Organizations that are succeeding in the modern business world are focused on structuring their operation for the future, and the future is digital. For many, this means rebuilding their core processes and modernizing legacy systems to take advantage of new technology and put it to work to better achieve their goals. Human-based workflows become automated, and data management sees new levels of both complexity and seamless integration into the fabric of corporate ecosystems. This is legacy product digitization.
What Do Digital Transformation Services Look Like at PDG Consulting?
Custom Enterprise Software Development
Building custom tools and enterprise applications from the ground up offers unique flexibility and the opportunity to create bespoke solutions that support your business’ needs. At PDG Consulting, the strategy behind our digital transformation includes an in-depth analysis of barriers, data, processes, human aspects, and more so that we can deliver targeted legacy product digitization.
Data Management Solutions
With the right data at your fingertips, making big business decisions confidently is within reach. Your data is your competitive advantage, and utilizing software solutions that can play nice with Big Data, cognitive computing, and other emerging technologies can help your data work for you more efficiently.
Enterprise Mobile Software Development
Increasing productivity both in the office and in the field should be a top priority. With more employees completing tasks remotely, organizations need mobile applications that are compatible and accessible on multiple devices. PDG Consulting places a focus on mobile software development to help connect teams regardless of location.
Innovative Digital Technology
As new technologies emerge, digital transformation services grow to accommodate the changes to business processes. PDG supports our clients by leveraging these new legacy technologies, such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, cloud computing, Big Data, , and more.
Custom Enterprise Software Development
Building custom tools and enterprise applications from the ground up offers unique flexibility and the opportunity to create bespoke solutions that support your business’ needs. At PDG Consulting, the strategy behind our digital transformation includes an in-depth analysis of barriers, data, processes, human aspects, and more so that we can deliver targeted solutions.
Data Management Solutions
With the right data at your fingertips, making big business decisions confidently is within reach. Your data is your competitive advantage, and utilizing software solutions that can play nice with Big Data, cognitive computing, and other emerging technologies can help your data work for you more efficiently.
Enterprise Mobile Software Development
Increasing productivity both in the office and in the field should be a top priority. With more employees completing tasks remotely, organizations need mobile applications that are compatible and accessible on multiple devices. PDG Consulting places a focus on mobile software development to help connect teams regardless of location.
Innovative Digital Technology
As new technologies emerge, digital transformation services grow to accommodate the changes to business processes. PDG supports our clients by leveraging these new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, cloud computing, Big Data, , and more.
Why Choose PDG Consulting for Digital Transformation Services?
At PDG Consulting we recognize that our clients have diverse needs and require a flexible partner to help them grow. We can help you navigate the world of digital transformation and develop a modernized legacy solution that takes your organization into the future. To learn more about our digital transformation software, or legacy product digitization services, contact us today.
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Converged Ad Delivery
Overview
PDG spearheaded the multi-year effort by leading the project design, test management, and launch planning across DIRECTV and vendor teams. PDGC designed and developed the central measurement platform for reporting Hard Interconnect (HIC) ad placement success metrics back to the ad sales teams, as well as internal DIRECTV monitoring services and systems alerting. We previously led the Hard Interconnect deployment on DIRECTV Satellite and were looked to as experts on the DIRECTV STREAM rollout.
Tech Stacks
Go | Kubernetes | Elasticsearch | Kibana | Prometheus | Grafana | Sumologic | Couchbase | AWS S3 | AWS SQS | Kafka
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DIRECTV STREAM Content Provider DAI
Overview
We led the initiative by designing, integrating, and testing an upgraded technology stack from the Server Side Ad Insertion (SSAI) vendor used in the over-the-top streaming platform at DIRECTV. The design allowed us to synethically separate the National (Content Provider owned) and Local (Distributor / DIRECTV owned) avails within a single commerical break, and request for ad decisions for each avail separate from the Content Provider ad decision services and DIRECTV's own ad decision services.
This involved iterative cycles of functional, integration, client, and load testing with focus on platform stability and user experience once the new content provider ads entered the system. We project managed this effort across numerous cross-function DIRECTV teams, external vendors, and content providers.
Tech Stacks
Elasticsearch | Kibana | Splunk | New Relic | Yospace | INVIDI
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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
Overview
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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Enterprise Production Incentive Cockpit
Overview
PDG owned and project managed the development of the EPIC enterprise portal used to track Theatrical and Television production tax credits, both domestically and internationally. By integrating the business processes of Production Planning, Theatrical & Television Finance, Treasury, and Tax, EPIC has streamlined and optimized the way WB, HBO, and Turner manage production credits, creating increased visibility and control of the credit process.
