TGP Customers
WindSpring, Inc.
WindSpring -
headquartered in San Jose California and Sidney Australia - owns
a patented technology that can miniaturize data (DMT) in a much more efficient
way than compression algorithms can do, avoiding the latency problems of dealing
with data compression and decompression and adding the benefit of being able to
manipulate, edit, search, display etc. the data in its miniaturized state.
This allows more storage capacity and performance for databases and many other
applications. TGP is helping WindSpring's management team develop customers
relations, strategic alliances, and business opportunities.
WindSpring was the recipient of the 2006 Frost & Sullivan Technology
Innovation Customer Value Enhancement Award in the North American navigation and
mobile phone market, and back in September TeleAtlas announced a major
collaboration agreement between WindSpring and Tele Atlas.
Contact TGP to obtain WindSpring white paper, DMT
performance results, and other technology information.
ZFMicro Solutions, Inc.
ZFMicro is
a privately held company in Palo Alto, Silicon Valley, California, founded in
2002 by David L. Feldman, the creator of the PC/104 IEEE standard and the 5-1/4"
form factor embedded Single Board Computer. The ZFx86 “PC-on-a-Chip" just 1.4”
square is the only chip with a built-in FailSafe™ mechanism for restoring
operation after a system failure.
The Intel x86 compatible ZFx86 chip runs most
PC software without modification and is bundled with a full PC BIOS and Linux
O/S - and it boots by simply applying power. TGP is helping ZFMicro meet the
need for reducing storage costs of its customer base of embedded-apps vendors
(Handhelds Scanners; Set-Top PCs; Point-of -Delivery Systems; P-O-S Systems;
Digital Video Recorder; Internet Kiosks; Transportation Systems & Fleet
Management; Gaming, etc.).
Contact TGP for more info.
Silicon Composers Incorporated (SCI)
TGP is helping Palo Alto-California-based
SCI find
partners interested in acquiring or licensing SCI new microprocessor technology,
a complete JAVA System on Chip that has been completely designed and tested and
it is now ready for manufacturing.
The R10™ chip was designed for the large and fast
growing mobile devices market and comes complete of software, tools,
and hardware. It is the only chip that can execute Java on
Hardware and it is much faster than any comparable chips on the market
today.
Contact TGP to obtain a
Technical Data Sheet.
Visto Corporation
Visto's Push Email Technology has been selected by Vodafone globally. TGP has conducted for Visto Corporation a usability study and developed best practices and guidelines to help the carriers offer Visto's product in their websites.
ePIT Systems
Debugged and resolved technical issues on the time-critical Japanese version of ePIT System, a provider of technology for Internet trading platforms. Fixed display and rendering problems of some Japanese characters, such as “証” and YEN sign. The Engineering team was therefore able to complete a demo for ePIT's customer in Japan. Reviewed ePit's code for ISO-2022-jp Japanese encoding, provided samples and guidelines for JIS development.
Handspring
The same founders of Palm that brought you the popular Palm handheld founded Handspring and developed the Visor handheld. TGP Consulting has helped Handspring recruit top-notch technical staff to augment the Visor's team at Handspring's headquarters. Advised Handspring management on Localization plans, budget and resources for Japanese and European markets. Handspring is now a division of Palm, Inc.
Palm, Inc. and PalmSource, Inc.
Managed the team that developed, shipped, marketed and distributed the very first Japanese Version of the Palm Professional edition in 1997. Successfully shipped the product on a very tight schedule and launched the product in Japan.
Most recently, Tiziana Perinotti helped Palm develop and distribute the first version of the Palm OS for the web for easy downloads and upgrades for Europe and Japan. She also reviewed Palm's user interface for next generation's handhelds. T.Perinotti was the program manager for the Italian version of Palm V first introduced in Italy Sept. 16, 99 where it won best design award. The Palm handheld is now permanently exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Moreover, she managed Palm teams as well as Palm external developers and vendors and developed a successful multilingual release of the latest Palm V and Palm III x products. As a result, Palm was able to ship multiple versions ahead of schedule and at the same time the US version shipped on February 1999. This was the very first time that Palm attempted and succeeded to concurrently develop a product for multiple locales. TGP has been consulting for Palm Inc. since its very first start, in 1996 prior to being acquired by US Robotics. TGP Consulting successfully completed the Spanish, Kanji, German and French releases of PALM PILOT 2.0 Professional edition and the main European versions of Palm 1MB Upgrade products on schedule. TGP developed Int'l features and product specifications for the localized versions of PILOT 2.0 Professional. In 1996 TGP localized PALM PILOT 1.0 product for the German market. TGP successfully managed the entire project and managed internal and external Palm Inc. staff, as well as the translation agency, freelancers, and other vendors and contractors used by the company. TGP also provided documentation localization into German and French, using TGP translators, to meet Palm Inc. aggressive schedule. TGP also developed two self-running French and German demos in Macromedia Director 4.0 for the German and French PILOT 1.0 products. The demos were shipped to Palm European retail channel to promote the localized versions of PILOT products in that marketplace.
