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Sony, Inc.

Sony Corporation is an electronic products manufacturing company which is based out of Japan. Their main organizational engagements include designing, manufacturing, and selling video, audio, and communication products. Sony is also engaged with the providing of banking and credit finance services; things that they are certainly not as popular for. Sony is a corporate brand that has deep roots in the electronics world, and is present in every continent of the world. One of their quality process implementations that most recently developed is something called “QlikView.” According to a recent article, "With QlikView, we were able to achieve a level of visibility into business dynamics never seen before for users" (SDG Group).

This new implementation of QlikView will help created within the different business areas, a culture which is based on the companies key KPI. It will used pre-defined reports in order to generate both graphic and dynamic reports. These reports will lead Sony to a new frontier of forecasting, and being able to provide a better product more efficiently and effectively than ever before. As far as for internal operations at Sony, this new partnership will allow Sony to focus more on their customers desires, and less on the business processes. The ability to spend more time honing in on the needs and desires of their customers will certainly create a much healthier financial situation for Sony Inc. Recently, Sony has seen great losses in the US and Europe due to the economic state of society. In recent reports, up to 75% of Sony’s revenue comes from these two entities.

Annotated Bibliography

Sebastian, S., Kalyanasundaram, R., &Shankavaram, S. (2013). U.S. Patent Application 13/918,784.

Annotated Bibliography: An intermediate gateway is positioned between a client device and a mobile application service provider. The intermediate gateway can assist in securing and managing accesses from a mobile application on the client device to the mobile application service provider. The intermediate gateway can store a client device identification associated with the client device, which can be used to authenticate the client device. Other parameters can also be used in device authentication.

Sony gets ahead of the market thanks to the implementation of QlikView by SDGMon, 10/10/2011. (n.d.). SDG Group. Retrieved April 7, 2014, from http://www.sdggroup.com/en/news/sony-gets-ahead-market-thanks-implementation-qlikview-sdg

Annotated Bibliography: Sony, one of the leading consumer electronics manufacturers, has chosen the solution implemented by SDG Consulting, based on the QlikView platform - technology leader in the Business Discovery for user-driven Business Intelligence - to create a fast, reliable and able to simultaneously handle a large number of analyses, for its branches in Spain and Portugal.

Kravitz, B. (2002). U.S. Patent No. 6,397,385. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Annotated Bibliography: A method and apparatus is provided for upgrading software, or a portion thereof, on a continuously running system, while the system is operating. A base set of software is built which contains a reserved memory area in its memory architecture. Upgrade source files are built into the reserved memory area. The upgrade images are extracted out and converted into loadable upgrade images. A header indicates where the upgrade is to be downloaded in the system and also identifies the location in the reserved memory area at which the upgrade is to be stored in the relevant component of the system. The upgrade is downloaded into the respective reserved memory area in the memory storage devices in the respective components in the system. The downloadscan be performed while the system is operating because the reserved memory area does not contain live code. The upgrades are activated or deactivated using a jump instruction sequence.

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