud. Walter Schwabe: "We're here at...
The Importance of Business Analytics
During the Spieker Point Inc. open house, Walter Schwabe from FusedLogic TV interviews Brent Collingwood from the University of Alberta School of Business (#UAlbertabcom) about the importance of business analytics. Walter...
Un·bun·dle (verb) – Defined
“Unbundling” of software is the growing trend in business to stay away from the monolithic Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software in favour of “smaller”, cost effective software applications that effectively run one or two functions of the business. Think about...
KPI’s | Exploring DECK our Semi-custom Software Platform
In part 1 of this blog series, we looked at DECK and it’s communications system. In part 2, we explored DECK’s Scheduler For Services module. In part three this week, we’re looking at the KPIs that DECK has “out of the box”. Flavours KPIs come in a few different...
Project Rescue For The Wrong Reason
We’re tired of doing Project Rescue services for the wrong reason. “Project Rescue” is a service we provide. We take over software projects started by another vendor that have gone off the rails for various reasons. We typically reset the requirements, restart...
Scheduler for Services | Exploring DECK our Semi-custom Software Platform
This is the second blog in the series that explores the modules inside of Spieker Point’s DECK web application framework. DECK has two different scheduling modules - one for scheduling manpower and equipment (DECK's Scheduler for Services), and the second for...
Messaging | Exploring DECK our Semi-custom Software Platform
This blog post will be the first of a short series taking a look at the modules inside of DECK. We hope to get your creative juices flowing on what the module might help with in your business. DECK is a base web application which Spieker Point built to speed...
What is a Business Process?
"What exactly is a business process?" "What is a business process vs a manufacturing process?" "What do you mean by process automation?" We get these questions quite a bit. The general definitions are: Business Process is a collection of related activities or task to...
A Guide to Business Analytics: Three Buckets
We are sure that you've read, heard or talked about analytics at some point in the past year or two. It’s a hot topic. But the context of how it’s referred is anything but consistent. The world of business analytics may seem like deep, open waters, but it would make...
A Hat Tip to AHS Security
On May 8th, 2014, we attended the Alberta Network for Health Information eXchange (ANHIX). There, Robert Martin, the Chief Information Security Officer for Alberta Health Services (AHS) presented a session called “Health Information in the Cloud.” In my opinion, this...
Security: When apps are attacked
Many years ago, I had a friend who's father was a marine biologist, spending his career doing research in Canada's frozen north. At dinner one night, Ian (the father) told a story about how he and a couple other researchers set up base camp on a large ice flow in the...
Efficient Coding Practices: How DECK Saves Money
In our last post, we showed the importance of a strong development language & framework for enterprise software development. In this post we're going to explore how Spieker Point leveraged that development technology into a web application framework (called DECK)...