Case Studies

One measure of a company’s success is the repeat business it acquires from long-time customers.  Competition is fierce in the software services industry, yet The Sombers Group has succeeded in acquiring new customers and challenging projects while at the same time retaining a loyal base of clients. 

Below are case studies defining our role on a wide variety of projects.  Please visit here often for new case studies from the  archives of The Sombers Group. 

Amtrak,  in a joint venture with the Long Island Railroad, retained The Sombers Group to build a new train control system to manage train traffic into and out of its busy Penn Station in New York City…  

Autotote Race Track Totalizer - Autotote is a leading supplier of racetrack totalizator systems worldwide. The Sombers Group was assigned the task of building a new generation of these "tote" systems for Autotote...

Autotote Lottery System - Following the successful deployment of their new tote systems developed by Sombers, Autotote decided to enter the state lottery marketplace. They asked The Sombers Group to adapt their new tote system to the needs of state lotteries...

Bowne is one of the country's largest financial printers. Their business had become so complex that they needed a much more powerful method for tracking the business documents under review and in process. This task was given to The Sombers Group...

Competitive Media Research provides reports on TV advertising to agencies, clients, and TV stations. To replace their expensive and error-prone manual monitoring methods, they included The Sombers Group in the development team for their new automatic recognition system...

Exchange Lab is a provider of technology for new and exotic forms of trading.  The Sombers Group has been active in the development of this technology, from systems architecture through performance modeling and reliability analyses to implementation...

Federal Express Logistics Services provides third party warehousing and delivery services for manufacturers and catalog houses. Periodically, it released software updates for its large Tandem systems and was experiencing an unacceptable failure rate for its releases. The solution was to incorporate automatic regression testing into its release process.

FTC Communications (now part of Wireless and Cable) is a common carrier providing cable and telex services to third world countries. The Sombers Group provided them with their first computerized message switches to support these services...

McGraw-Hill, a major publisher, wanted to move into electronic publishing of time-critical documents by transmitting them over the unused vestigial sideband of commercial FM radio stations. They decided to use a message processing system developed by The Sombers Group for Time Magazine to organize and control this traffic...

NetWeave, developed by The Sombers Group, was one of the first middleware products in the marketplace. Installed at hundreds of sites worldwide, it remains today one of the most flexible and high performance middleware products available...

Pegasus was a pioneer in the field of communications by bouncing microwave signals off of frequently occurring meteor bursts in our atmosphere. They wanted to use this for mobile communications with trucks and retained The Sombers Group to build a network control center for this system...

QEI is a long time supplier of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems to the utility communities. Wanting to upgrade from expensive and outdated minicomputer systems, they came to The Sombers Group for the development of a new microprocessor product line...

Tandem and the Tandem community (now the HP NonStop server community) have been active parts of Sombers' experience. The dozens of Tandem projects completed by Sombers have included many full implementations, architectural designs, testing, performance studies, and reliability analyses...

Time Magazine maintains a network of correspondents around the world. These correspondents must be in constant communications with their editorial staff in New York. The Sombers Group was asked to build a new editing, data base, and communication system to support the collecting and editing of stories for the magazine...