At PDG Consulting, our business planning software services include software customizations such as revenue pipelines, business intelligence reporting, financial accounting, forecasting, and consolidations needs—even integrating existing sales or distribution systems with custom data warehouses and forecasting applications to allow more fluid business planning. Our business planning technology solutions enable our clients' organizations to focus on their actual business performance while we handle the internal technology behind the scenes.
Our Business Planning Services
Advanced Business Intelligence
Our clients have requirements that involve improving planning, forecasting, budgeting, and consolidations needs, that require the implementation of business intelligence reporting and business planning software services. PDG will partner with the client to demonstrate how business intelligence can help improve business decisions by analyzing and illustrating the data within the right context.
Increase Revenue
Our customizable software provides our clients with the ability to measure their revenue as well as identify issues and improve interactions within a single platform. PDG has helped to drive the pipeline forward and increase revenue figures across the board.
Improve Planning & Forecasting
Using Java EE, Spring, Angular 7, DevExtreme, Active MQ, Oracle DB, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SSAS, and more, our team applies our business planning software services to develop advanced business intelligence reporting capabilities, and enable more streamlined decision making based on extensive data collection and organization. This eliminates guesswork and improves the performance amongst teams that handle large quantities of data that require finite analytical tools for optimized forecasting and, ultimately, increased growth.
Why Choose PDG for Business Planning Services?
We understand the complex business processes, accounting needs, and operational requirements of our customers. Leverage our over a decade of hands-on experience with the most advanced technologies being used in our ever-changing world. Our approach to software development is Agile and divergent and enables us to create a unique experience for our clients.
Contact us today to learn more about how our business planning services can adapt to the needs of your business and help you transform your organization from an "as is" state to a "to be" state.
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Data Consolidation and Visualization
Overview
PDG was tasked with digitalizing and consolidating data from dozens of source systems across the company into a centralized Enterprise Data Warehouse, including the creation of a robust data visualization and analytics front-end through Qlik Sense. PDG provides service at every level — from requirements gathering, data consolidation gap-fit analysis, and custom web solutions for business user data maintenance — to data modeling and ETL, Visualization development in Qlik Sense, and user onboarding and adoption training.
Tech Stacks
MS SQL Server | Angular | Qlik Sense | SSIS | S3
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Tax Process Optimization
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PDG owned and project managed the development of the EPIC TPO project, a domestic and international tax processing application that consumes data from SAP-BW, applies a set of tax business rules, and produces book to tax adjustments based on differences in GAAP and tax law. The system also lets business users to make additional topside or other adjustments to produce Warner Bros final pre-tax income.
Tech Stacks
SAP | Web UI | Enterprise Data Warehouse | .net
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Sales Analytics and Data Insights
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PDG helped Sony's Distribution Sales Analytics and Data Insights team democratize advanced analytics by creating alternative reporting tools to support sales, sales planning, sales strategy, and marketing areas. PDG designed and developed the analytical reporting database, created the BI data pipelines from source to end user, and supported the development of various business data models and KPI's that are socialized through various reporting tools and dashboards. By developing key metrics and normalizing data across territories and markets, the data is more easily accessible — empowering each group supported with shared insights and analyses.
Tech Stacks
Teradata | Alteryx | Tableau
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Domestic and International TV Distribution
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PDG redesigned CBS’s existing PDS rights management system and implemented a custom title availability reporting system utilizing a custom version of PDG’s CCAE software suite. Licensing modules were redesigned to support new contract paradigms and rights including complex license carveouts, and non-linear catch-up rights in numerous forms.
Tech Stacks
C# | Microsoft .NET 4.5 | Angular 6 | Microsoft SQL Server
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Revenue Pipeline Management (RPM)
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PDG supported the analysis and requirements gathering processes along with owned the technical design, development, and worldwide rollout of this custom system. RPM integrates existing sales & distribution systems with a custom data warehouse and forecasting application in order to increase television sales by providing more information about product availability. The distribution system handles all licensing, customer, fee, and shipping information for 300,000+ titles and thousands of concurrent deals. RPM is used by hundreds of sales planners and finance users worldwide.
Tech Stacks
Java EE | Spring | Angular 7 | DevExtreme | Active MQ | Oracle DB | Microsoft SQL Server | Microsoft SSAS
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Film & Television Distribution
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To provide near real-time contract validation and availability reporting, PDG installed its cloud-based CCAE application suite to augment Fox’s contract management system and manage its multi-billion-dollar distribution business. Additionally, enterprise messaging services were built out to connect product, rights, release, and scheduling metadata throughout the organization.
Tech Stacks
PDG CCAE v3.0 – Java | Spring | Angular 6 | Kafka | PostgreSQL | AWS EC2 | Splunk
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Microsoft Business Intelligence
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The PDG team successfully built and demoed a POC within 2 months resulting in the implementation of a BI solution that improves the performance and functionality of CEMCO's reporting capabilities involving over 70 reports.
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Microsoft SQL Server | SSIS | SSAS
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Mulesoft Migration
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PDG is providing project management and integration expertise to define the overall project roadmap and manage a team of developers through the assessment of hundreds of microservices supporting critical sales and service functions of ATT.com to identify performance and design improvement opportunities. The objective is to enhance the overall customer experience and increase sales by improving performance, reliability, and time to deliver new features. An additional output of the assessment is to provide a Mulesoft onboarding/migration strategy for the microservice-based APIs to support API discoverability and reusability across the enterprise.
Tech Stacks
Java | Spring | Node.js | Kafka | Cassandra NoSQL Database | Redis | Mulesoft
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DIRECTV Advanced Advertising
Overview
PDG designed and oversaw a complete re-architecture of the DIRECTV satellite advertising platform, which more than doubled the number of ads that could be targeted to customers and brought down the amount of required lead time to play out a targeted ad from 24 hours to under 4 hours. This re-architecture enabled DIRECTV to enter the advertising interconnect managed by Comcast/NCC which doubled DIRECTV's yearly advertising revenue. PDG also designed and developed two critical applications in the advertising platform and built out real-time alerting and reporting dashboards used by the 24/7 advertising operations teams. PDG continues to lead incremental architectural changes for the satellite platform and is also assisting in architecting the next-generation advertising platform for streaming services such as DIRECTV NOW.
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Java | Angular | Oracle SQL | Microsoft SQL Server | Microsoft IIS | SOAP | REST | Kafka | Hadoop | Splunk
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DIRECTV Advanced Business Planning
Overview
PDG built a Business Intelligence tool that provides high-value dashboards to ATT Advertising business stakeholders as well as Tech Ops. It allows users to drill down and slice and dice across huge volumes of historical ad performance and customer behavior events. In addition to creating an actionable, centralized data lake for all things ad-related, its main value resides in providing predictive algorithms that leverage big data and Spark distributed computing, which allows users to visualize the predicted performance of upcoming advertising campaigns.
Tech Stacks
Spark | Scala | Spring | AWS Glue | Amazon QuickSight | Amazon EMR | Amazon S3 | Redis | AWS CloudFormation
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Farm IP
Overview
PDG is building a platform to track the movements of grains (soybeans) on farms to ensure crops are segregated between individual farms. This includes developing a complete website to enable user and farm setup along with building and deploying prototypes of Bluetooth LE / LoRa GPS tracking devices.
Tech Stacks
Spring | React | MySQL | AWS IoT (MQTT) | Embeddable BLE Platform