Evolution is the only constant. In the current business environment this has never been more true, and out-of-the-box technology solutions simply cannot keep up with our ever-changing world. Having the ability to adapt your internal applications to meet the specific demands of your industry’s ecosystem is absolutely critical to the success of your business. That's where custom software application services come into play.
PDG Custom Solutions
As recognized leaders in custom application software development, our team of expert technologists and engineers provide individualized services through the design and implementation of cutting-edge custom bespoke software solutions. Whether you are looking to implement SAP development and other ERP services, migrate to a cloud platform, re-organize your internal operations with a CRM system, or launch web services—there are varied and specific challenges that you will face. As a full-service, custom software application developer, PDG Consulting will assist you from start to finish, and help guide you through every phase of your project implementation.
Programming Languages
Many of our clients count on our expertise in these and other languages to help drive user behavior and improve upon customer interfaces:
- Javascript
- nodeJS
- Polymer
Programming Languages
Many of our clients count on our expertise in these and other languages to help drive user behavior and improve upon customer interfaces:
- Javascript
- nodeJS
- Polymer
Architecture and Infrastructure Technologies
Still others rely heavily on our deep experience with further technologies that support their architecture and infrastructure:
- Java
- C#
- Ruby
- Python
- GoLang
Architecture and Infrastructure Technologies
Still others rely heavily on our deep experience with further technologies that support their architecture and infrastructure:
- Java
- C#
- Ruby
- Python
- GoLang
Why Choose PDG for custom application development and SAP development?
At PDG, we understand that the digital world and your business are constantly evolving and there are many paths to success. Leverage our bespoke software expertise and Agile development approach, and let us help you find the right one. Contact us today to learn more about how we use different technologies to build applications and personalize software development integrations that fit your internal business process and operational needs, so you can accomplish your ROI goals.
Project Name
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
Project Name
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
Project Name
Apple TV+ Studio Systems - Deal Tracker
Overview
PDG drives the development, implementation and design of a new Deal Tracking system which is the technological heartbeat of the Apple TV+ production process. It services users from finance, legal, creative and business affairs departments — acting as the connective tissue between many of these groups. The application manages the deal making, negotiating, and closing processes required for any studio to produce content. PDG leverages its M+E industry expertise to provide timely and comprehensive solutions to Apple TV+ stakeholders.
Tech Stacks
NodeJS | VueJS | Elastic Search | Oracle RDBMS | Kubernetes | AWS EKS | Kafka | Cypress
Project Name
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
Project Name
B2B Asset & Content Management
Overview
PDG developed a Digital Asset Management and Content Management system for three different business divisions to offer a common storefront for ViacomCBS distribution customers to browse digital content and access marketing/promotional materials. PDG owned and managed the design, development, implementation, and QA of all new and upgraded application components. This includes creating APIs to migrate legacy assets to OTMM (OpenText Media Management), building a modern Security Authorization module, and building a web interface with modernized UI/UX.
Tech Stacks
ASP.NET Core | Angular 10 | Microsoft SQL Server | Salesforce/PARDOT
Project Name
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
Project Name
Music Rights Management
Overview
PDG designed and developed the enterprise web application, site flow, and customer-facing storefront for the Magic music rights management system. Magic tracks all publisher and master rights that a studio owns for original scores for its films and television shows. Cue management for features and television episodes allows potential 3rd party licensees to easily find music heard in a production and ensures producers have a comprehensive view of all music used in any production – including licensed songs and/or scores. The core engine also drives an external licensing platform where outside filmmakers can license the original music written for the project.
Tech Stacks
Java | Spring | Oracle | Hibernate | JPA | jQuery
Project Name
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
Project Name
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
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 its customers do business.
Tech Stacks
SAP Hybris | Vistex | SAP ECC | SAP EWM | SAP TM | SAP CRM | SAP PI | MS SQL Server / BI | Java Sprint | IOS | Android
Project Name
SteelPro
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
.NET | SQL | MS BI stack | Angular | AWS
Project Name
Microsoft Business Intelligence
Overview
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.
Tech Stacks
Microsoft SQL Server | SSIS | SSAS
Project Name
Mulesoft Migration
Overview
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
Project Name
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
Project Name
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
Project Name
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
Project Name
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
Project Name
Farm IP
Overview
PDG is building a platform to track assets on farms. This includes developing a complete website to enable user and asset setup along with building and deploying prototypes of mobile and embedded systems.
Tech Stacks
Spring | React | MySQL | AWS IoT