Playback Media Corporation
TGP Consulting has been providing Playback Media Corporation, an innovative ASP/Internet-Video company for corporate education, with QA services for its video-based content and database infrastructure that can interoperate seamlessly with corporate intranets. For product/service preview see http://www.playback.com - recently acquired by MindLeaders.
Delivered Engineering Guidelines for Internationalizing Playback Media's Architecture into Western-European languages and Japanese. Delivered online courseware on "easy-to-localize" coding practices for double-byte languages on Windows/NT platform.
Remedy
TGP developed FY98 Int'l Business Plan for this leader of the Internal Help Desk market. TGP completed a study to assess Remedy's most profitable markets outside of the USA, and defined incremental revenues the company can obtain from developing localized products. TGP's report was based on an analysis of Remedy's historical data and sales projections as well as a competitive analysis for Remedy's Marketing and Sales Departments. TGP also provided strategic consulting on Remedy's latest products' design, architecture, features and market potential. This included an analysis of the latest Java and Java Script's developments, html 4.0 and dynamic html technologies. TGP has also delivered a plan for developing a toolkit to easily localize future Remedy's products.
Macromedia
TGP has worked on several Macromedia projects, including an analysis of Macromedia internal product development cycles to identify areas to be improved. The goal was to reduce the gap between ship dates of US products and ship dates of localized products (European and Asian languages). The study covered several product groups and departments (marketing, engineering, documentation, worldwide sales, technical support, manufacturing, subsidiaries, and localization groups both in San Francisco, San Mateo and Texas). TGP has outlined a plan to predictably guarantee the availability of localized products within 30 days from the US product release, thus increasing Macromedia international revenue. TGP has also provided Macromedia with international product revenue analysis models, guidelines for developing and testing world-ready Software, guidelines to write Software documentation that can be easily translated, and localization cost models for future projects.
Apple
TGP successfully completed a project for the International Software Support groups. The project included a study of existing processes, and their evolution, which required an employee survey at the headquarters in Cupertino California and Apple Cork, Ireland, and an analysis of the interdependencies of the various groups involved in Localization. TGP completed a detailed description of issues in existing International Software cycles, designed an action plan to solve existing problems and a strategy to implement a cost-effective Localization process for all languages Apple supports.
Texas Instruments
TGP Consulting has developed a training program on Internationalization and Localization for Japanese and Western-European languages and markets for software developers, testers, technical writers, marketing and operations managers at Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas.
HP - San Diego, California, USA Division
TGP Consulting has developed an intensive training program specific for the software development and quality assurance teams at HP San Diego, California. The program’s goal was to educate the engineering teams on Internationalization on the Microsoft Windows 95 and Windows NT platforms. The program was designed for quickly coming up to speed on the Win32 National Language Support (NLS) API. The attendees acquired a deep understanding of the extensive support Win32 provides for all languages and learnt where to find additional information to meet particular requirements. Coding examples for Japanese and other complex writing systems, exercises, demos and the new TGP Courseware material for the SW Industry were provided along with extensive notes, slides and additional references.
Winnov
The first two phases of a 3-phase project have already been implemented. TGP has analyzed Winnov’s existing applications and evaluated the level of built-in international support for Japanese. TGP has developed an Int’l Software Checklist to identify problems and recommend solutions. TGP has customized on-site technical training for Winnov engineering and testing groups, that have learnt how to architect internationalization in the base products. Thus localization of future Winnov applications can be done more efficiently. No time and money is wasted to retrofit US products, since Winnov SW is now developed to meet international requirements from the very start.
Netscape
TGP has designed and completed a seminar for Netscape Courseware groups to internationalize the process of developing training materials. Attendees have acquired the fundamental skills of how to develop courseware SW, including multimedia content, and documentation that can be easily localized in a variety of languages, including Japanese and other Oriental languages. The seminar is also designed to teach how to qualify localization vendors that meet the groups needs, and establish a long-term business relationship with 3rd party localizers.
