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Convergent Multimedia Platform We worked with a mobile telecoms company to determine the feasibiity of a fixed/mobile Platform-as-a-Service play and helped to develop business case and go to market approaches. |
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Real Time Search We worked with a communications company to determine the future potential for Real Time Search in the B2C and B2B markets. |
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Transaction Messaging We worked with a large communications company to determine the potential for XML messaging in transactions in the emerging SOA/SaaS market, and helped to develop business case and go to market approaches. We see this as the execution route to the early Semantic Web. |
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Mobile multimdia study Market survey, business models and market entry strategy for global multimedia systems supplier to enter the Mobile TV / multimedia marketplace. |
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Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 strategy We designed the strategy and business models for a financial services company to move from a Web 1.0 environment to a Web 2.0 environment. Now moving into implementation phase |
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IPTV System Design We captured requirements and investigated options for new content management, materials management and workflow systems for an IPTV platform which is planned to have a large through-put of content. Automatic ingest of schedules, assets and products is an important capability in this sort of scenario. |
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New Interactive TV System We conducted a feasibility study and design of a new interactive TV broadcast system and Set Top Box, analysing several methods for synchronising the interactive and audio-visual content and exploring alternative STB architectures. |
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Open Source OSS We implemented custom provisioning logic using scripts running in a LAMP environment to create an OSS (operational support system) solution that was cost effective and maintainable by the customer. |
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Project Definition for a PVR We worked with a cable operator to capture their requirements, including the business, system integration and other technical requirements to define a project to deliver a new PVR. |
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TV Broadcasting Strategy for the European Parliament As part of a consortium, we analysed the issues that needed to be addressed to meet the parliament's objective of getting direct TV access to the electorate. This included the cost of reaching viewers within the 25 EU member states using various distribution platforms and the implications of working in all the official EU languages. |
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Meta Data Standards We worked with the ISAN International Agency on development of their standard and looked at how they might gain industry accepentce of the standard. |
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Conditional Access Strategy We defined the requirements and analysed the system integration issues for this European TV platform operator, then found a short-list of conditional access vendors and worked with the client to get the best system for the best price. |
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DVB Headend for Usability Lab We Designed, built and deployed an interactive TV broadcasting system for the audience research laboratory at the Interactive Television Research Institute, Murdoch University, Western Australia. The system supports DVB-S, DVB-T, DVB-C, OpenTV and MHP. |
| Multimedia Directory Service Design for a tier 1 telecom operator. We reviewed their existing projects in the space, and analysed the future of the Multimedia Directory and its contact and context aggregation role within Social Networks, Trust and Identity to define a set of future platform requirements for the company. platforms and how it would interact with multiple media types |
| Interactive Advertising Startup We analysed the likely market evolution of online interactive rich media advertising and helped define the business models and business plan to allow the company to obtain Venture Capital funding. |
| Turnaround of WebService e-Business company We were engaged to help restructure the company and redesign its business model and processes prior to it spinning out of its parent and obtaining additional funding. |
| Review of "Web 2.0" and related technologies, large R&D operation We reviewed the emerging research projects in the overall emerging "Web 2.0" arena - user generated content, new search, folksonomies, social networks, open source, interactive advertising, customer analytics and customer experience areas and defined areas of possible services to develop themselves, areas to collaborate and services to potentially spin out. |
| Mobile Advertising Startup We studied the likely market evolution of mobile based advertising and then helped define the business model, business plan and go-to-market strategy to allow the company to funding and build its services out. |
| Define Customer Service and Satisfaction requirements for large UK mobile operator Helped to define their requirements for ongoing customer service, and the outsourcing and re-sourcing of their existing operations |
| In-Sourcing services for large Mobile Telecoms operator Helped to re-define their requirements for their retail arm's ongoing customer service needs, and helped change the in-house services and also renegotiate contracts to change outsourced operations and bring bring some back in-house. |