Tech Stacks
SAP | Web UI | Enterprise Data Warehouse | .net
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Domestic and International TV Distribution
Overview
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)
Overview
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
Overview
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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TV Production Data Warehouse
Overview
For this project, PDG managed the data warehouse and report development while also providing functional and technical design. This included managing and making key design decisions for the development of the ETL process, data model, reports, and automated Excel applications. PDG also designed and managed the development of web and mobile-based Microstrategy production budget executive dashboards. The data warehouse provides consolidated cost and budget data from SAP and three external production accounting systems (Entertainment Partners, Cast and Crew, and Ease Accounting). This allows for the automation of numerous finance processes including the production recap (budget and forecast) consolidation and reporting process for over 100 users across all TV productions providing visibility to up-to-date forecasts through reports and executive dashboards.
Tech Stacks
SAP | Teradata | Informatica | Microstrategy | Cast & Crew | Ease Accounting | Excel
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SAP ERP Business Planning
Overview
PDG helped implement the automation and standardization of the FP&A processes for the Television Distribution group at NBCUniversal with the goal being to transition all their planning models in Excel into a comprehensive BPC Solution to speed up processes.
Tech Stacks
SAP BPC | SAP HANA | ABAP
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Digital Transformation
Overview
PDG has owned the entirety of Sesac’s Digital Transformation project from requirements gathering, UX design, application design, development, testing facilitation, and deployment. The project includes updating the Licensee, Affiliate, and public website experience to best-of-breed technologies and UX design. A full-stack implementation - everything from UX to backend, royalty management, song catalog management, payment processing, authentication, and ETL has been re-designed to provide a better user experience on a new tech stack at a lower run cost.
Tech Stacks
Angular | AWS | AWS Glue | PostgreSQL | Amazon Cognito | Braintree | Docker | Salesforce | Oracle EBS | DocuSign
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SAP BPC support
Overview
PDG provided application support for the implementation of SAP S4 Hana and BPC to fulfill STX’s financial accounting, forecasting, and consolidations needs. STX uses BPC to perform film, television, digital, and home entertainment P&L forecasting on both a cash and accrual basis.
Tech Stacks
SAP BPC 10.1 | SAP AO | S4 Hana
Project Name
SAP Digital Transformation
Overview
PDG provided SAP solution architecture, project management, and business intelligence experts for a full top to bottom digital and technology transformation project to implement best-of-breed 21st-century technologies in order to bring them into the digital age. Using a full SAP stack starting with their e-commerce website & mobile apps through to outbound logistics and everything in between, Jafra is changing the way their customers do business.
Tech Stacks
SAP Hybris | Vistex | SAP ECC | SAP EWM | SAP TM | SAP CRM | SAP PI | MS SQL Server / BI | Java | Spring Framework | IOS | Android
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SteelPro ERP
Overview
PDG helped to program manage and provide advisory services for the implementation of Cemco's industry-specific ERP, assisting with stabilizing the system from both a performance and utility perspective. PDG also organized the implementation and roll-out of the system to the various manufacturing plants nationwide.
Tech Stacks
SteelPro | Microsoft .NET | Microsoft SQL Server | Microsoft BI Stack | Angular | AWS
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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.
Tech Stacks
Java | Angular | Oracle SQL | Microsoft SQL Server | Microsoft IIS | SOAP | REST | Kafka | Hadoop | Splunk
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AT&T TV and HBO MAX Technical Support
Overview
PDG led the functional analysis, technical design, and implementation of web applications used by agents to support AT&T TV and HBO Max. For AT&T TV, PDG enhanced ReactJS based agent portals and Java/Spring microservices to pull in and render STB hardware and home internet diagnostics. These diagnostics were supplemented with technical support procedures, driven by Nokia SMP workflows. For HBO Max, similar agent portals were enhanced to support customer issues related to AT&T packages and offerings of HBO Max, eligibility rules, pricing, and provider-based authentication on the HBO Max app. These efforts were complemented with real-time analytics and reporting to gather insights on support case management and agent effectiveness.
Tech Stacks
ReactJS | Java | Nokia SMP | Teradata | Tableau
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AT&T TV Program Scheduling
Overview
PDG fully migrated the DIRECTV TV / VOD Guide metadata pipeline to the cloud. This included movie poster images, celebrity headshot, aggregated guide schedules & celebrity biographies over a satellite using Kafka, Couchbase, GoLang, & Kubernetes.
Tech Stacks
GoLang | Kubernetes | Amazon S3 | Couchbase NoSQL Database | Java | Kafka
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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