We are happy to have assisted SONY on three consultancy contracts totalling 17 man-months of effort.
In each case we have supplied one or more consultants to assist SONY on-site on an hourly or daily rate basis.

Contract 1

We assisted with "MediaBroker"; a distributed system employing FTP over a TCP/IP LAN to allow television broadcasters to store, schedule and retrieve programmes in digital (MPEG) format for digital broadcast. We worked mainly on the back-end business logic implementing algorithms in Visual C++ with STL and COM under Windows 2000, but also did some dialog-based GUI work using MFC.
Our work made use of XML (Microsoft DOM) for data persistence and also interacted with an Oracle 8i database.

Contract 2

We assisted with maintaining, bug fixing and extending SONY's "TX-Suite" and "MediaBroker" Digital Broadcasting and Scheduling products.
We worked on all aspects of the systems including C++ code, multi-threading, COM, ATL, SQL, GUI, XML and communication with an Oracle 8i database using OLE DB and ODBC.
Our staff also liaised directly with SONY's customers in Hong Kong and Singapore to resolve support issues.

Contract 3

One of our consultants assisted SONY in bringing a new Healthcare product to market.
Our consultant completed, extended and supported the multi-threaded C++ middleware layer interfacing between a C# front end (via COM and interops) and the hardware layer communicating with proprietary digital capture hardware, making use of our considerable experience with C++ and COM.
Our consultant made use of multi-threading under Windows XP, XML for data persistence (using MSXML4), the Standard Library (STL) and gained an understanding of MPEG-2 video and digital stills capture, and made further use of Visual Studio .NET 2003, WinCVS and JSPWiki, and used Doxygen extensively to document existing and new code.