Oracle
TGP has developed a seminar tailored to Oracle Worldwide Education and Courseware. TGP has provided on-site training and guidelines to identify criteria to select translation agencies, and improve business relationships with its existing translation vendors. TGP Workshop focused on how to find translation vendors that met Oracle’s needs, how to measure vendors performance, how to set up a successful working environment with localization agencies and how to reduce localization time and cost for simple and complex writing systems.
GeoGraphix
TGP has completed a seminar for the Engineering and Testing organization at GeoGraphix, a subsidiary of Landmark Graphics Corporation. The seminar’s goal was to present Internationalization issues when developing Software for an Int’l audience, and techniques on how to avoid common Software development mistakes, especially when developing software for double-byte languages. The Organization has learnt how to utilize the International support built into Windows/NT environment, and build world-ready Software from the very start, thus reducing the risk of building product features that cannot be localized for other markets. The focus was on European and Japanese languages.
I/PRO
TGP has provided localization services for I/PRO cutting-edge WEB site in Japanese, French, and German languages concurrently and met I/PRO stringent deadline.
TGP Customers Contact Information:
- Mark Arman, VP Marketing
- Parimal Sheth, COO & VP Engineering
- David L. Feldman, CEO, President
Silicon Composers Incorporated (SCI)
- George A. Nicol Ph. D., Founder and President
- Joe Lachoff, Sr. UI Designer
- Sanjay Kamble, VP Marketing
- Fern Bachman, Jr., Director, System Software
- Franco Robba, formerly Int'l SW Support Manager
- Merle Tenney, formerly Int'l Technology Evangelist, after leading the Int'l Engineering group at Claris
- Sanjiva Nath,
formerly ePIT VP of Engineering, now VP at
Trigo
Technologies Inc.
GeoGraphix, a subsidiary of Landmark Graphics Corporation
- David Hicks, formerly VP Engineering Department
- Christi Walter, Eng. Dept.
- Ed Colligan, Handspring's co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, former Marketing Executive at Radius and currently President and CEO of Palm, Inc.
- Rob Haitani, former Senior Product Marketing Manager at Handspring and Radius, and currently at Palm, Inc.
- Stan McDaniel, R&D Software Project Manager, HP San Diego, California
- Jimmie Zheng, Software Design Engineer, HP San Diego, California
I/PRO (Internet Profile Corporation)
- James Drew, Product Marketing Manager, web analytics division of TopicalNet Company, San Francisco, California.
- Norm Meyrowitz, Executive VP of Engineering, San Francisco, California
- Fred Eshagh, formerly Technical Courseware Design Manager
- Rick Elliott, formerly Web Marketing Manager
- Thomas Kelly, formerly VP Worldwide Education, now with Cisco
- Toby Emerson, Oracle Education Group Manager
- Kristie Schmitt Berg, former Oracle Education Group Manager, currently Marketing Director, Strategic Accounts at Zaudhaus
Palm, Inc. and PalmSource, Inc.
- Dan Keller, former Engineering/Platform division at Palm, Inc.
- Marian Cauwet, former VP of Engineering at Palm, Inc. and PowerUp!SW Corp./Learning Company, currently VP of Engineering at Tapwave, Inc.
- Nicole Coleman, former Globalization Program Lead, PalmSource, Inc., now Terminology Manager at PayPal.
PowerUp!SW Corporation/Learning Company
- Julie Wainwright, former VP of Marketing and Sales at PowerUp!SW Corporation/Learning Company, and former CEO of Pets.com, currently a VC at Hummer Winblad
- Marian Cauwet, former VP of Engineering at palmOne, Inc. and PowerUp!SW Corp./Learning Company, currently VP of Engineering at Tapwave, Inc.
- Ed Colligan, Handspring's co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, former Marketing Executive at Radius, and currently President and CEO of Palm, Inc.
- Rob Haitani, former Senior Product Marketing Manager at Radius, and currently at Palm, Inc.
- Rebecca Ray, former Senior Product Marketing Manager
- Paul Gorodyansky, Senior Internationalization Engineer
- Jim Watkins, Manager, Software Center of Excellence, Texas Instruments, Educational and
Productivity Solutions, Dallas, Texas
Phone: 972-917-1694
- John Lucena, former Software Author at Verity Inc.
- Amer Deeba, former Software Author at Verity, currently VP of Marketing at Qualys Inc.
- Anthony Bettencourt, President of Verity
- Olivier Garbe, Winnov President
Phone: 408-733-9500
